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The detection of low energy neutrinos ($<$ few tens of MeV) via coherent nuclear scattering remains a holy grail of sorts in neutrino physics. This uncontroversial mode of interaction is expected to profit from a sizeable increase in cross…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 P. Barbeau , J. I. Collar , J. Miyamoto , I. Shipsey

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

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) offers a unique way to study neutrino properties and to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Nuclear reactors are promising sources to explore this process at low…

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 nuGeN experiment searches for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. A 1.41-kg high-purity low-threshold germanium detector surrounded by active and passive shielding is deployed at the…

Neutrino scattering on atomic systems at low-energy transfer is a powerful tool for searching the neutrino electromagnetic interactions. The regime of coherent elastic neutrino-atom scattering, i.e., when the atom recoils as a pointlike…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Georgy Donchenko , Konstantin Kouzakov , Alexander Studenikin

The prospects of extracting new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) processes are limited by the precision with which the underlying nuclear structure physics, embedded in the weak nuclear form…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-27 N. Van Dessel , V. Pandey , H. Ray , N. Jachowicz

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…

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

We report the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on natural germanium, measured at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Ge-Mini detector of the COHERENT collaboration…

The recent evidence for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) in the NCC-1701 germanium detector using antineutrinos from the Dresden-II nuclear reactor is in good agreement with standard model expectations. However, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-17 Jiajun Liao , Hongkai Liu , Danny Marfatia

Potential applications of neutrino detection to nuclear security have been discussed since the 1970s. Recent years have seen great progress in detector technologies based on inverse beta decay, with the demonstration of ton-scale…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-30 Maitland Bowen , Patrick Huber

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

Neutrinos from supernova (SN) bursts can give rise to detectable number of nuclear recoil (NR) events through the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) process in large scale liquid xenon detectors designed for direct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-26 Sayan Ghosh , Abhijit Bandyopadhyay , Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Sovan Chakraborty , Kamales Kar , Satyajit Saha

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

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