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The COHERENT experimental program: an update

ORAL · Invited

Abstract

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 collaboraiton produced the first measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) on a small 14 kg CsI[Na] crystal scintillator, followed two years later by the second measurement of CEvNS using liquid argon. The collaboration has also recently put strong constraints on the charged-current inelastic neutrino-lead cross section, and measured the inclusive charged-current neutrino cross section on I-127. I will briefly discuss the current status of the CEvNS and inelastic measurement programs, and their uses for studying neutrino properties and neutrino-nucleus interactions. I will also discuss future plans for the detector suite, including measurements on sodium, thorium, deuterium, along with ongoing work to ton-scale detector systems.

Presenters

  • Phillip S Barbeau

    Duke University

Authors

  • Phillip S Barbeau

    Duke University