Simulations of 3-Dimensional Recoil Response to Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Events in Directional Direct Dark Matter Detectors

Abstract

Following our earlier work on studying 3-dimensional nuclear recoil response to Galactic Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in directional direct Dark Matter detectors, in this paper, we simulate 3-D coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) events induced by Solar B-8 neutrinos. Our numerical results show that, in contrast to the approximately fixed patterns of the WIMP-induced signals, the characteristic ring-like angular distributions of the nuclear recoil flux/energy of CEvNS events show clearly annual variations along the trajectories of the moving direction of incident Solar neutrinos in different celestial coordinate systems without experimentally distinguishable target dependence.

Comments: 50 pages, 23 figures, 5 tables