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利用RES-NOVA进行太阳轴子搜索:预测灵敏度和首个原型限制

Solar axion searches with RES-NOVA: projected sensitivity and first prototype limit

D. Alloni, G. Benato, P. Carniti, M. Cataldo, L. Chen, M. Clemenza, M. Consonni, G. Croci, I. Dafinei, F. A. Danevich, J. De Miguel, C. de Vecchi, D. Di Martino, R. Elleboro, N. Ferreiro Iachellini, F. Ferroni, F. Filippini, V. Fonoll, S. Ghislandi, A. Giachero, M. Giannotti, L. Gironi, P. Gorla, C. Gotti, D. L. Helis, D. V. Kasperovych, V. V. Kobychev, A. Lella, G. Lucente, G. Marcucci, A. Melchiorre, A. Menegolli, S. Nisi, M. Musa, L. Pagnanini, L. Pattavina, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, S. Pozzi, M. C. Prata, A. Puiu, S. Quitadamo, M. P. Riccardi, M. Rossella, R. Rossini, E. Sala, F. Saliu, A. Salvini, V. I. Tretyak, L. Trombetta, D. Trotta, H. Yuan

arXiv 2607.21363首次发表:更新:

AI 中文总结

RES-NOVA原用于探测超新星中微子散射,现被证明可用于搜索太阳轴子。通过计算多种成分信号,推导其在不同平面的预测灵敏度,并给出首个原型的排除极限,确立其为有前途的太阳轴子多耦合探测器,与现有搜索互补。

AI 中文摘要

RES-NOVA是一个基于考古铅制成的PbWO4闪烁热量计的低温实验,最初旨在探测银河系核心坍缩超新星的相干弹性中微子-核散射(CEvNS)。我们表明,相同的高密度、高Z吸收体和亚keV能量分辨率使RES-NOVA成为太阳轴子的有吸引力的探测器。我们计算了太阳轴子通量的Primakoff、ABC(原子复合与去激发、轫致辐射、康普顿)、纵向等离子体(LP)和57Fe核线成分的预期信号,通过PbWO4中的逆Primakoff和轴电探测通道进行折叠,分别探测轴子与光子(g_a-gamma)、电子(g_ae)和核子(g_aN)的耦合。我们推导了RES-NOVA演示器在1吨*年曝光下在(g_ae,g_a-gamma)、(g_ae,g_aN)和(g_a-gamma,g_aN)平面上的预测灵敏度。尽管背景大约高四个数量级,但由于大目标质量、轴电和逆Primakoff截面的高Z增强以及亚keV能量分辨率,g_ae的预测范围接近XENONnT的范围,相差约2倍。由于对g_a-gamma的逆Primakoff约束依赖于吸收而不是相干转换,它与轴子质量无关,这与磁日震仪的界限不同。我们用从考古铅中生长的13 g PbWO4原型在实际数据上获得的首个太阳轴子排除极限补充这些预测,使用与背景模型无关的最佳区间分析。这些结果将RES-NOVA确立为太阳轴子的有前途的多耦合探测器,对g_ae、g_a-gamma和g_aN同时具有灵敏度,与现有的日震仪和直接探测搜索互补。

英文摘要

RES-NOVA is a cryogenic experiment based on PbWO4 scintillating bolometers produced from archaeological lead, originally designed to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) from galactic core-collapse supernovae. We show that the same high-density, high-Z absorbers and sub-keV energy resolution make RES-NOVA an appealing probe of solar axions. We compute the expected signal from the Primakoff, ABC (atomic recombination and de-excitation, Bremsstrahlung, Compton), longitudinal-plasmon (LP), and 57Fe nuclear-line components of the solar axion flux, folded through the inverse-Primakoff and axioelectric detection channels in PbWO4, which probe the axion couplings to photons (g_a-gamma), electrons (g_ae), and nucleons (g_aN), respectively. We derive projected sensitivities for a 1 ton*y exposure of the RES-NOVA demonstrator in the (g_ae,g_a-gamma), (g_ae,g_aN), and (g_a-gamma,g_aN) planes. The projected reach in g_ae approaches that of XENONnT to within a factor of ~2, despite a background roughly four orders of magnitude higher, thanks to the large target mass, the high-Z enhancement of the axioelectric and inverse-Primakoff cross sections, and the sub-keV energy resolution. Because the inverse-Primakoff constraint on g_a-gamma relies on absorption rather than coherent conversion, it is independent of the axion mass, unlike bounds from magnetic helioscopes. We complement these projections with the first solar-axion exclusion limit obtained on real data with a 13 g PbWO4 prototype grown from archaeological lead, using a background-model-independent optimum-interval analysis. These results establish RES-NOVA as a promising multi-coupling probe of solar axions, with simultaneous sensitivity to g_ae, g_a-gamma and g_aN that is complementary to existing helioscope and direct-detection searches.

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