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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…

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Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus (CE$\nu$NS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (E$\nu$ES) data are exploited to constrain ``chiral'' $U(1)_{X}$ gauged models with light vector mediator mass. These models fall under a distinct class…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Anirban Majumdar , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Hemant Prajapati , Rahul Srivastava

We consider the possible production of a new MeV-scale fermion at the COHERENT experiment. The new fermion, belonging to a dark sector, can be produced through the up-scattering process of neutrinos off the nuclei and the electrons of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Pablo M. Candela , Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias

Neutrinos -- amongst the lightest known particles -- can mediate a force driving dark matter self-interaction and the small scale structure of the universe. We explore such a possibility in the simplest neutrino portal dark sector model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-08 Yue Zhang

In the presence of neutrino Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) with matter, the derivation of neutrino parameters from oscillation data must be reconsidered. In particular, along with the standard solution to neutrino oscillation, another…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-12 Peter B. Denton , Yasaman Farzan , Ian M. Shoemaker

We explore the potential of current and next generation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) experiments in probing neutrino electromagnetic interactions. On the basis of a thorough statistical analysis, we determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-19 O. G. Miranda , D. K. Papoulias , M. Tórtola , J. W. F. Valle

Currently running and forthcoming precision neutrino oscillation experiments aim to unambiguously determine the neutrino mass ordering, the charge-parity violating phase in the lepton sector and the possible existence of physics Beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-10 Afroditi Papadopoulou

We study phenomenological constraints in a simple $S\bar{E} \chi$y extension of the Standard Model (SM) with a 125 GeV Higgs, a vector-like heavy electron $(E)$, a complex scalar electron $(S)$ and a standard model singlet Dirac fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-08 Mads T. Frandsen , Francesco Sannino , Ian M. Shoemaker , Ole Svendsen

Recent observations by the CoGeNT collaboration (as well as long standing observations by DAMA/LIBRA) suggest the presence of a $\sim 5$-10 GeV dark matter particle with a somewhat large elastic scattering cross section with nucleons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-13 Alexander V. Belikov , John F. Gunion , Dan Hooper , Tim M. P. Tait

Several experimental proposals expect to confirm the recent measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS). Motivated in particular by the next generation experiments of the COHERENT collaboration, we study their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-06 O. G. Miranda , G. Sanchez Garcia , O. Sanders

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

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

Neutrino tensor interactions have gained prominence in the study of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) recently. We perform a systematical examination of the nuclear effect, which plays a crucial role in evaluating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-01 Jiajun Liao , Jian Tang , Bing-Long Zhang

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a key process for probing Standard Model and beyond the Standard Model (BSM) properties. Following its first detection by the COHERENT Collaboration, recent reactor-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti

A supernova event in our own galaxy will result in a large number of neutrinos detected on Earth within the time-frame of a few seconds. These neutrinos will have been produced thermally with, in principle, three distinct temperatures for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Jonathan H. Davis

The Conus experiment studies coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in four 1 kg germanium spectrometers. Low ionization energy thresholds of 210 eV were achieved. The detectors were operated inside an optimized shield at the Brokdorf…

Recently, two dark matter direct detection experiments have announced the first indications of nuclear recoils from solar $^8$B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) with xenon nuclei. These results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Christoph A. Ternes

We constrain general Dirac neutrino interactions based on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework extended with right-handed neutrinos $N$ (SMNEFT) using deep inelastic and coherent elastic neutrino scattering, nuclear beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Tao Han , Jiajun Liao , Hongkai Liu , Danny Marfatia

We explore the sensitivity of the SNO experiment to light dark matter particles $\chi$ with spin-dependent interactions with nucleons. We show that the pair-production of MeV scale dark matter is possible in heavy water (CANDU) reactors via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Alexander Clarke , Maxim Pospelov

We investigate the possible production of a MeV-scale sterile fermion through the up-scattering of neutrinos on nuclei and atomic electrons at different facilities. We consider a phenomenological model that adds a new fermion to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Pablo M. Candela , Valentina De Romeri , Pantelis Melas , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Niki Saoulidou