First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon
Abstract
We report the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on argon using a liquid argon detector at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source. Two independent analyses prefer CEvNS over the background-only null hypothesis with greater than 3σ significance. The measured cross section, averaged over the incident neutrino flux, is (2.2±0.7)×10–39 cm2—consistent with the standard model prediction. In conclusion, the neutron-number dependence of this result, together with that from our previous measurement on CsI, confirms the existence of the CEvNS process and provides improved constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions.
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Contributing Org.:
- COHERENT Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1767928
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1784130; OSTI ID: 1837678
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; FG02-13ER41967; AC05-00OR22725; 18-12-00135; 17-02-01077_a; 18-32-00910_mol_a; 20-02-00670_a; IBS-R017-D1-2020-a00; IBS-R017-G1-2020-a00; SC0014664; 0723-2020-0041; SC0010118
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 126; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Electroweak interaction; Electroweak interactions in nuclear physics; Extensions of fermion sector; Form factors; Neutrinos; 39 ≤ A ≤ 58; Neutrino detectors
Citation Formats
Akimov, D., Albert, J. B., An, P., Awe, C., Barbeau, P. S., Becker, B., Belov, V., Bernardi, I., Blackston, M. A., Blokland, L., Bolozdynya, A., Cabrera-Palmer, B., Chen, N., Chernyak, D., Conley, Erin, Cooper, R. L., Daughhetee, J., del Valle Coello, M., Detwiler, J. A., Durand, M. R., Efremenko, Y., Elliott, S. R., Fabris, Lorenzo, Febbraro, Michael T., Fox, W., Galindo-Uribarri, Alfredo, Gallo Rosso, A., Green, M. P., Hansen, K. S., Heath, M. R., Hedges, S., Hughes, M., Johnson, T., Kaemingk, M., Kaufman, L. J., Khromov, A., Konovalov, A., Kozlova, E., Kumpan, A., Li, L., Librande, J. T., Link, J. M., Liu, J., Mann, K., Markoff, D. M., McGoldrick, O., Moreno, H., Mueller, Paul E., Newby, Jason, Parno, D. S., Penttila, Seppo, Pershey, D., Radford, David, Rapp, R., Ray, H., Raybern, J., Razuvaeva, O., Reyna, D., Rich, G. C., Rudik, D., Runge, J., Salvat, D. J., Scholberg, K., Shakirov, A., Simakov, G., Sinev, G., Snow, W. M., Sosnovtsev, V., Suh, B., Tayloe, R., Tellez-Giron-Flores, K., Thornton, R. T., Tolstukhin, I., Vanderwerp, J., Varner, Robert L., Virtue, C. J., Visser, Gerard, Wiseman, C., Wongjirad, T., Yang, J., Yen, Y. -R., Yoo, Jong Hee, Yu, Chang-Hong, and Zettlemoyer, Jacob C. First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.126.012002.
Akimov, D., Albert, J. B., An, P., Awe, C., Barbeau, P. S., Becker, B., Belov, V., Bernardi, I., Blackston, M. A., Blokland, L., Bolozdynya, A., Cabrera-Palmer, B., Chen, N., Chernyak, D., Conley, Erin, Cooper, R. L., Daughhetee, J., del Valle Coello, M., Detwiler, J. A., Durand, M. R., Efremenko, Y., Elliott, S. R., Fabris, Lorenzo, Febbraro, Michael T., Fox, W., Galindo-Uribarri, Alfredo, Gallo Rosso, A., Green, M. P., Hansen, K. S., Heath, M. R., Hedges, S., Hughes, M., Johnson, T., Kaemingk, M., Kaufman, L. J., Khromov, A., Konovalov, A., Kozlova, E., Kumpan, A., Li, L., Librande, J. T., Link, J. M., Liu, J., Mann, K., Markoff, D. M., McGoldrick, O., Moreno, H., Mueller, Paul E., Newby, Jason, Parno, D. S., Penttila, Seppo, Pershey, D., Radford, David, Rapp, R., Ray, H., Raybern, J., Razuvaeva, O., Reyna, D., Rich, G. C., Rudik, D., Runge, J., Salvat, D. J., Scholberg, K., Shakirov, A., Simakov, G., Sinev, G., Snow, W. M., Sosnovtsev, V., Suh, B., Tayloe, R., Tellez-Giron-Flores, K., Thornton, R. T., Tolstukhin, I., Vanderwerp, J., Varner, Robert L., Virtue, C. J., Visser, Gerard, Wiseman, C., Wongjirad, T., Yang, J., Yen, Y. -R., Yoo, Jong Hee, Yu, Chang-Hong, & Zettlemoyer, Jacob C. First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.012002
Akimov, D., Albert, J. B., An, P., Awe, C., Barbeau, P. S., Becker, B., Belov, V., Bernardi, I., Blackston, M. A., Blokland, L., Bolozdynya, A., Cabrera-Palmer, B., Chen, N., Chernyak, D., Conley, Erin, Cooper, R. L., Daughhetee, J., del Valle Coello, M., Detwiler, J. A., Durand, M. R., Efremenko, Y., Elliott, S. R., Fabris, Lorenzo, Febbraro, Michael T., Fox, W., Galindo-Uribarri, Alfredo, Gallo Rosso, A., Green, M. P., Hansen, K. S., Heath, M. R., Hedges, S., Hughes, M., Johnson, T., Kaemingk, M., Kaufman, L. J., Khromov, A., Konovalov, A., Kozlova, E., Kumpan, A., Li, L., Librande, J. T., Link, J. M., Liu, J., Mann, K., Markoff, D. M., McGoldrick, O., Moreno, H., Mueller, Paul E., Newby, Jason, Parno, D. S., Penttila, Seppo, Pershey, D., Radford, David, Rapp, R., Ray, H., Raybern, J., Razuvaeva, O., Reyna, D., Rich, G. C., Rudik, D., Runge, J., Salvat, D. J., Scholberg, K., Shakirov, A., Simakov, G., Sinev, G., Snow, W. M., Sosnovtsev, V., Suh, B., Tayloe, R., Tellez-Giron-Flores, K., Thornton, R. T., Tolstukhin, I., Vanderwerp, J., Varner, Robert L., Virtue, C. J., Visser, Gerard, Wiseman, C., Wongjirad, T., Yang, J., Yen, Y. -R., Yoo, Jong Hee, Yu, Chang-Hong, and Zettlemoyer, Jacob C. Thu .
"First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.012002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767928.
@article{osti_1767928,
title = {First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon},
author = {Akimov, D. and Albert, J. B. and An, P. and Awe, C. and Barbeau, P. S. and Becker, B. and Belov, V. and Bernardi, I. and Blackston, M. A. and Blokland, L. and Bolozdynya, A. and Cabrera-Palmer, B. and Chen, N. and Chernyak, D. and Conley, Erin and Cooper, R. L. and Daughhetee, J. and del Valle Coello, M. and Detwiler, J. A. and Durand, M. R. and Efremenko, Y. and Elliott, S. R. and Fabris, Lorenzo and Febbraro, Michael T. and Fox, W. and Galindo-Uribarri, Alfredo and Gallo Rosso, A. and Green, M. P. and Hansen, K. S. and Heath, M. R. and Hedges, S. and Hughes, M. and Johnson, T. and Kaemingk, M. and Kaufman, L. J. and Khromov, A. and Konovalov, A. and Kozlova, E. and Kumpan, A. and Li, L. and Librande, J. T. and Link, J. M. and Liu, J. and Mann, K. and Markoff, D. M. and McGoldrick, O. and Moreno, H. and Mueller, Paul E. and Newby, Jason and Parno, D. S. and Penttila, Seppo and Pershey, D. and Radford, David and Rapp, R. and Ray, H. and Raybern, J. and Razuvaeva, O. and Reyna, D. and Rich, G. C. and Rudik, D. and Runge, J. and Salvat, D. J. and Scholberg, K. and Shakirov, A. and Simakov, G. and Sinev, G. and Snow, W. M. and Sosnovtsev, V. and Suh, B. and Tayloe, R. and Tellez-Giron-Flores, K. and Thornton, R. T. and Tolstukhin, I. and Vanderwerp, J. and Varner, Robert L. and Virtue, C. J. and Visser, Gerard and Wiseman, C. and Wongjirad, T. and Yang, J. and Yen, Y. -R. and Yoo, Jong Hee and Yu, Chang-Hong and Zettlemoyer, Jacob C.},
abstractNote = {We report the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on argon using a liquid argon detector at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source. Two independent analyses prefer CEvNS over the background-only null hypothesis with greater than 3σ significance. The measured cross section, averaged over the incident neutrino flux, is (2.2±0.7)×10–39 cm2—consistent with the standard model prediction. In conclusion, the neutron-number dependence of this result, together with that from our previous measurement on CsI, confirms the existence of the CEvNS process and provides improved constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.126.012002},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 1,
volume = 126,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Thu Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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