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Understanding nuclear effects is essential for improving the sensitivity of neutrino oscillation measurements. Validating nuclear models solely through neutrino scattering data is challenging due to limited statistics and the broad energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Seisho Abe

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) can be used to determine the neutron part of nuclear form factors, unlocking intrinsic properties of nuclear structure. In contrast with other such methods, CEvNS is free from both strong…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-20 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Qiang Fu , Jian Tang

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

We investigate standard and non-standard solar neutrino signals in direct dark matter detection experiments. It is well known that even without new physics, scattering of solar neutrinos on nuclei or electrons is an irreducible background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Pedro A. N. Machado

The recent observations of the coherent neutrino- and antineutrino-nucleus scattering have opened up a plethora of opportunities to probe physics within standard and non-standard theories of the electroweak interactions. In the present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 T. S. Kosmas , R. Sahu , V. K. B. Kota

Neutrino nucleus elastic scattering ({\nu}Ael) with reactor neutrinos is an interaction under full quantum-mechanical coherence. It has not yet been experimentally observed. We present new results on the studies of {\nu}Ael cross section…

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

We revisit correlations of neutrino oscillation parameters in reactor and long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. A framework based on an effective value of $\theta_{13}$ is presented, which can easily reproduce experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-25 Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

Neutrino-nucleus coherent elastic scattering provides a theoretically appealing way to measure the neutron part of nuclear form factors. Using an expansion of form factors into moments, we show that neutrinos from stopped pions can probe…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Kelly Patton , Jonathan Engel , Gail C. McLaughlin , Nicolas Schunck

We present an updated analysis of the coherent neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering data of the COHERENT experiment taking into account the new quenching factor published recently in Phys. Rev. D100, 033003 (2019). Through a fit of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-26 M. Cadeddu , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , Y. Y. Zhang

We formulate an Effective Field Theory (EFT) for Non Standard neutrino Interactions (NSI) in elastic scattering with light quarks, leptons, gluons and photons, including all possible operators of dimension 5, 6 and 7. We provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Michele Tammaro , Jure Zupan

This work presents the first comprehensive phenomenological analysis of the newly released Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) data on germanium, measured by the COHERENT collaboration at the Spallation Neutron Source.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , R. Cerulli , G. Co' , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , R. Pavarani

We show that the process of Coherent Elastic neutrino (v) Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) at nuclear reactor experiments has significant sensitivity to the so-called X17 particle, which has been invoked to explain the ATOMKI anomaly, wherein…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Johan Rathsman , Joakim Cederkäll , Yasar Hicyilmaz , Else Lytken , Stefano Moretti

We propose that reactor experiments could be used to constrain the environment dependence of neutrino mass and mixing parameters, which could be induced due to an acceleron coupling to matter fields. There are several short-baseline reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Schwetz , Walter Winter

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

Coherent elastic neutrino- and WIMP-nucleus interaction signatures are expected to be quite similar. This paper discusses how a next generation ton-scale dark matter detector could discover neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-07 A. J. Anderson , J. M. Conrad , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , K. Scholberg , J. Spitz

A thorough understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions physics is crucial to achieving precision goals in broader neutrino physics programs. The complexity of nuclei comprising the detectors and limited understanding of their weak…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-06-12 V. Pandey

We study the complementarity between COHERENT and LHC searches in testing neutrino nonstandard interactions (NSIs) through the completion of the effective field theory approach within a $Z'$ simplified model. Our results show that LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 Víctor Martín Lozano , G. Sanchez Garcia , Adrián Terrones

The neutrino research program in the coming decades will require improved precision. A major source of uncertainty is the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei that serve as targets for such experiments. Broadly speaking, this interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-02 Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya , Sam Carey , Erez O. Cohen , Gil Paz

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) offers a valuable approach in searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. The Ricochet experiment aims to perform a precision measurement of the CE$\nu$NS spectrum at the…