2020/06/30 by Pilar Coloma, Ivan Esteban, M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia +3 · 45 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Context (archaeology) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Detector #Elastic scattering #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutron #Neutron detection #Neutron time-of-flight scattering #RADIUS #Spallation #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep08(2020)030
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2020(8) (Springer Nature) · 16 pages, 4 figures. Minor text changes and references added. Matches version accepted by JHEP
openalex created_date 2020/06/19 · arxiv created 2020/07/13 · openalex publication_date 2020/08/06 · arxiv updated 2020/08/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
A bstract Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE ν NS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form factor of the nucleus. The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently under construction, will generate the most intense pulsed neutrino flux suitable for the detection of CE ν NS. In this paper we quantify its potential to determine the root mean square radius of the point-neutron distribution, for a variety of target nuclei and a suite of detectors. To put our results in context we also derive, for the first time, a constraint on this parameter from the analysis of the energy and timing data of the CsI detector at the COHERENT experiment.