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Title: Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the European Spallation Source

Abstract

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 for the detection of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source. We describe innovative detector technologies maximally able to profit from the order-of-magnitude increase in neutrino flux provided by the ESS, along with their sensitivity to a rich particle physics phenomenology accessible through high-statistics, precision CEνNS measurements.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [1];  [1];  [5];  [7];  [1];  [1];  [8]
  1. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst.
  2. Univ. of Valencia (Spain)
  3. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  4. Univ. de Barcelona (Spain). Dept. de Fisica Quantica i Astro sica, and Inst. de Ciencies del Cosmos
  5. Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) (Spain); Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao (Spain)
  6. Univ. de Barcelona (Spain). Dept. de Fisica Quantica i Astro sica, and Inst. de Ciencies del Cosmos; Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), Barcelona (Spain); ; Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
  7. Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) (Spain)
  8. Univ. de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Inst. Gallego de Fisica de Altas Energias
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1581423
Report Number(s):
IFIC-19-45; YITP-SB-19-37; FERMILAB-PUB-19-612
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; oai:inspirehep.net:1762824; TRN: US2101848
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments); Beyond Standard Model; Electroweak interaction

Citation Formats

Baxter, D., Collar, J. I., Coloma, P., Dahl, C. E., Esteban, I., Ferrario, P., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C., Kavner, A. R.L., Lewis, C. M., Monrabal, F., Muñoz Vidal, J., Privitera, P., Ramanathan, K., and Renner, J. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the European Spallation Source. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2020)123.
Baxter, D., Collar, J. I., Coloma, P., Dahl, C. E., Esteban, I., Ferrario, P., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C., Kavner, A. R.L., Lewis, C. M., Monrabal, F., Muñoz Vidal, J., Privitera, P., Ramanathan, K., & Renner, J. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the European Spallation Source. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2020)123
Baxter, D., Collar, J. I., Coloma, P., Dahl, C. E., Esteban, I., Ferrario, P., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C., Kavner, A. R.L., Lewis, C. M., Monrabal, F., Muñoz Vidal, J., Privitera, P., Ramanathan, K., and Renner, J. Thu . "Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the European Spallation Source". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2020)123. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1581423.
@article{osti_1581423,
title = {Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the European Spallation Source},
author = {Baxter, D. and Collar, J. I. and Coloma, P. and Dahl, C. E. and Esteban, I. and Ferrario, P. and Gomez-Cadenas, J. J. and Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C. and Kavner, A. R.L. and Lewis, C. M. and Monrabal, F. and Muñoz Vidal, J. and Privitera, P. and Ramanathan, K. and Renner, J.},
abstractNote = {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 for the detection of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source. We describe innovative detector technologies maximally able to profit from the order-of-magnitude increase in neutrino flux provided by the ESS, along with their sensitivity to a rich particle physics phenomenology accessible through high-statistics, precision CEνNS measurements.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP02(2020)123},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 2020,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {2}
}

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