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snd@lhc (scattering neutrino detector at the large hadron collider) is a compact and stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced in the lhc in a hitherto unexplored pseudorapidity region of 7.2 < η < 8.6. the experiment is located in the tl18 (target line 18) lhc tunnel, 480 m downstrea...
the scattering and neutrino detector at the large hadron collider in cern
we propose a clean and precise measurement of the flavor dependence of the emc effect using parity-violating deep inelastic scattering on a 48ca target. while the emc effect has been known for almost 40 years, there are essentially no reliable experimental constraints on its flavor dependence. the proposed measurement ...
first measurement of the flavor dependence of nuclear pdf modification using parity-violating deep inelastic scattering
neutrinos are elusive particles whose nature and properties are still mysterious. precision measurements of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay are expected to reveal more information about neutrino interactions with nucleons, its magnetic moment, it...
modular tes-based readout for ton-scale neutrino experiments based on cryogenic calorimeters
heavy neutral leptons (hnls) are additional electroweak-singlet fermions with masses significantly above the mass scale of the standard model neutrinos. they show up frequently in extensions of the standard model, including the seesaw mechanism--an elegant solution to the small observed masses of sm neutrinos. hnls wit...
exploring heavy neutral leptons with transition magnetic moments at neutrino experiments
candles used 48ca to study the neutrinoless double beta decay (0vββ) to explore the mystery of the universe, such as lepton number violation, majorana neutrino, and matter anti-matter asymmetry. the recent candles iii experiment achieved a lower limit on the half-life of 0vββ decay at 5.6 × 1022 years and the effective...
development of laser isotope separation (lis) for 48ca toward the study of neutrinoless double beta decay by candles
the coherent experiment measures coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cevns) with a multitude of different detection technologies at oak ridge national laboratory's spallation neutron source (sns). neutrinos generated by the sns have an energy below 50 mev, enabling coherent neutral current interactions in whi...
measuring coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering with coherent
with current and planned neutrino oscillation experiments, it has become increasingly important to develop an accurate theoretical understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering and exclusive nuclear responses to weak probes. while there are accurate many-body methods to compute quasi-elastic responses to weak probes, th...
applications of the short-time approximation: the unitary fermi gas and neutrino-nucleus scattering
we consider a model with a complex scalar field that couples to (e,μ) or (μ,τ) within the ``longevity'' window: [|ml1 - ml2|, ml1 + ml2] in which l1 and l2 are the two different charged leptons. within such a mass window, even a relatively large coupling (e.g. of the size commensurate with the current accuracy/discrepa...
flavor-changing light bosons with accidental longevity
in the study of rare event physics, such as neutrinoless double beta decay, it is important to understand potential background events. neutron-induced events can take place even deep underground. experiments that study the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136xe use material enriched in 136xe, but the material still co...
measurements of the 134xe neutron capture cross-section between 0.43 and 5.5 mev
the beta-decay paul trap (bpt) measures the beta-neutrino angular correlation coefficient a&betaν in the gamow-teller decays of 8li and 8b (decaying to 8be*-->2α) to search for a tensor component of the weak interaction, a beyond-standard model possibility. the new bpt mk iv trap reduces β-scattering by a factor...
search for an electroweak tensor contribution using trapped 8li with the beta-decay paul trap mk iv
there is overwhelming evidence that gravitationally interacting dark matter exists, but its identity and microscopic properties remain a mystery. current direct detection experiments have not made a definitive claim, and this motivates searching for dark matter outside the direct search region of interest. in particula...
the miniboone-dm search for sub-gev dark matter
making high-precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters requires an unprecedented understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering. in this work, we present the first charged current double-differential cross sections in kinematic imbalance variables. these variables characterize the imbalance in the plane tr...
first measurement of double-differential charged current νμ-argon scattering cross sections in kinematic imbalance variables with the microboone detector
borexino, a large volume detector for low energy neutrino spectroscopy, is currently taking data underground since 2007 at the laboratori nazionali del gran sasso, italy. the main goal of the experiment is the real-time measurement of solar neutrinos, especially the low energy part of the spectrum. neutrinos are detect...
borexino detector performances
neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 νββ) studies are both the best way to determine the majorana nature of the neutrino and determine its effective mass. the two main experiments searching for 0 νββ -decay of 136xe (q value = 2457.8 kev) are kamland-zen and exo-200. though both experiments have enriched 136xe targets, th...
neutron inelastic scattering on 134xe at en = 5 - 8 mev
a modular nai[tl] scintillation crystal detector array is designed to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) and charged current interactions as part of the suite of coherent collaboration detectors deployed at the spallation neutron source at the oak ridge national laboratory. a cevns measurement...
neutrino-nucleus scattering studies with the coherent multi-ton nai array
neutrino-nucleus interactions can produce excited states that can de-excite by emitting particles, including neutrons. neutrino-induced neutrons (nins) produced in common gamma shielding material, such as lead and iron, can pose a background for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments. additionally, ni...
updates on coherent's neutrino-induced neutron detectors
nova is a long-baseline neutrino experiment optimized to observe the oscillation of muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos. it uses a high purity muon neutrino beam produced at fermilab with central energy of approximately 1.8 gev. nova consists of a near detector located 1 km downstream of the neutrino production target...
status of the measurement of neutrino-electron elastic scattering in the nova near detector
during the last decade, nucleon knockout reactions have been a very powerful tool to investigate short range correlated (src) nucleon-nucleon pairs. src pairs account for almost all the high-momentum nucleons in nuclei. studying srcs can help us understand the nucleon-nucleon (nn) interaction at high momenta and short ...
short-range correlations studies using nucleon-knockout reactions
the numen experiment points to measure double charge exchange reaction (dce) cross sections with heavy-ion beams interacting with specific isotopes of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay process (0νββ). to achieve this, numen requires a complete upgrade to magnex spectrometer in infn-lns and a high intensity io...
integration of the scattering chamber of the numen experiment
dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (tpc) detectors are leading the weakly interacting massive particle (wimp) dark matter searches. a better understanding of the low energy nuclear recoil (nr) response in liquid xenon (lxe) will allow experiments to be increasingly sensitive to light dark matter and coherent neut...
a proposal to use mix for a low energy nuclear recoil calibration
the coherent experiment aims to make a first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns), measure the n2 dependence of its cross section, and search for new physics beyond the standard model using the few × 10 mev neutrinos from the pion decay at rest (πdar) source at the spallation neutron source...
detector technologies for the coherent experiment
the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus-scattering has been recently detected for the first time by the coherent collaboration. it is expected that this low-energy process will be measured with more precision by the same collaboration as well as by other experimental setups. i will discuss the phenomenological impact of ...
theoretical implications of coherent neutrino scattering
the coherent experiment recently made the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cevns) at the 6.7 σ level with a 14.6 kg csi(na) crystal at the oak ridge national laboratory. coherent uses the spallation neutron source at ornl as the neutrino source and also plans to test the n ^2 dependenc...
measuring coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering with the cenns-10 liquid argon detector
prospect, the precision reactor oscillation and spectrum experiment, is a short-baseline reactor-based neutrino experiment, examining the spectrum of antineutrinos emitted by the high flux isotope reactor. antineutrinos are detected through inverse beta decay, a nuclear reaction which occurs when an electron antineutri...
tracing antineutrino direction with prospect
ge-mini is a germanium detector subsystem, part of the coherent experiment at oak ridge national lab. using stopped-pion neutrinos from the spallation neutron source, this ~16 kg array of ge detectors searches for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) on germanium. the low threshold and ultra-low noise n...
sensitivity studies and experimental reach for ge-mini, a coherent cevns detector
xenonnt is a dark matter direct detection experiment using a liquid xenon time projection chamber. by lowering the energy threshold to ~1 kev, it will be possible to search for the b8 solar neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns). in this talk, i will present the background model in this sear...
search for b8 solar neutrino nuclear recoil in xenonnt
the short-baseline near detector (sbnd), a liquid argon time projection chamber (lartpc) located at fermilab will soon start accumulating data at a rate of over a million neutrino scattering events per year, initiating a wide range of neutrino physics programs. for sbnd and many other neutrino experiments, modeling neu...
studying neutrino-nucleus interactions at sbnd with muon neutrino charged-current events with protons and no pions in the final state
the ricochet experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) at the institut laue-langevin nuclear reactor in grenoble, france. the experiment is expected to start data-taking in 2024 with two complementary detector technologies, both employing cryogenic calorimeter arrays: cryocube (germ...
coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering detection at a reactor with ricochet
minerνa is a neutrino scattering experiment that uses the numi beamline with the goal of measuring neutrino-nucleus cross sections on different nuclei with high precision, as well as studying the internal structure of the nuclei of those materials. charged and neutral pion production are significant since they represen...
charged and neutral pion production in the minerνa experiment
the light dark matter experiment, ldmx, will scatter a 4gev monoenergetic electron beam off of a tungsten target with the goal of observing dark matter production. with an exposure of 4e14 electrons on target, we expect to see approximately 100 million electronuclear interactions. ldmx is expected to achieve excellent ...
electron-nucleus scattering at ldmx
direct-detection experiments searching for dark matter-nucleus interactions or coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering often use a charge-based readout and are commonly calibrated using sources interacting with the electrons of the detector. however, nuclear and electron interactions produce a different amount of ...
first nuclear-recoil ionization-yield measurement down to 100 ev in silicon
coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (ceνns) offers a unique way to study neutrino properties and to search for new physics beyond the standard model. the nucleus experiment aims to measure ceνns of reactor anti-neutrinos down to unprecedented low nuclear recoil energies. the novel gram-scale cryogenic detector...
exploring ceνns of reactor neutrinos with the nucleus experiment
the next generation neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay experiments aim to achieve sensitive to a decay with a half-life of ~1028years. a germanium-76 (ge-76)-based experiment can achieve the discovery potential for this rare decay process due to its excellent energy resolution and ability to reject scattered gamma-r...
development of germanium (ge) ring contact detectors for ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment
neutrinos elastically scattering off atomic electrons is a purely leptonic process whose cross section can be precisely calculated in the standard model. a measurement of this process can provide an in-situ constraint to the absolute neutrino flux in an accelerator-based nμ beam. nova is a long-baseline neutrino experi...
status of the measurement of neutrinos elastically scattering off electrons in the nova near detector
understanding the origin of quark confinement in hadrons remains one of the most challenging problems in modern physics. recently, the pressure distribution inside the proton was measured via deeply virtual compton scattering. surprisingly, strong repulsive pressure up to 1035 pascals, the highest so far measured in ou...
proton internal pressure distribution suggests a simple proton structure
an important aspect of rare event nuclear physics research such as neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay is filtering out background events that can lower data resolution. the search for 0νββ decay of 136xe utilizes enriched 136xe but still contains significant amounts of 134xe. this poses a problem because, despite ma...
simulating self absoption in 134 xenon for neutrinoless double beta decay research
the coherent collaboration operates a suite of detectors at the spallation neutron source (sns), at oak ridge national laboratory. these detectors, located in a narrow undergound hallway, are designed to measure and search for neutrino, neutron and dark matter interactions from the sns source. in 2017, the collaboraito...
the coherent experimental program: an update
elastic scattering of neutrino with nucleus (v ael ) is the well defined weak interaction processes in the standard model. the texono collaboration adopt electro-cooled point contact germanium detector technology with sub-kev sensitivities for the detection of v ael with reactor neutrinos. the detection of v ael cross-...
coherency in neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering
the idea of measuring the coherent elastic nuclear scattering of neutrinos emitted by a high intensity 51cr radioactive source is investigated. to produce the high intensity source, the radioactive material used in the gallex experiment (36 kg of chromium 38.6% enriched in 50cr) could be reactivated to an intensity of ...
measuring the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering with an high intensity 51cr radioactive source
coherent captain-mills(ccm) experiment is a 10 ton liquid argon scintillation detector experiment located at the los alamos national laboratory(lanl). the los alamos neutron science center(lansce) provides an 800 mev proton beam on a tungsten target which is a copious source of neutrinos from stopped pions, as well as,...
dark matter searches at coherent captain-mills
i will present the anatomy of production mechanisms for sterile neutrino dark matter in the presence of new interactions among either active or sterile neutrinos. these new interactions can be mediated by a scalar or a vector, and allow sterile neutrinos to make up all the dark matter while safely evading all current e...
sterile neutrino dark matter via secret neutrino interactions
this talk will cover new ideas to search for physics beyond the standard model with accelerator neutrino beams in the intermediate energy range. i will review searches for heavy neutral leptons, dark photons, and light scalars using decay-in-flight and neutrino-scattering signatures. i will review several models propos...
neutrino portals to beyond standard model physics: from 100 mev to 100 gev
the 3he(α,γ)7be fusion reaction is an important part of ongoing processes occuring in stars like our very own sun. this fusion reaction is key to determining the 7be and 8b neutrino fluxes resulting from the pp-ii chain in the sun . in standard solar model (ssm) predictions of these neutrino fluxes, the low-energy 3he(...
ab initio investigations of helium fusion
future neutrino observatories, like the deep underground neutrino experiment (dune), will be sensitive to supernovae and solar neutrinos of low energies. these neutrinos offer a unique look inside stars and stellar explosions. inside the dune liquid argon time projection chamber, low-energy electron neutrinos will prod...
delta rays: a novel calibration for the deep underground neutrino experiment (dune) for low energy astrophysical neutrinos
a thorough understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions physics is crucial to achieving precision goals in broader neutrino physics programs. the complexity of nuclei comprising the detectors and limited understanding of their weak response constitutes one of the biggest systematic uncertainties in neutrino experimen...
potential constraints to neutrino-nucleus interactions based on electron scattering data
in the work arguments are provided in favor of using tritium as an (anti)neutrino source in experiments on research of neutrino electromagnetic properties. it is described the evolution of the tritium (anti)neutrino source design with the intensity of 40 mci with respect to experiments on defining the neutrino magnetic...
highly intensive antineutrino tritium source: specifics of physical experiment
next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments will require precise knowledge of neutrino-nucleus cross sections to achieve precise measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters. lattice qcd can be used to calculate nuclear matrix elements relevant for describing electroweak interactions across a range of energies....
towards lattice qcd inputs for neutrino-nucleus scattering
precision measurements of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) will allow a broad collection of physics studies ranging from improving constraints on non-standard neutrino interactions to probing nuclear structure. following initial cevns measurements on csi and ar, the coherent experiment is entering a...
design of a d2o detector for flux normalization at a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source
studies on neutrino-nucleon ($\nu n$) cross sections at different energy scales have regained interest due to increasing importance of precision measurements, as they are needed as an ingredient in all neutrino experiments. in this paper we have calculated both charged current (cc) and neutral current (nc) $\nu$n scatt...
pomeron inspired neutrino-nucleon cross section in ultra high energy
the rate of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 νββ) depends on three components: the phase-space factor for the emission of two electrons, the effective majorana mass of the electron neutrino, and the nuclear matrix element (nme). the nmes cannot be measured experimentally and must be calculated. various nuclear structu...
nuclear structure for neutrinoless double-beta decay
the coherent collaboration operates an array of detectors at the ornl spallation neutron source (sns) to measure coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cevns) and to search for dark matter. the 1.4 mw sns pulsed proton beam produces an intense neutrino flux and may be producing dark matter particles. our low-ene...
studies of neutrino interactions and dark matter with the coherent experiment
the sun -- due to its high matter density, and abundant hydrogen content -- is an excellent target for studying spin dependent dark matter-proton scattering. the sun can gravitationally trap weakly interacting massive particles (wimps) from the galactic halo, which then thermalize in the solar core. the captured dark m...
search for sub-tev wimp-annihilation in the sun
cryogenic calorimeters have established themselves as one of the primary technologies for rare event search experiments with applications from neutrinoless double beta decay, dark matter search to the novel field of precision measurements of the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering ce??ns cross-sections. in thi...
design of low tc tes chips as sensors for low background calorimeter arrays in neutrino physics
as neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to reach into and beyond the inverted hierarchy regime, new strategies are needed to reject background events in kiloton-scale detectors. in monolithic liquid-scintillator-based detectors, otherwise-irreducible backgrounds like 8b solar neutrino scattering could be identi...
new results from nudot: double-beta decay with direction reconstruction in liquid scintillator
the coherent collaboration recently completed the first year of operation at the spallation neutron source (sns) with a 14 kg csi detector optimized for coherent elastic neutrino nuclear scattering (cevns) sensitivity. the oak ridge national laboratory is now converting a service corridor only 20 meters from the sns ta...
the coherent experiment: overview and update of results
supercdms snolab is a low-background experiment that will use semiconductor germanium and silicon detectors to search for galactic dark matter. in addition the experiment has potential to measure the coherent scattering of solar 8b neutrinos. this process will dominate some parts of the spectrum between 1 and 10 kev in...
supercdms snolab: status and prospects for measuring the coherent neutrino scattering
we have reviewed the current status of the inclusive neutrino scattering from $^{12}$c in the low energy region corresponding to the neutrino beams from the pion, muon and kaon decaying at rest. the theoretical calculations of total cross sections in various nuclear models with special emphasis on the recent experiment...
the low energy inclusive $\\nu_{\\mu} (\\nu_{e})-^{12}$c scattering revisited
the analysis of pion production in neutrino-nucleus scattering is crucial to quantify the effect of final state interactions (fsi) in the energy regime of dune and other long-baseline neutrino experiments since fsi modify the number of pions that emerge in the final state as compared to the number of pions produced in ...
quantifying effects of final state interactions on pion production in dune using monte carlo event generators
symanzik's approach to the description of quantum field systems in an inhomogeneous space-time is used to construct a model for the interaction of neutrino fields with matter. in this way, the problem of the influence of strong inhomogeneities of the medium on the processes of oscillations is considered. as a simple ex...
neutrino oscillations in the model of interaction of spinor fields with zero-range potential concentrated on a plane
we study indirect detection signals from solar annihilation of dark matter (dm) particles into light right-handed (rh) neutrinos with a mass in the 1 - 5 gev range. these rh neutrinos can have a sufficiently long lifetime to allow them to decay outside the sun and their delayed decays can result in a signal in gamma ra...
probing dark matter annihilaiton to right-handed neutrinos
the problem of detection of recoil electrons from neutrino scattering at low energies is considered. the use of the spectrum of an antineutrino tritium source (${}3$h) with a small boundary energy of 18.6 kev is of interest for searches for the neutrino magnetic moment. at small neutrino energies, the electron binding ...
inclusion of electron binding in atomic shells in calculation of cross sections for magnetic and weak neutrino-electron scattering
different constraints to the neutrino electric millicharge (nem) have been obtained by considering interactions such as the elastic neutrino-electron scattering (enes). however, the great potential of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (ce$ν$ns) in future reactor neutrino experiments could be an alternati...
sensitivity to the neutrino electric millicharge of experiments involving elastic neutrino-electron and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus processes
in this session we focused on the higher energy deep and shallow inelastic particle interactions, dis and sis. dis interactions occur when the energy of the incident particle beam is so large that the beam is able to penetrate the nucleons inside of the target nuclei. these interactions occur at the smallest level poss...
deep and shallow inelastic scattering
the γ-ray production cross section for the 477.6-kev transition in 7li following inelastic neutron scattering has been measured from the reaction threshold up to 18 mev. this cross section is interesting as a possible standard for other inelastic scattering measurements. the experiment was conducted at the geel electro...
inelastic neutron scattering cross-section measurements on 7li and 63,65cu
we review some recent progress in the study of electroweak interactions in nuclei within the susav2-mec model. the model has the capability to predict (anti)neutrino scattering observables on different nuclei. the theoretical predictions are compared with the recent t2k $\nu_\mu-^{16}$o data and good agreement is found...
meson-exchange currents and quasielastic predictions for neutrino-nucleus scattering
the accelerator neutrino neutron interaction experiment (annie) at fermilab will use 30 tons of gadolinium-enhanced water to capture and detect the otherwise invisible neutrons produced in complex neutrino-nucleus interactions in addition to traditional water-cherenkov charged particle detection. the number of these fi...
the annie experiment - results from phase i
quark-hadron duality connects the resonance and deep inelastic scattering (dis) region in the intermediate energy regime of electron-proton (ep) scattering. resonances include the δ(1232) and other heavier nucleon resonances peaking at higher hadron invariant mass w (~ 1 . 4 - 2 . 0 gev), a kinematic region which needs...
theoretical and phenomenological understanding of quark-hadron duality
we explore the implications of recent nucleon axial form factor lattice calculations for neutrino scattering experiments. national science foundation (phy 1714253).
exploring the functional dependence of the nucleon axial form factor
microboone is a liquid argon time projection chamber that operates in the booster neutrino beam at fermilab. the detector provides high-resolution imaging of neutrino interactions with a low threshold and full angular coverage. thanks to a high event rate and several years of continuous operation, the microboone collab...
recent neutrino cross-section results from microboone
the coherent collaboration is aimed at measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) with high-quality pion-decay-at-rest neutrinos from the spallation neutron source (sns) at oak ridge national lab (ornl), tennessee. neutrons that survive thick shielding between the source and coherent detectors are a...
monte carlo simulation of a dedicated neutron detector for the coherent experiment at the sns, ornl
we consider the impact of the recent data obtained by the lhc, tevatron, and fixed-target experiments on the nucleon quark distributions with a particular focus on disentangling different quark species. an improved determination of the poorly known strange sea distribution is obtained due to including data from the neu...
nucleon pdf separation with the collider and fixed-target data
experimental investigations of neutrino properties, using neutrino beams generated at accelerators facilities, necessitate a detailed and precise knowledge of neutrinonucleus reaction mechanisms. in the energy region of nuclear quasi-elastic scattering, pion-production reactions constitute an important background proce...
neutrino pion production off deuteron
the spherical proportional counter is a novel type of radiation detector, with a low energy threshold (typically below 100 ev) and good energy resolution. this detector is being developed by the network news, which includes several applications. we can name between many others dark matter searches, low level radon and ...
characterization of a spherical proportional counter in argon-based mixtures
the new general-purpose fixed target experiment ship (search for hidden particles) at the cern sps (super proton synchrotron) is aimed at research in the field of beyond standard model (bsm) physics and of tau-neutrino physics. the emulsion neutrino detector will be one of the main elements in the ship detector design....
emulsion detector for future experiment ship at cern
linear alkylbenzene (lab) based liquid scintillator is adopted as the central detector for the jiangmen underground neutrino observatory (juno) liquid scintillator detectors. a quenching factor measurement instrument is designed based on the compton scattering process. two different quenchers for the liquid scintillato...
quenching of fluorescence for linear alkylbenzene
here we present analysis results from the minerva experiment for scattering of neutrinos on nucleus in an energy region of few gev. these results cover a plethora of processes important for high precision neutrino oscillation measurements in which recent results have suggested that the currently used models are insuffi...
neutrino interactions on nuclei at minerva
we review the recent progress in modelling neutrino-nucleus scattering, in a framework based on scaling which describes simultaneously the nuclear response to electromagnetic and weak probes. the study is relevant for the analysis of neutrino oscillation data and the design of the next generation experiments hyper-kami...
a model for neutrino-nucleus interactions in the gev region
the reactor antineutrino and the gallium anomalies have been long unexplained. possible explanations for both of these anomalies include new physics, such as the existence of one or more ev-scale sterile neutrino. however, the previous theoretical calculations, which do not replicate the experimental results, rely on m...
anomalies and sterile neutrinos - implications of new theoretical results
we present results of our recent epps16 global analysis of nlo nuclear parton distribution functions (npdfs). for the first time, dijet and heavy gauge boson production data from lhc proton-lead collisions have been included in a global fit. especially, the cms dijets play an important role in constraining the nuclear ...
epps16 - first nuclear pdfs to include lhc data
we present the projected sensitivity of the lux-zeplin (lz) dark matter experiment to solar boron-8 neutrinos detected via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, and the physics prospects opened by such a measurement with the lz detector.
solar boron-8 neutrino detection with the lz dark matter experiment
darwin (dark matter wimp search with liquid xenon) will be a multi-ton dark matter detector with the primary goal of exploring the entire experimentally accessible parameter space for weakly interacting massive particles (wimps) over a wide mass-range. with its 40 tonne active liquid xenon target, low-energy threshold ...
neutrino physics with darwin
the electron-neutrino charged-current quasielastic (ccqe) cross section on nuclei is an important input parameter for electron neutrino appearance oscillation experiments. current experiments typically begin with the muon neutrino cross section and apply theoretical corrections to obtain a prediction for the electron n...
electron neutrino charged-current quasielastic scattering in the minerva experiment
this paper reviews applications of two-phase emission detectors using xenon as working media. this kind of detectors invented at mephi is extremely sensitive to ionization (down to single electrons) and can be very massive (in ton scale) in order to provide high count rate for quite rare events and organize an active s...
two-phase emission detectors in search for rare events with low energy depositions
the mössbauer spectroscopy is presented as an alternative experimental technique to be pursued in the detec-tion of coherent elastic{\nu}-nucleus scattering (cenns). the neutrino transferred energy in the neutrino-nucleusinteraction causes a perturbation at the nuclear levels which are responsible for gamma radiation i...
searching signature of neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering with mössbauer spectroscopy
sag4n is a code fully based on geant4 that we have developed to calculate neutron yields. the code is available in http://win.ciemat.es/sag4n and works for geant4.10.6 or superior. the improvements to the (α,n) yields introduced by the use of a single monte carlo code, fully developed in geant4, are presented. neutrons...
sag4n: calculation of (α,n) yields for low background experiments using geant4
neutrino-induced coherent charged pion production is a unique neutrino-nucleus scattering process in which a muon and pion are produced while the nucleus is left in its ground state. the minerva experiment has made a model-independent differential cross section measurement of this process on carbon by selecting events ...
measurement of neutrino-induced coherent pion production and the diffractive background in minerva
in light of independent verification of the muon (g-2) anomaly by fermilab and hints of a similar anomaly in the electron sector emerging from the improved measurement of fine-structure constant, it is important to ask if both these anomalies could have a common origin. i will talk about one such attempt involving cont...
solving leptonic (g-2) anomalies with a single z'
the hera ep collider experiments have measured the proton structure functions over a wide kinematic range. new data from the h1 experiment now extend the range to higher 4-momentum transfer (√{q2 } ) over which a precision of ∼ 2% is achieved in the neutral current channel. a factor of two reduction in the systematic u...
new dis and collider results on pdfs
the coherent collaboration has been formed to make a first measurement of coherent neutral-current elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cenns). toward this, the spallation neutron source (sns) at oak ridge national laboratory has been identified as the premier facility for this measurement due to several factors, inclu...
coherent first steps for an experimental neutrino program at the spallation neutron source
neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering (dis) events provide a probe into the structure of the nucleus that cannot be accessed via charged lepton-nucleon interactions. the minerva experiment is stationed in the neutrinos from the main injector (numi) beam line at fermi national accelerator laboratory. the projected ...
neutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering in minerva
minerνa is a few-gev neutrino scattering experiment that has been taking data in the numi beam line at fermilab since november 2009. the experiment will provide important inputs, both in support of neutrino oscillation searches and as a pure weak probe of the nuclear medium. for this, minerva employs a fine-grained det...
minerνa charged current inclusive analysis
a letter of intent has been submitted by a new international team to pursue an accelerator-based long-baseline neutrino experiment, as well as neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay, with an approximately 40-kt (fiducial) modular liquid argon tpc (lar-tpc) detector located deep underground and a high-resolution near d...
an experimental program in neutrinos, nucleon decay and astroparticle physics enabled by the fermilab long-baseline neutrino facility
recently, coupled-cluster computations were extended to electro-weak observables in light and medium-mass nuclei. in particular, we have reformulated the lorentz integral transform method within the coupled-cluster formalism to allow the investigation of break-up observables with the continuum properly taken into accou...
coupled-cluster computation of electroweak observables
we report on an accurate variational many-body technique (cluster variational monte carlo) suitable for the study of medium-mass nuclei. the employed many-body nuclear hamiltonian contains realistic two- and three-nucleon interactions and the trial wave function is constructed from pair- and triplet-correlation operato...
a variational monte carlo approach for the study of medium-mass nuclei
we present a derivation of the total cross section for inelastic scattering of low-energy solar neutrinos and reactor antineutrinos on bound electrons, resulting in a transition of the electron to an excited state. the atomic-shell structure of various chemical elements is treated in terms of a nonrelativistic approxim...
scattering of low-energy neutrinos on atomic shells
results from recent experiments show that short-range interactions between the fermions form correlated, high-momentum, neutron-proton pairs. these pairs dominate the momentum distribution of nucleons above the fermi momentum of the nucleus. the observed dominance of these short-range correlated (src) pairs by neutron-...
tagging correlations at an eic
unanswered and interesting questions arise in the leptonic sector of the standard model of particle physics: are there new sources of cp violation? are the neutrinos dirac or majorana particles? are there more than one higgs doublet that modify the leptonic or semileptonic decays of mesons? all these questions may be a...
towards the low energy frontier
with their complex low-spin structure, the germanium isotopes have accrued a large number of experimental data which challenge nuclear models. the structure of the 74ge isotope is investigated here with nuclear resonance fluorescence as part of an extensive campaign of experimental tests of the shell model in the germa...
testing shell-model interactions at high excitation energy and low spin: nuclear resonance fluorescence in 74ge
nuclei that are unstable with respect to double beta decay are investigated in this work for a novel dark matter (dm) direct detection approach. in particular, the diagram responsible for the neutrinoless double beta decay can be considered for the possible detection technique of a majorana dm fermion inelastically sca...
investigation of light dark matter with 2β decay experiments
the first observation of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (ce νns) by the cohernet experiment using accelerator neutrinos rendered opportunities for abundant scientific and technological applications. to study the ce νns process precisely, a project using cryogenic bolometer technology with lead tungsta...
study of a coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment at a reactor with a pbwo4-based bolometer