Physics Letters B (Sep 2020)

XENON1T signal from transition neutrino magnetic moments

  • O.G. Miranda,
  • D.K. Papoulias,
  • M. Tórtola,
  • J.W.F. Valle

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 808
p. 135685

Abstract

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The recent puzzling results of the XENON1T collaboration at few keV electronic recoils could be due to the scattering of solar neutrinos endowed with finite Majorana transition magnetic moments (TMMs). Within such general formalism, we find that the observed excess in the XENON1T data agrees well with this interpretation. The required TMM strengths lie within the limits set by current experiments, such as Borexino, specially when one takes into account a possible tritium contamination.