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Description
Since the COHERENT collaboration first observed coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) in 2017, interest in this phenomenon has surged, leading to numerous global efforts to detect reactor neutrinos via CEνNS. Launched in 2019, the NEON (Neutrino Elastic Scattering Observation with NaI(Tl)) experiment aims to observe CEνNS from reactor neutrinos. Following the successful development of a high-light-yield NaI(Tl) detector, data acquisition began in 2022 with the detector installed in the tendon gallery of Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant Unit 6 in Yeonggwang, South Korea. This presentation will provide an overview of the NEON experiment, detailing the detector configuration and operation, as well as its performance and the latest analysis results.
