A View of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering


Demirci M., Başlı O.

Turkish Physical Society 40th International Physics Congress, Muğla, Turkey, 3 - 06 September 2024, pp.199

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Summary Text
  • City: Muğla
  • Country: Turkey
  • Page Numbers: pp.199
  • Karadeniz Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) is a neutral current process where neutrinos are scattered from a nucleus that acts as a single particle. It is difficult to observe experimentally the CEνNS process since the nuclear recoil energy reaches to low keV region. The process was firstly observed by the COHERENT experiment in 2017 with a CsI[Na] scintillating crystal detector using neutrinos from pion-decays-at-rest (πDAR). It was then also measured using a single-phase LAr and with a larger CsI[Na] detector. The detection of CEνNS has triggered both theoretical and experimental activities in high-energy physics, leading new constraints on physics scenarios beyond the SM. It has been widely used in searching for the weak mixing angle, non-standard neutrino interactions, the effective generalized interactions, light mediator models, the neutrino electromagnetic properties and dark-matter.

This work was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) under Project 123F186.