• Corpus ID: 244117474

COHERENT at the Spallation Neutron Source

@inproceedings{Barbeau2021COHERENTAT,
  title={COHERENT at the Spallation Neutron Source},
  author={P. S. Barbeau and Y. Efremenko and Kate Scholberg},
  year={2021}
}

• P. Barbeau, Y. Efremenko, K. Scholberg
• Published 13 November 2021
• Physics

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides an intense, high-quality source of neutrinos from pion decay at rest. This source was recently used for the first measurements of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) by the COHERENT collaboration, resulting in new constraints of beyond-thestandard-model physics. The SNS neutrino source will enable further CEvNS measurements, exploration of inelastic neutrino-nucleus interactions of particular relevance for understanding of supernova neutrinos, and searches for accelerator-produced sub-GeV dark matter. Taking advantage of this unique facility, COHERENT’s suite of detectors in “Neutrino Alley” at the SNS is accumulating more data to address a broad physics program at the intersection of particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. This review describes COHERENT’s first two CEvNS measurements, their interpretation, and the potential of a future physics program at the SNS. 1 ar X iv :2 11 1. 07 03 3v 1 [ he pex ] 1 3 N ov 2 02 1