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Sterile neutrinos with keV-MeV masses and non-zero transition magnetic moments can be probed through low-energy nuclear or electron recoil measurements. Here we determine the sensitivities of current and future searches, showing how they can probe a previously unexplored parameter region. Future coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) or elastic neutrino-electron scattering (EνES) experiments using a monochromatic 51Cr source can fully probe the region indicated by the recent XENON1T excess.
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Miranda, O.G., Papoulias, D.K., Sanders, O. et al. Low-energy probes of sterile neutrino transition magnetic moments. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 191 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)191
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