XENONnT Paper in Physical Review Letters' Collection of the Year 2024
Physical Review Letters (PRL) has started a new annual Collection to highlight a specially selected set of Letters it published in the previous year. PRL editors, making use of reviewer reports and informal advice from its Editorial Board Members and others, choose about one issue’s worth of Letters across the broad range of topical areas PRL covers. With this highly selective sliver, corresponding to about 2% of the many important Letters published annually PRL aims to offer its readers an overview of the ground-breaking research in physics and related fields which appeared in PRL over the last year. The entire list of selected articles can be found here: promo.aps.org/PRL2024.
The article First Indication of Solar 8B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT has been selected for this list. Thanks to its very low background, large target mass of 5.9t, and very low threshold, the dual-phase liquid-xenon detector XENONnT was able to for the first time measure the interaction of solar 8B neutrinos with atomic nuclei via a process called cohered elastic neutrion-nucleus scattering. While XENONnT continues data taking to search for galactic dark matter, this results demonstrates the excellent sensitivity of the instrument.
Further Information
- E. Aprile et al. (XENON), First Indication of Solar 8B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 191002 (2024), arXiv:2408.02877
- News Item on the result
