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Coherency in Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering

Authors :
V. Sharma
Henry T. Wong
Source :
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1468:012149
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
IOP Publishing, 2020.

Abstract

Elastic scattering of neutrino with nucleus (v Ael ) is the well defined weak interaction processes in the Standard Model. The TEXONO collaboration adopt electro-cooled point contact Germanium detector technology with sub-keV sensitivities for the detection of v Ael with reactor neutrinos. The detection of v Ael cross-section is beneficial in studies of irreducible background in dark matter experiments, study of Solar and Supernova processes, etc. It also provides the probe the quantum mechanical coherence effects in electroweak interactions. We defined a parameter α to measure degree of coherency in v Ael . Reactor neutrinos are found to be one of the best candidates to probe v Ael with high coherency. The divergence from full coherence leads to the study of neutron density distribution and to constrain the sensitivities in probing physics beyond the Standard Model.

Details

ISSN :
17426596 and 17426588
Volume :
1468
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........dde351d5b3e5f8c9946a9dee1b4023e5
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012149