Prospects for Exploring New Physics in Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiments
Abstract
Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENNS) is a Standard Model process that, although predicted for decades, has only been detected recently. Now that CENNS has been discovered, it provides a new probe for physics beyond the Standard Model. We study the potential to probe new physics with CENNS through the use of low temperature bolometers at a reactor source. We consider contributions to CENNS due to a neutrino magnetic moment, Non-Standard Interactions that may or may not change flavor, and simplified models containing a massive scalar or vector mediator. Targets consisting of Ge, Zn, Si, CaWO _4 , and Al _2 O _3 are examined. We present results demonstrating that proposed experiments using bolometers with a reactor source are well positioned to place leading bounds on NSI, and we show the improved bounds that can be placed with various combinations of target materials.
- Publication:
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XXVIII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- June 2018
- DOI:
- 10.5281/zenodo.1300592
- Bibcode:
- 2018npa..confE.198J