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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…

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Direct detection dark matter experiments have proven to be compelling probes for studying low-energy neutrino interactions with both nuclei and atomic electrons, offering complementary information to accelerator and reactor-based neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , M. Sestu

A direct WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) detector with a neutron veto system is designed to better reject neutrons. An experimental configuration is studied in the present paper: 984 Ge modules are placed inside a reactor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-11 Ye Xu , Jieqin Lan , Yin Bai , Weiwei Gao

Presently, there are several experimental setups dedicated to rare event searches, such as dark matter interactions or double beta decay, in the building or commissioning phases. These experiments often use large mass detectors and have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Carlos Martinez Amaya , Matteo Biassoni

The experiment "Neutrino-4" started in 2014 on a model, then it was continued on a full-scale detector, and now, has provided the measurement result on dependence of the flux and spectrum of reactor antineutrinos on the distance of 6 - 12…

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 have developed a neutrino detector with threshold energies from ~0.115 to 105 MeV in a clean detection mode almost completely void of accidental backgrounds. It was initially developed for the NASA $\nu$SOL project to put a solar…

The IsoDAR sterile-neutrino search requires a very high intensity neutrino source. For IsoDAR, this high intensity is produced using the high neutron flux from a 60 MeV, 10 mA proton beam striking a beryllium target that floods a sleeve of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Adriana Bungau , Jose Alonso , Larry Bartoszek , Janet M. Conrad , Edward Dunton , Michael H. Shaevitz

Extracting accurate results from neutrino oscillation and cross section experiments requires accurate simulation of the neutrino-nucleus interaction. The rescattering of outgoing hadrons (final state interactions) by the rest of the nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-05 S. Dytman , M. Betancourt , N. Steinberg , L. B. Weinstein , A. Ashkenazi , J. Tena-Vidal , A. Papadopoulou , G. Chambers-Wall , J. Smith , P. Achenbach , J. S. Alvarado , M. J. Amaryan , H. Atac , L. Baashen , N. A. Baltzell , L. Barion , M. Bashkanov , M. Battaglieri , F. Benmokhtar , A. Bianconi , A. S. Biselli , M. Bondi , F. Bossu , S. Boiarinov , K. -Th. Brinkmann , W. J. Briscoe , W. K. Brooks , S. Bueltmann , V. D. Burkert , T. Cao , R. Capobianco , D. S. Carman , J. C. Carvajal , P. Chatagnon , V. Chesnokov , H. Chinchay , G. Ciullo , P. L. Cole , M. Contalbrigo , A. DAngelo , N. Dashyan , R. De Vita , M. Defurne , A. Deur , S. Diehl , C. Djalali , R. Dupre , H. Egiyan , A. El Alaoui , L. El Fassi , L. Elouadrhiri , M. Farooq , S. Fegan , I. P. Fernando , A. Filippi , G. Gavalian , G. P. Gilfoyle , R. W. Gothe , L. Guo , K. Hafidi , H. Hakobyan , M. Hattawy , F. Hauenstein , T. B. Hayward , D. Heddle , A. Hobart , M. Holtrop , Yu-Chun Hung , Y. Ilieva , D. G. Ireland , E. L. Isupov , H. Jiang , H. S. Jo , S. Joosten , M. Khandaker , A. Kim , W. Kim , F. J. Klein , V. Klimenko , A. Kripko , V. Kubarovsky , S. E. Kuhn , L. Lanza , P. Lenisa , D. Marchand , V. Mascagna , D. Matamoros , B. McKinnon , T. Mineeva , M. Mirazita , V. Mokeev , C. Munoz Camacho , P. Nadel-Turonski , T. Nagorna , K. Neupane , D. Nguyen , S. Niccolai , M. Osipenko , L. L. Pappalardo , R. Paremuzyan , E. Pasyuk , S. J. Paul , W. Phelps , N. Pilleux , S. Polcher Rafael , J. W. Price , Y. Prok , T. Reed , J. Richards , M. Ripani , J. Ritman , A. A. Rusova , S. Schadmand , A. Schmidt , R. A. Schumacher , M. B. C. Scott , Y. G. Sharabian , E. V. Shirokov , S. Shrestha , N. Sparveris , M. Spreafico , S. Stepanyan , I. Strakovsky , S. Strauch , J. A. Tan , M. Tenorio , N. Trotta , R. Tyson , M. Ungaro , D. W. Upton , S. Vallarino , L. Venturelli , T. Vittorini , H. Voskanyan , E. Voutier , Y. Wang , D. P. Watts , U. Weerasinghe , X. Wei , M. H. Wood , L. Xu , N. Zachariou

Neutron-induced background has been studied in various components of the TIN.TIN detector, which is under development for the search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in $\rm^{124}Sn$. Fast neutron flux $\sim10^{6}~n~cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ covering…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-12 N. Dokania , V. Singh , S. Mathimalar , C. Ghosh , V. Nanal , R. G. Pillay , S. Pal , K. G. Bhushan , A. Shrivastava

The experimental searches for diffuse supernova neutrino background and proton decay in next-generation large liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors are competitive with and complementary to those in the water-Cherenkov detectors. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Jie Cheng , Yu-Feng Li , Liang-Jian Wen , Shun Zhou

We propose applications of Radioactive Ion Beam facilities to investigate physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, we focus on the possible measurement of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering and on a search for sterile neutrinos,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Catalina Espinoza , Rimantas Lazauskas , Cristina Volpe

Recent results on the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) on germanium present significant discrepancies among experiments. We perform a combined analysis of the Dresden-II, CONUS+ and COHERENT data, quantifying the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Yulun Li , Gonzalo Herrera , Patrick Huber

The PANDAX-4T and XENONnT experiments present indications of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) from ${}^{8}$B solar neutrinos at 2.6$\sigma$ and 2.7$\sigma$, respectively. This constitutes the first observation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Pablo Blanco-Mas , Pilar Coloma , Gonzalo Herrera , Patrick Huber , Joachim Kopp , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi

The GERmanium Detector Array, GERDA, is designed for the search for ``neutrinoless double beta decay'' (0-nu-2-beta) with germanium detectors enriched in Ge76. An 18-fold segmented prototype detector for GERDA Phase II was exposed to an…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Abt , A. Caldwell , K. Kroeninger , J. Liu , X. Liu , B. Majorovits

Motivated by Pierre Auger Observatory results favoring a heavy nuclear composition for ultrahigh-energy (UHE) cosmic rays, we investigate implications for the cumulative neutrino background. The requirement that nuclei not be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-14 Kohta Murase , John F. Beacom

The exciting possibility of detecting supernova, solar, and atmospheric neutrinos with coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering detectors is within reach, opening up new avenues to probe New Physics. We explore the possibility of constraining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Anna M. Suliga , Irene Tamborra

Direct-detection experiments sensitive to low-energy electron recoils from sub-GeV dark matter (DM) interactions will also be sensitive to solar neutrinos via coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CNS), since the recoiling nucleus can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-20 Rouven Essig , Mukul Sholapurkar , Tien-Tien Yu

Future large liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors are competitive with and complementary to the water-Cherenkov detectors on the searches for diffuse supernova neutrino background and nucleon decay. In a companion paper, we have performed a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-17 Jie Cheng , Yu-Feng Li , Hao-Qi Lu , Liang-Jian Wen