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The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently well on its way to completion, will soon provide the most intense neutron beams for multi-disciplinary science. Fortuitously, it will also generate the largest pulsed neutrino flux suitable…

We present a measurement of the rate of correlated neutron captures in the WATCHBOY detector, deployed at a depth of approximately 390 meters water equivalent (m.w.e.) in the Kimballton Underground Research Facility (KURF). WATCHBOY…

The growing evidence for short-baseline neutrino oscillations and the possible existence of sterile neutrinos necessitates the development of a cost-effective experiment that can resolve these mysteries. The OscSNS \cite{1} experiment,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-21 OscSNS Collaboration

Several experiments have been conducted in the YangYang Underground Laboratory in the Republic of Korea such as the search for dark matter and the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, which require an extremely low background event…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-16 Young Soo Yoon , Jungho Kim , Hyeonseo Park

The deployment of a low-noise 3 kg p-type point contact germanium detector at the Dresden-II power reactor, 8 meters from its 2.96 GW$_{th}$ core, is described. This location provides an unprecedented (anti)neutrino flux of 8.1$\times…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-13 J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , T. W. Hossbach , A. R. L. Kavner , C. M. Lewis , A. E. Robinson , K. M. Yocum

The COHERENT collaboration measured coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) for the first time at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, using a CsI[Na] detector. Here we discuss the nature of the CEvNS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-01-18 Kate Scholberg

The coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos on nuclei, also known as CEvNS, has been studied for several years by the COHERENT program of experiments using neutrinos from stopped-pion decays produced at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS).…

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) has the largest predicted cross-section of all low-energy neutrino couplings. However, as a neutral-current interaction, the only experimental signature of CE$\nu$NS is a low-energy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-04-03 Bjorn J. Scholz

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

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form factor of the nucleus. The European Spallation Source…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Pilar Coloma , Ivan Esteban , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Javier Menendez

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is an accelerator-based neutron source being built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by the U.S. Department of Energy. The SNS will provide the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Coles Sibley , Eric Bjorklund

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 present a new experimental method for measuring the process of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high energy neutrino beam production target. This detector would be…

We show data from a new type of detector that can be used to determine neutron flux, energy distribution, and direction of neutron motion for both fast and thermal neutrons. Many neutron detectors are plagued by large backgrounds from…

Measuring slow neutrons is difficult when the radiation field also contains charged particles and fast neutrons, especially when the radiation composition is not known in advance. In this work, we present a tested method to measure slow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-22 Ankit Kumar , Tushar Verma , Pankaj Jain , Raj Ganesh Pala , K. P. Rajeev

MiniBooNE at FermiLab should be able to confirm or refute the LSND Decay-in-Flight $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillation signal within a few years. The primary evidence of neutrino oscillations from the LSND was in the anti-neutrino channel…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon J. VanDalen