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Constraining nuclear physics parameters with current and future COHERENT data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-09 v2

Abstract

Motivated by the recent observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEν\nu NS) at the COHERENT experiment, our goal is to explore its potential in probing important nuclear structure parameters. We show that the recent COHERENT data offers unique opportunities to investigate the neutron nuclear form factor. Our present calculations are based on the deformed Shell Model (DSM) method which leads to a better fit of the recent CEν\nu NS data, as compared to known phenomenological form factors such as the Helm-type, symmetrized Fermi and Klein-Nystrand. The attainable sensitivities and the prospects of improvement during the next phase of the COHERENT experiment are also considered and analyzed in the framework of two upgrade scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.1903.03722,
  title  = {Constraining nuclear physics parameters with current and future COHERENT data},
  author = {D. K. Papoulias and T. S. Kosmas and R. Sahu and V. K. B. Kota and M. Hota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03722},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

13 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; v2: minor corrections, version to appear in PLB

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