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Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering was first experimentally established five years ago by the COHERENT experiment using neutrinos from the spallation neutron source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The first evidence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Pilar Coloma , Ivan Esteban , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Leire Larizgoitia , Francesc Monrabal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

We review standard and non-standard neutrino physics probes that are based on nuclear measurements. We pay special attention on the discussion of prospects to extract new physics at prominent rare event measurements looking for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-28 D. K. Papoulias , T. S. Kosmas , Y. Kuno

Using neutrinos produced at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT collaboration has studied the Pb($\nu_e$,X$n$) process with a lead neutrino-induced-neutron (NIN) detector. Data from this…

We analyze data from the CsI, liquid Ar and Ge detectors of the COHERENT experiment and confirm within $1.5\sigma$ that the measured elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross section is proportional to the square of the number of neutrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-30 Jiajun Liao , Danny Marfatia , Jiajie Zhang

The coherent contribution of all neutrons in neutrino nucleus scattering due to the neutral current is examined considering the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) as a source of neutrinos. SNS is a prolific pulsed source of electron and muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 J. D. Vergados , F. T. Avignone , I. Giomataris

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) opens new approaches for the search of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The NUCLEUS experiment aims to use the intense antineutrino flux produced from nuclear reactor cores to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-07 Giorgio Del Castello

Release of COHERENT collaboration data from the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on argon. This release corresponds with the results of "Analysis A" published in Akimov et al., arXiv:2003.10630…

We present a comprehensive sensitivity study of future CE$\nu$NS detectors, focusing on a cryogenic cesium iodide detector and a tonne-scale liquid argon one, currently being developed by the COHERENT Collaboration. These setups will enable…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-19 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , R. Pavarani

The Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is designed to produce intense pulsed neutrons for various science and engineering applications. Copious neutrinos are a free by-product. When it reaches full power, the SNS will be the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-16 K. Scholberg , T. Wongjirad , E. Hungerford , A. Empl , D. Markoff , P. Mueller , Y. Efremenko , D. McKinsey , J. Nikkel

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

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) stands out as a pivotal process for precision tests of the Standard Model electroweak sector, investigations of neutrino properties, and searches for new physics (NP). Recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Gang Li , Chuan-Qiang Song , Feng-Jie Tang , Jiang-Hao Yu

The detection of galactic supernova (SN) neutrinos represents one of the future frontiers of low-energy neutrino physics and astrophysics. The neutron coherence of neutral currents (NC) allows quite large cross sections in the case of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 J. D. Vergados

The coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) plays a crucial role at the final evolution of stars. The detection of it would be of importance in astroparticle physics. Among all available neutrino sources, galactic supernovae…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-25 XMASS Collaboration

Results from the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments have been interpreted as evidence for a sterile neutrino with a mass near the electronvolt scale. Here we propose to test such a scenario by measuring the coherent elastic scattering rate of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper , Pedro Machado

The design and performance of the new Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer (CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge are described. CNCS is a direct geometry inelastic time-of-flight spectrometer, designed to cover essentially the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Ehlers , A. Podlesnyak , J. L. Niedziela , E. B. Iverson

The COHERENT collaboration observed coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering using a 14.6 kg cesium-iodide (CsI) detector in 2017 and recently published the updated results before decommissioning the detector. Here, we present the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-16 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , G. Masia

Using an 185-kg NaI[Tl] array, COHERENT has measured the inclusive electron-neutrino charged-current cross section on ${}^{127}$I with pion decay-at-rest neutrinos produced by the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.…

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and other rare-event physics searches, like dark matter detection, have been especially furthered by increasing sensitivity to low-energy particle interactions. Experiments using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-09 Charles Mark Lewis

We study the sensitivity of the stopped pion source of neutrinos at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI). In particular, we find that simple event counting above…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Ian M. Shoemaker