Annual modulation of cosmic relic neutrinos
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Safdi, Benjamin R.
Lisanti, Mariangela
Formaggio, Joseph A.
Spitz, Joshua B.
Date Issued
August 2014
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
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Safdi, Benjamin R., Mariangela Lisanti, Joshua Spitz, and Joseph A. Formaggio. "Annual modulation of cosmic relic neutrinos." Phys. Rev. D 90, 043001 (August 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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Abstract
The cosmic neutrino background (CνB), produced about one second after the big bang, permeates the Universe today. New technological advancements make neutrino capture on beta-decaying nuclei (NCB) a clear path forward towards the detection of the CνB. We show that gravitational focusing by the Sun causes the expected neutrino capture rate to modulate annually. The amplitude and phase of the modulation depend on the phase-space distribution of the local neutrino background, which is perturbed by structure formation. These results also apply to searches for sterile neutrinos at NCB experiments. Gravitational focusing is the only source of modulation for neutrino capture experiments, in contrast to dark-matter direct-detection searches where the Earth’s time-dependent velocity relative to the Sun also plays a role.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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