2016/03/31 by S. Kerman, V. Sharma, M. Deniz +8 · 3 citations
Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Biology #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Elastic scattering #Neuroscience #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Nucleus #Optics #Particle physics #Physics #Scattering #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.93.113006
published as Phys. Rev. D 93, 113006 (2016) · 5 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. V2 -- Published Version
openalex publication_date 2016/06/08 · arxiv created 2016/06/09 · arxiv updated 2016/06/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering provides a unique laboratory to study the quantum mechanical coherency effects in electroweak interactions, towards which several experimental programs are being actively pursued. We report results of our quantitative studies on the transitions towards decoherency. A parameter (\ensuremathα) is identified to describe the degree of coherency, and its variations with incoming neutrino energy, detector threshold, and target nucleus are studied. The ranges of \ensuremathα that can be probed with realistic neutrino experiments are derived, indicating complementarity between projects with different sources and targets. Uncertainties in nuclear physics and in \ensuremathα would constrain sensitivities in probing physics beyond the standard model. The maximum neutrino energies corresponding to \ensuremathα>0.95 are derived.