Neutrino backgrounds to dark matter searches

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Neutrino coherent scattering cross sections can be as large as 10^-39 cm², 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^-48 cm². With large target masses and few keV recoil energy detection thresholds, neutral current coherent scattering of solar neutrinos becomes an irreducible background in dark matter searches. In the current zero-background analysis paradigm, neutrino coherent scattering will limit the achievable sensitivity to dark matter scattering cross sections, at the level of 10^-46 cm².