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Producing a new fermion in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: from neutrino mass to dark matter

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  • Vedran Brdar1,
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  • Xun-Jie Xu  ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-13861 

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We consider the production of a new MeV-scale fermion in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. The effect on the measurable nucleon recoil spectrum is calculated. Assuming that the new fermion couples to neutrinos and quarks via a singlet scalar, we set limits on its mass and coupling using COHERENT data and also determine the sensitivity of the CONUS experiment. We investigate the possible connection of the new fermion to neutrino mass generation. The possibility of the new fermion being the dark matter particle is also studied.

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Brdar, V., Rodejohann, W. & Xu, XJ. Producing a new fermion in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: from neutrino mass to dark matter. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 24 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)024

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