Coherent Scattering Investigations at the Spallation Neutron Source: a Snowmass White Paper

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, provides an intense flux of neutrinos in the few tens-of-MeV range, with a sharply-pulsed timing structure that is beneficial for background rejection. In this white paper, we describe how the SNS source can be used for a measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS), and the physics reach of different phases of such an experimental program (CSI: Coherent Scattering Investigations at the SNS).

Note:

Snowmass white paper •
Snowmass 2013 - Intensity Frontier Contributed papers

fission: particle source
neutrino nucleus: elastic scattering
neutrino: flux
neutrino: energy spectrum
Oak Ridge SNS PS
neutrino nucleus: coherent interaction
background
nucleus: recoil
new interaction
scintillation counter

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