Detecting Beyond the Standard Model Interactions of Solar Neutrinos in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Detectors

TL;DR

This paper predicts how low-threshold dark matter detectors can detect solar neutrinos beyond the Standard Model, constraining new interactions and mediators with improved sensitivity over current experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of non-standard neutrino interactions in low-threshold detectors, providing new constraints on mediator properties and neutrino magnetic moments.

Findings

Low-threshold detectors can improve constraints on vector mediators by up to two orders of magnitude.

Scalar mediator constraints can be improved by about one order of magnitude.

Predictions include enhanced event rates from non-standard neutrino interactions in various detector materials.

Abstract

As low-threshold dark matter detectors advance in development, they will become sensitive to recoils from solar neutrinos which opens up the possibility to explore neutrino properties. We predict the enhancement of the event rate of solar neutrino scattering from Beyond the Standard Model interactions in low-threshold DM detectors, with a focus on silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, xenon, and argon-based detectors. We consider a set of general neutrino interactions, which fall into five categories: the neutrino magnetic moment as well as interactions mediated by four types of mediators (scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, and axial vector), and consider coupling these mediators to either quarks or electrons. Using these predictions, we place constraints on the mass and couplings of each mediator and the neutrino magnetic moment from current low-threshold detectors like SENSEI, Edelweiss, and SuperCDMS, as well as projections relevant for future experiments such as DAMIC-M, Oscura, Darwin, and ARGO. We find that such low-threshold detectors can improve current constraints by up to two orders of magnitude for vector mediators and one order of magnitude for scalar mediators.