Exploring low-energy neutrino physics with the Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment

Aguilar-Arevalo, Alexis; Bertou, Xavier; Bonifazi, Carla; Cancelo, Gustavo; Castañeda, Alejandro; Cervantes Vergara, Brenda; Chavez, Claudio; D’Olivo, Juan C.; dos Anjos, João C.; Estrada, Juan; Fernandes Neto, Aldo R.; Fernandez Moroni, Guillermo; Foguel, Ana; Ford, Richard; Gonzalez Cuevas, Juan; Hernández, Pamela; Hernandez, Susana; Izraelevitch, Federico; Kavner, Alexander R.; Kilminster, Ben; Kuk, Kevin; Lima, H. P.; Makler, Martin; Molina, Jorge; Mota, Philipe; Nasteva, Irina; Paolini, Eduardo E.; Romero, Carlos; Sarkis, Y.; Sofo Haro, Miguel; Souza, Iruatã M.  S.; Tiffenberg, Javier; Wagner, Stefan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.092005

Title: Exploring low-energy neutrino physics with the Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment

Journal Article · Wed Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.092005· OSTI ID:1556979

Aguilar-Arevalo, Alexis; Bertou, Xavier; Bonifazi, Carla; Cancelo, Gustavo; Castañeda, Alejandro; Cervantes Vergara, Brenda; Chavez, Claudio; D’Olivo, Juan C.; dos Anjos, João C.; Estrada, Juan; Fernandes Neto, Aldo R.; Fernandez Moroni, Guillermo; Foguel, Ana; Ford, Richard; Gonzalez Cuevas, Juan; Hernández, Pamela; Hernandez, Susana; Izraelevitch, Federico; Kavner, Alexander R.; Kilminster, Ben more »

The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) uses low-noise fully depleted charge-coupled devices (CCDs) with the goal of measuring low-energy recoils from coherent elastic scattering ($$\mathrm{CE}\mathcal{ν}\mathrm{NS}$$) of reactor antineutrinos with silicon nuclei and testing nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI). We report here the first results of the detector array deployed in 2016, considering an active mass 47.6 g (eight CCDs), which is operating at a distance of 30 m from the core of the Angra 2 nuclear reactor, with a thermal power of 3.8 GW. A search for neutrino events is performed by comparing data collected with the reactor on (2.1 kg-day) and reactor off (1.6 kg-day). The results show no excess in the reactor-on data, reaching the world record sensitivity down to recoil energies of about 1 keV (0.1 keV electron equivalent). A 95% confidence level limit for new physics is established at an event rate of 40 times the one expected from the standard model at this energy scale. The results presented here provide a new window to low-energy neutrino physics, allowing one to explore for the first time the energies accessible through the low threshold of CCDs. Finally, they will lead to new constraints on NSI from the $$\mathrm{CE}\mathcal{ν}\mathrm{NS}$$ of antineutrinos from nuclear reactors.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Organization:: CONNIE Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1556979

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1906.02200; FERMILAB-PUB-19-302-CD-PPD; PRVDAQ; oai:inspirehep.net:1738655

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 9; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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