Detection and Calibration of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils for Dark Matter and Neutrino Scattering Experiments

J Xu, PS Barbeau, Z Hong - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events plays a central role in searches for particle
dark matter interactions with atomic matter and studies of coherent neutrino scatters. Precise …

Search for light dark matter with NA64 at CERN

YM Andreev, D Banerjee, B Banto Oberhauser… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Thermal dark matter models with particle χ masses below the electroweak scale can provide
an explanation for the observed relic dark matter density. This would imply the existence of a …

Solutions to the MiniBooNE Anomaly from New Physics in Charged Meson Decays

B Dutta, D Kim, A Thompson, RT Thornton… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We point out that production of new bosons by charged meson decays can greatly enhance
the sensitivity of beam-focused accelerator-based experiments to new physics signals. This …

Resonant or asymmetric: The status of sub-GeV dark matter

S Balan, C Balázs, T Bringmann… - … of Cosmology and …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles produced via thermal freeze-out evade many of the
strong constraints on heavier DM candidates but at the same time face a multitude of new …

New constraints on ALP couplings to electrons and photons from ArgoNeuT and the MiniBooNE beam dump

F Capozzi, B Dutta, G Gurung, W Jang, IM Shoemaker… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Beam dumps and fixed-target experiments have been very sensitive probes of such particles
and other physics beyond the Standard Model by considering the production of new states …

Probing invisible vector meson decays with the NA64 and LDMX experiments

P Schuster, N Toro, K Zhou - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Electron beam fixed target experiments such as NA64 and LDMX use missing energy-
momentum to detect the production of dark matter and other long-lived states. The most …

Accessing new physics with an undoped, cryogenic CsI CEvNS detector for COHERENT at the SNS

PS Barbeau, V Belov, I Bernardi, C Bock, A Bolozdynya… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We consider the potential for a 10 kg undoped cryogenic CsI detector operating at the
Spallation Neutron Source to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and its …

Non-standard neutrino interactions in light mediator models at reactor experiments

B Dutta, S Ghosh, T Li, A Thompson… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Compared to other neutrino sources, the huge anti-neutrino fluxes at nuclear
reactor based experiments empower us to derive stronger bounds on non-standard …

COHERENT production of a dark fermion

PM Candela, V De Romeri, DK Papoulias - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We consider the possible production of a new MeV-scale fermion at the COHERENT
experiment. The new fermion, belonging to a dark sector, can be produced through the up …

Inelastic nuclear scattering from neutrinos and dark matter

B Dutta, WC Huang, JL Newstead, V Pandey - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Neutrinos with energy of order 10 MeV, such as from pion decay-at-rest sources, are an
invaluable tool for studying low-energy neutrino interactions with nuclei—previously …