Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects
Abstract Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form factor of the nucleus. The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently under construction, will generate the most...
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| author | Pilar Coloma Ivan Esteban M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia Javier Menéndez |
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| description | Abstract Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form factor of the nucleus. The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently under construction, will generate the most intense pulsed neutrino flux suitable for the detection of CEνNS. In this paper we quantify its potential to determine the root mean square radius of the point-neutron distribution, for a variety of target nuclei and a suite of detectors. To put our results in context we also derive, for the first time, a constraint on this parameter from the analysis of the energy and timing data of the CsI detector at the COHERENT experiment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fbbb8c207e404dcf9ef6f748cc7f2ebc2022-12-22T01:06:24ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792020-08-012020812210.1007/JHEP08(2020)030Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospectsPilar Coloma0Ivan Esteban1M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia2Javier Menéndez3Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universitat de Val̀encia and CSIC, Edificio Institutos de InvestigaciónDepartament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de BarcelonaDepartament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de BarcelonaDepartament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de BarcelonaAbstract Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form factor of the nucleus. The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently under construction, will generate the most intense pulsed neutrino flux suitable for the detection of CEνNS. In this paper we quantify its potential to determine the root mean square radius of the point-neutron distribution, for a variety of target nuclei and a suite of detectors. To put our results in context we also derive, for the first time, a constraint on this parameter from the analysis of the energy and timing data of the CsI detector at the COHERENT experiment.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)030Neutrino PhysicsEffective Field Theories |
| spellingShingle | Pilar Coloma Ivan Esteban M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia Javier Menéndez Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects Journal of High Energy Physics Neutrino Physics Effective Field Theories |
| title | Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects |
| title_full | Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects |
| title_fullStr | Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects |
| title_short | Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects |
| title_sort | determining the nuclear neutron distribution from coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering current results and future prospects |
| topic | Neutrino Physics Effective Field Theories |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)030 |
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