June 22, 2020 to July 2, 2020
US/Central timezone

Electron Neutrino Charged-Current Interactions on I-127 in the COHERENT NaIvE Detector

Not scheduled
10m

Speaker

Samuel Hedges (Duke University)

Description

There are only a handful of targets for which low energy charged-current neutrino-nucleus interactions have been observed. The measurement of these cross sections and their energy dependence can potentially test nuclear models and calculations, including studying $g_A$ quenching through a weak process at a momentum transfer relevant for neutrinoless double beta decay. In 2016, COHERENT deployed a 185 kg NaI[Tl] prototype detector to study backgrounds for a ton-scale detector and to make an initial measurement of the inclusive charged-current cross section on $^{127}$I. Current detector and analysis status will be presented, along with plans for a ton-scale detector, potentially capable of simultaneously measuring the charged-current interaction on $^{127}$I and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering on $^{23}$Na.

Mini-abstract

Updates from COHERENT's NaI$\nu$E prototype studying low-energy neutrino-nucleus interactions on NaI

Experiment/Collaboration COHERENT

Primary author

Samuel Hedges (Duke University)

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