Direct Detection of Dark Matter: A Critical Review

M Misiaszek, N Rossi - Symmetry, 2024 - mdpi.com
The nature of dark matter in the Universe is one of the hardest unsolved problems in modern
physics. Indeed, on one hand, the overwhelming indirect evidence from astrophysics seems …

Technological Novelties and Scientific Discoveries with the Borexino Experiment

G Bellini - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The Borexino experiment has developed, in its 32 years of activity, techniques and methods
that allow for unprecedented radiopurity levels, which continue to be the current state of the …

The Sun and core-collapse supernovae are leading probes of the neutrino lifetime

P Martínez-Miravé, I Tamborra… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The large distances travelled by neutrinos emitted from the Sun and core-collapse
supernovae together with the characteristic energy of such neutrinos provide ideal …

Status of direct determination of solar neutrino fluxes after Borexino

MC Gonzalez-Garcia, M Maltoni, JP Pinheiro… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We determine the solar neutrino fluxes from the global analysis of the most up-to-
date terrestrial and solar neutrino data including the final results of the three phases of …

CYGS: detecting solar neutrinos with directional gas time projection chambers

C Lisotti, CAJ O'Hare, E Baracchini, VU Bashu… - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
Cygnus is a proposed global network of large-scale gas time projection chambers (TPCs)
with the capability of directionally detecting nuclear and electron recoils at≳ keV energies …

Event-by-event direction reconstruction of solar neutrinos in a high light-yield liquid scintillator

A Allega, MR Anderson, S Andringa, J Antunes… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The direction of individual B 8 solar neutrinos has been reconstructed using the SNO+ liquid
scintillator detector. Prompt, directional Cherenkov light was separated from the slower …

Enhancing Direct Detection of Higgsino Dark Matter

PW Graham, H Ramani, SSY Wong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07768, 2024 - arxiv.org
While much supersymmetric WIMP parameter space has been ruled out, one remaining
important candidate is Higgsino dark matter. The Higgsino can naturally realize …

A broad set of solar and cosmochemical data indicates high CNO abundances for the solar system

N Truong, CR Glein, JI Lunine - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We examine the role of refractory organics as a major C carrier in the outer protosolar
nebula and its implications for the compositions of large Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and CI …

Jovian signal at BOREXINO

S Ansarifard, Y Farzan - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The BOREXINO experiment has been collecting solar neutrino data since 2007, providing
the opportunity to study the variation of the event rate over a decade. We find that at 96% CL …

Optimized pulse shape discrimination in Borexino

D Basilico, G Bellini, J Benziger, R Biondi… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Borexino could efficiently distinguish between α and β radiation in its liquid scintillator by the
characteristic time profile of its scintillation pulse. This α/β discrimination, first demonstrated …