SNuDD: Solar Neutrinos for Direct Detection
Dorian W. P. Amaral, David Cerdeño, Andrew Cheek, Valeria Costa, Patrick Foldenauer
hep-ph, astro-ph.CO
Submitted: 2026-07-24
Comments: 27 pages, 2 appendices, 7 figures, 1 table
Code: https://github.com/SNuDD/SNuDD
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We introduce Solar Neutrinos for Direct Detection (SNuDD): an open-source Python package that enables the computation of the solar neutrino rate spectrum at direct detection experiments.
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Abstract
We introduce Solar Neutrinos for Direct Detection (SNuDD): an open-source Python package that enables the computation of the solar neutrino rate spectrum at direct detection experiments. SNuDD can be used to determine the differential rate for both nuclear and electron recoils within the Standard Model and in the presence of beyond Standard Model physics effects, such as those arising from neutral-current non-standard interactions (NSI). The package accounts for matter effects during neutrino propagation through both the Sun and the Earth and for modifications to the scattering cross sections at the interaction site. We employ SNuDD to place new limits on the effective NSI couplings using results from the xenon-based direct detection experiments LZ, XENONnT, and PandaX-4T, and we project the sensitivity of a future xenon detector based on the planned XLZD and PandaX-xT observatories. We find that current direct detection experiments are rapidly approaching sensitivities comparable to those of dedicated neutrino experiments and that future xenon detectors can provide leading constraints. We recommend that SNuDD be used to combine incoming direct detection data with those from neutrino experiments in future global fits, placing direct detection within the broader landscape of neutrino physics.
Sources
- Implication of neutrino backgrounds on the reach of next generation dark matter direct detection experiments
- Solar neutrino physics with low-threshold dark matter detectors
- Fog on the horizon: a new definition of the neutrino floor for direct dark matter searches
- The neutrino fog for dark matter-electron scattering experiments
- Exploring nu signals in dark matter detectors
- Neutrino physics with multi-ton scale liquid xenon detectors
- Physics from solar neutrinos in dark matter direct detection experiments
- Dark Matter and Exotic Neutrino Interactions in Direct Detection Searches
- Signatures of Dark Radiation in Neutrino and Dark Matter Detectors
- Non-standard interactions of solar neutrinos in dark matter experiments
- CNO Solar Neutrinos in Next-Generation Dark Matter Experiments
- Solar Neutrinos as a Signal and Background in Direct-Detection Experiments Searching for Sub-GeV Dark Matter With Electron Recoils
- Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in multi-ton scale dark matter experiments: Classification of vector and scalar interactions new physics signals
- Neutrino physics with dark matter detectors
- Solar neutrino probes of the muon anomalous magnetic moment in the gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$
- Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with directional detectors
- Confirming $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_{\tau}}$ as a solution for $(g-2)_\mu$ with neutrinos
- $pp$ Solar Neutrinos at DARWIN
- Detecting Beyond the Standard Model Interactions of Solar Neutrinos in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Detectors
- Recoil imaging for directional detection of dark matter, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model
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