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Modeling ionization and recombination from low energy nuclear recoils in liquid argon
Affiliation:1. Skobeltsyn Institute for Nuclear Physics Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia;2. Physics Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia;1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;2. The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova University Centre, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;3. Hiroshima University, Department of Physical Science, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan;4. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany;1. Gran Sasso Science Institute, viale Francesco Crispi, 7 L’Aquila 67100 (AQ), Italy;2. Institute for Space Sciences (CSIC/IEEC), Barcelona E-08193, Spain;3. Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland;4. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, Heidelberg D-69117, Germany
Abstract:Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS) is an as-yet undetected, flavor-independent neutrino interaction predicted by the Standard Model. Detection of CENNS could offer benefits for detection of supernova and solar neutrinos in astrophysics, or for detection of antineutrinos for nuclear reactor monitoring and nuclear nonproliferation. One challenge with detecting CENNS is the low energy deposition associated with a typical CENNS nuclear recoil. In addition, nuclear recoils result in lower ionization yields than those produced by electron recoils of the same energy. While a measurement of the nuclear recoil ionization yield in liquid argon in the keV energy range has been recently reported, a corresponding model for low-energy ionization yield in liquid argon does not exist. For this reason, a Monte Carlo simulation has been developed to predict the ionization yield at sub-10 keV energies. The model consists of two distinct components: (1) simulation of the atomic collision cascade with production of ionization, and (2) the thermalization and drift of ionization electrons in an applied electric field including local recombination. As an application of our results we report updated estimates of detectable ionization in liquid argon from CENNS at a nuclear reactor.
Keywords:Liquid argon  Ionization yield  Neutrino  Dark matter
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