COHERENT 2018 at the Spallation Neutron Source
Abstract
The primary goal of the COHERENT collaboration is to measure and study coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using the high-power, few-tens-of-MeV, pulsed source of neutrinos provided by the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The COHERENT collaboration reported the first detection of CEvNS [Akimov:2017ade] using a CsI[Na] detector. At present the collaboration is deploying four detector technologies: a CsI[Na] scintillating crystal, p-type point-contact germanium detectors, single-phase liquid argon, and NaI[Tl] crystals. All detectors are located in the neutron-quiet basement of the SNS target building at distances 20-30 m from the SNS neutrino source. The simultaneous measurement in all four COHERENT detector subsystems will test the dependence of the cross section and search for new physics. In addition, COHERENT is measuring neutrino-induced neutrons from charged- and neutral-current neutrino interactions on nuclei in shielding materials, which represent a non-negligible background for CEvNS as well as being of intrinsic interest. The Collaboration is planning as well to look for charged-current interactions of relevance to supernova and weak-interaction physics. This document describes concisely the COHERENT physics motivations, sensitivity, and next plans for measurements at the SNS to be accomplished on a few-year timescale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.09183,
title = {COHERENT 2018 at the Spallation Neutron Source},
author = {D. Akimov and J. B. Albert and P. An and C. Awe and P. S. Barbeau and B. Becker and V. Belov and M. A. Blackston and A. Bolozdynya and A. Brown and A. Burenkov and B. Cabrera-Palmer and M. Cervantes and J. I. Collar and R. J. Cooper and R. L. Cooper and J. Daughhetee and D. J. Dean and M. del Valle Coello and J. A. Detwiler and M. D'Onofrio and Y. Efremenko and S. R. Elliott and E. Erkela and A. Etenko and L. Fabris and M. Febbraro and N. Fields and W. Fox and A. Galindo-Uribarri and M. P. Green and M. R. Heath and S. Hedges and E. B. Iverson and M. Kaemingk and L. J. Kaufman and S. R. Klein and A. Khromov and S. Ki and A. Konovalov and A. Kovalenko and A. Kumpan and L. Li and W. Lu and K. Mann and Y. Melikyan and D. M. Markoff and H. Moreno and P. E. Mueller and P. Naumov and J. Newby and D. S. Parno and S. Penttila and G. Perumpilly and D. Radford and R. Rapp and H. Ray and J. Raybern and D. Reyna and G. C. Rich and D. Rimal and D. Rudik and D. J. Salvat and K. Scholberg and B. Scholz and G. Sinev and W. M. Snow and V. Sosnovtsev and A. Shakirov and B. Suh and R. Tayloe and R. T. Thornton and I. Tolstukhin and J. Vanderwerp and R. L. Varner and C. J. Virtue and J. Yoo and C. -H. Yu and J. Zettlemoyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09183},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
22 pages, 14 figures