A method for measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at a far off-axis high-energy neutrino beam target

作者：Brice S J; Cooper R L^*; DeJongh F; Empl A; Garrison L M; Hime A; Hungerford E; Kobilarcik T; Loer B; Mariani C; Mocko M; Muhrer G; Pattie R; Pavlovic Z; Ramberg E; Scholberg K; Tayloe R; Thornton R T; Yoo J; Young A

来源：Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2014, 89(7): 072004.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevD.89.072004

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.

• 出版日期2014-4-3
• 单位Los Alamos; Virginia Tech; 美国弗吉尼亚理工大学(Virginia Tech)