Speaker
Dr
Jayden Newstead
(Arizona State University)
Description
The field of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) has grown immensely in recent years. In this talk I will provide an overview of the field, summarizing the running experiments, phenomenological implications and theoretical challenges. With the first detection made by COHERENT in 2017, the goal is now to make more precise measurements using a diverse set of target nuclei and neutrino sources. This approach will maximize sensitivity to new physics in the neutrino sector, including NSI and sterile neutrinos. New physics searches, wanting to make use of CEvNS data, need a consistent approach to predicting CEvNS rates for the various experiments. I will briefly review the tools necessary to make such predictions.
Author
Dr
Jayden Newstead
(Arizona State University)
