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The possibility off measuring for the first time neutrino-nuclei coherent scattering has been recently discussed by several experimental collaborations. It is shown that such a measurement may be very sensitive to non-standard interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Barranco , O. G. Miranda , T. I. Rashba

Neutron scattering is a powerful tool to study magnetic structures and dynamics, benefiting from a precisely established theoretical framework. The neutron dipole moment interacts with electrons in materials via their magnetic field, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-23 Nicolas Gauthier , Victor Porée , Sylvain Petit , Vladimir Pomjakushin , Elsa Lhotel , Tom Fennell , Romain Sibille

In this article, we study the potential of direct detection experiments to explore the parameter space of general non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) via solar neutrino scattering. Due to their sensitivity to neutrino-electron and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-28 Dorian W. P. Amaral , David Cerdeno , Andrew Cheek , Patrick Foldenauer

Ultra-cold neutrons (UCN), neutrons with energies low enough to be confined by the Fermi potential in material bottles, are playing an increasing role in measurements of fundamental properties of the neutron. The ability to manipulate UCN…

SciNO$\nu$A is a proposed experiment to deploy a fine-grained scintillator detector in front of the NO$\nu$A near detector to collect neutrino-nucleus scattering events in the NuMI, off-axis, narrow-band neutrino beam at Fermilab. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-11-18 X. C. Tian

The CONUS+ collaboration has reported their first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS). The experiment uses reactor electron antineutrinos and germanium detectors with recoil thresholds as low as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Gonzalo Sanchez Garcia

The purpose of the present paper is to study the neutrino oscillations as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay, with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 KeV. Such low energy neutrino oscillations can only be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Giomataris , J. D. Vergados

We study the sensitivity of detectors with directional sensitivity to coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS), and how these detectors complement measurements of the nuclear recoil energy. We consider stopped pion and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 M. Abdullah , D. Aristizabal Sierra , Bhaskar Dutta , Louis E. Strigari

We discuss prospects for probing short-range sterile neutrino oscillation using neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering with ultra-low energy ($\sim 10$ eV - 100 eV) recoil threshold cryogenic Ge detectors. The analysis is performed in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao , Andrew Kubik , Rupak Mahapatra , Nader Mirabolfathi , Louis E. Strigari , Joel W. Walker

The theory of mirror matter predicts a hidden sector made up of a copy of the Standard Model particles and interactions but with opposite parity. If mirror matter interacts with ordinary matter, there could be experimentally accessible…

Several different experimental results are indicating the existence of anomalies in the neutrino sector. Models beyond the standard model have been developed to explain these results and involve one or more additional neutrinos that do not…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-29 Umut Kose

A thorough understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering physics is crucial for the successful execution of the entire US neutrino physics program. Neutrino-nucleus interaction constitutes one of the biggest systematic uncertainties in…

We present a new experimental method for measuring the process of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high energy neutrino beam production target. This detector would be…

Sterile neutrino ($\nu_s$) conversion in meter scale baselines can be sensitively probed using mono-energetic, sub-MeV, flavor pure $\nu_e$'s from an artificial MCi source and the unique technology of the LENS low energy solar $\nu_e$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Grieb , J. M. Link , M. L. Pitt , R. S. Raghavan , D. Rountree , R. B. Vogelaar

The new concept of antineutrino source for future short-baseline experiments is discussed. The source ensures: 1) well defined hard antineutrino flux; 2) the rate of counts more than ~(1E+2 - 1E+3) per day in the detector volume about cubic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-12 V. I. Lyashuk

Precision measurements in free neutron beta decay serve to determine the coupling constants of beta decay, and offer several stringent tests of the Standard Model. This paper describes the free neutron beta decay program planned for the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Baeßler , J. D. Bowman , S. Penttilä , D. Počanić

We review the status and the results of reactor neutrino experiments, that toe the cutting edge of neutrino research. Short baseline experiments have provided the measurement of the reactor neutrino spectrum, and are still searching for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Lasserre , Henry W. Sobel

We propose to place a very intense source of 51Cr at the center of a 50-tonne target of gallium metal that is divided into two concentric spherical zones and to measure the neutrino capture rate in each zone. This experiment can set limits…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-02-15 V. N. Gavrin , V. V. Gorbachev , E. P. Veretenkin , B. T. Cleveland

The reactor antineutrino energy spectra and flux were reevaluated during the preparation of the recent experiments devoted to the measurement of $\theta_{13}$. Consequently some discrepancies between data and the theoretical predictions in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-24 Luis Manzanillas

A new facility to measure neutrino mass differences and mixing angles and neutrino-nucleus cross sections, such as the proposed ORLaND facility at Oak Ridge, would contribute to the experimental determination of vacuum mixing parameters and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Mezzacappa