Article
A Method for Measuring Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at a Far Off-Axis High-Energy Neutrino Beam Target
Physical Review D
(2014)
Abstract
We present an experimental method for measuring the process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high-energy neutrino beam production target. This detector would be sensitive to the low-energy neutrinos arising from decay-at-rest pions in the target. We discuss the physics motivation for making this measurement and outline the predicted backgrounds and sensitivities using this approach. We report a measurement of neutron backgrounds as found in an off-axis surface location of the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target. The results indicate that the Fermilab BNB target is a favorable location for a CENNS experiment.
Keywords
- Method,
- Measuring,
- Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering,
- Far Off-Axis,
- High-Energy Neutrino Beam Target
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 3, 2014
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.89.072004
Publisher Statement
©2014 American Physical Society. Authors have the nonexclusive right to post the APS-prepared version of the article to an institutional repository. This document was originally published in Physical Review D.
Citation Information
"A Method for Measuring Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at a Far Off-Axis High-Energy Neutrino Beam Target" Physical Review D Vol. 89 (2014) p. 72004 ISSN: 2470-0010 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert-pattie/13/