# Neutrino physics with dark matter detectors

## TL;DR

Dark matter detectors will soon detect astrophysical neutrinos, offering new insights into neutrino physics and astrophysics, and potentially revealing new physics such as light mediators and sterile neutrinos.

## Contribution

This paper reviews the potential of dark matter detectors to explore neutrino physics and astrophysics, highlighting their ability to identify new physics beyond current experiments.

## Key findings

- Detection of astrophysical neutrinos will complement existing neutrino experiments.
- Dark matter detectors can probe light mediators and sterile neutrinos.
- Neutrino detection will provide new insights into astrophysical sources.

## Abstract

Direct dark matter detection experiments will soon be sensitive to neutrinos from astrophysical sources, including the Sun, the atmosphere, and supernova. This sets an important benchmark for these experiments, and opens up a new window in neutrino physics and astrophysics. The detection of these neutrinos will be complementary to accelerator and reactor-based experiments which study neutrinos over the same energy range. Here we review the physics and astrophysics that can be extracted from the detection of these neutrinos, highlighting the potential for identifying new physics in the form of light mediators that arise from kinetic mixing and hidden sectors, and $\sim$ eV-scale sterile neutrinos. We discuss how the physics reach of these experiments will complement searches for new physics at the LHC and dedicated neutrino experiments.