Neutrino backgrounds to dark matter searches
Neutrino backgrounds to dark matter searches
Neutrino coherent scattering cross sections can be as large as ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}39}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$, while current dark matter experiments have sensitivities to WIMP coherent scattering cross sections 5 orders of magnitude smaller; future experiments plan to have sensitivities to cross sections as small as ${10}^{\ensuremath{-}48}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$. With large target masses …