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The European Spallation Source (ESS) is the world's next generation spallation-based neutron source. The research conducted at ESS will yield in the discovery and development of new materials including the fields of manufacturing,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 Gabor Galgoczi , Kalliopi Kanaki , Francesco Piscitelli , Thomas Kittelmann , Dezso Varga , Richard Hall-Wilton

The so-called $X17$ particle has been proposed in order to explain a very significant resonant behaviour (in both the angular separation and invariant mass) of $e^+e^-$ pairs produced during a nuclear transition of excited $^8$Be, $^4$He…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Joakim Cederkäll , Yaşar Hiçyılmaz , Else Lytken , Stefano Moretti , Johan Rathsman

The recent discovery of Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) has created new opportunities to detect and study neutrinos. The interaction cross-section in CE$\nu$NS scales quadratically with the number of neutrons,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-15 César Jesús-Valls , Federico Sánchez

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) offers valuable sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. The Ricochet experiment will use cryogenic solid-state detectors to perform a precision measurement of the CE$\nu$NS…

We investigate the impact of a fourth sterile neutrino at reactor and Spallation Neutron Source neutrino detectors. Specifically, we explore the discovery potential of the TEXONO and COHERENT experiments to subleading sterile neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-26 T. S. Kosmas , D. K. Papoulias , M. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) provides a well-defined framework for studying nuclear recoil observables in low-energy neutrino interactions. In this work, we present a comparative Monte Carlo benchmark study of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-05 Yusuf Havvat

The nuGeN experiment is aimed to investigate neutrino properties using antineutrinos from the reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. The experimental setup is located at about 11 meters from the center of the 3.1 GWth reactor core.…

The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) uses fully depleted high-resistivity CCDs (charge coupled devices) with the aim of detecting the coherent elastic scattering of reactor antineutrinos off silicon nuclei and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-25 Irina Nasteva

The cross section for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) depends on the response of the target nucleus to the external current, in the Standard Model (SM) mediated by the exchange of a $Z$ boson. This is typically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-26 Martin Hoferichter , Javier Menéndez , Achim Schwenk

We discuss a small-scale experiment, called $\nu$-cleus, for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by probing nuclear-recoil energies down to the 10 eV-regime. The detector consists of low-threshold CaWO$_4$ and…

Neutrino-nucleus reactions cross sections, obtained for neutrino energies in the range $\varepsilon_{\nu}\leq 100-120$ MeV (low- and intermediate-energy range), which refer to promising neutrino detection targets of current terrestrial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-03 J. Sinatkas , V. Tsaktsara , Odysseas Kosmas

Investigated in this work are sensitivities to non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) of a prototype detector placed about 20 meters away from the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in two years of data taking.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-04 Keyu Ding , Daniel Pershey , Dmitry Chernyak , Jing Liu

The 96.4 day exposure of a 3 kg ultra-low noise germanium detector to the high flux of antineutrinos from a power nuclear reactor is described. A very strong preference ($p<1.2\times10^{-3}$) for the presence of a coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-22 J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , T. W. Hossbach , C. M. Lewis , K. M. Yocum

Neutrino elastic scattering observation with NaI (NEON) is an experiment designed to detect neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering using reactor electron antineutrinos. NEON is based on an array of six NaI(Tl) crystals with a total mass of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-05 J. J. Choi , E. J. Jeon , J. Y. Kim , K. W. Kim , S. H. Kim , S. K. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. J. Ko , B. C. Koh , C. Ha , B. J. Park , S. H. Lee , I. S. Lee , H. Lee , H. S. Lee , J. Lee , Y. M. Oh

We review the physics of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and the results and perspectives for the measurements of the radius of the neutron distribution of the nucleus, of the weak mixing angle, and of new neutrino interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-27 M. Cadeddu , F. Dordei , C. Giunti

XSEN (Cross Section of Energetic Neutrinos) is a small experiment designed to study, for the first time, neutrino-nucleon interactions (including the tau flavour) in the 0.5-1 TeV neutrino energy range. The detector will be installed in the…

In this paper we discuss opportunities for a neutrino program at the Spallation Neutrons Source (SNS) being commissioning at ORNL. Possible investigations can include study of neutrino-nuclear cross sections in the energy rage important for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-24 Yu Efremenko , W R Hix