Conveners
COHERENT: Current CEvNS efforts in COHERENT
- Raimund Strauss
One of the signatures of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is the predicted scaling of the cross section with number of neutrons in the recoiling nucleus squared (N$^2$). The COHERENT collaboration was formed to study CEvNS with a variety of targets to test the physics of CEvNS, including the N$^2$ cross section scaling. As part of COHERENT, a segmented ton-scale NaI[Tl]...
The first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) was made by the COHERENT collaboration at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in August 2017 with a 14.6 kg CsI(Na) detector. One of the physics goals of the COHERENT experiment is to test the N$^2$ dependence of the CEvNS cross section predicted in the Standard Model by...