9–11 Nov 2019
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  1. 09/11/2019, 08:30
    Talk
  2. Matthew Green (NC State University)
    09/11/2019, 08:45

    COHERENT Experimental Overview

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  3. Alexey Konovalov
    09/11/2019, 09:05
    Invited

    CsI[Na] effort of the COHERENT collaboration.

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  4. Samuel Hedges (Duke University)
    09/11/2019, 09:25
    Invited

    One of the signatures of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is the predicted scaling of the cross section with number of neutrons in the recoiling nucleus squared (N$^2$). The COHERENT collaboration was formed to study CEvNS with a variety of targets to test the physics of CEvNS, including the N$^2$ cross section scaling. As part of COHERENT, a segmented ton-scale NaI[Tl]...

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  5. Mr Jacob Zettlemoyer (Indiana University Bloomington)
    09/11/2019, 09:45
    COHERENT
    Invited

    The first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) was made by the COHERENT collaboration at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in August 2017 with a 14.6 kg CsI(Na) detector. One of the physics goals of the COHERENT experiment is to test the N$^2$ dependence of the CEvNS cross section predicted in the Standard Model by...

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  6. Jorge Piekarewicz (Florida State University)
    09/11/2019, 10:30
    Nuclear structure, theory, and effects
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    Neutron stars are cosmic laboratories uniquely poised to answer fundamental questions about the nature of dense neutron-rich matter. However, knowledge of the equation of state of neutron-rich matter is hindered by uncertainties in the neutron distribution of neutron-rich nuclei. Electroweak probes of ground state densities provide a clean and model-independent tool to mitigate these...

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  7. MARTIN HOFERICHTER (University of Washington)
    09/11/2019, 10:50

    CEvNS in effective field theory.

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  8. Suhonen
    09/11/2019, 11:10

    Inelastic neutrino interactions on nuclei.

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  9. Valentina De Romeri (IFIC CSIC/UV Valencia)
    09/11/2019, 11:30
    Theory / phenomenology
    Talk

    Assuming light vector mediators, we discuss the effects of CP violation on the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) process in the COHERENT sodium-iodine, liquid argon and germanium detectors. We show that in some regions of the parameter space, the presence of a dip in the event rate spectrum can be used to constraint CP violating effects. In other regions, we find that CP...

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  10. Pilar Coloma (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular)
    09/11/2019, 11:50
    Theory / phenomenology
    Invited

    Neutrino non-standard interactions and signatures in CEvNS experiments.

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  11. Doojin Kim (Texas A & M University (US))
    09/11/2019, 14:00

    I will discuss the usefulness of timing information in the COHERENT experiment in the search for dark matter signals.

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  12. Dr Patrick deNiverville (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    09/11/2019, 14:20

    We consider a model of light (sub-GeV) dark matter that escapes many
    of the bounds placed by current dark matter searches. Such low mass
    dark matter candidates, if produced as a thermal relic in the early
    universe, must be accompanied by light mediators in order to reproduce
    the dark matter abundance observed in the present-day universe. These
    light mediators provide new channels for the...

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  13. Diego Aristizabal (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (USM))
    09/11/2019, 14:40
    Theory / phenomenology
    Invited

    We classify new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) processes induced by B8 solar neutrinos in multi-ton xenon dark matter (DM) detectors. Our analysis focuses on vector and scalar interactions in the effective and light mediator limits after considering the constraints emerging from the recent COHERENT data and neutrino masses. In both cases we identify a...

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  14. Janina Hakenmüller (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
    09/11/2019, 15:50
    Current/near-term experiments
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    The CONUS experiment is located at the nuclear power plant of Brokdorf, Germany, at 17m distance from the reactor core. It aims at detecting coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering with four high-purity point contact Germanium detectors with a noise threshold in the range of 300 eV inside an elaborate shield. Proximity to a reactor core requires an in-depth understanding of the neutron...

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  15. Vladimir Belov (ITEP/MEPhI Moscow)
    09/11/2019, 16:10
    Current/near-term experiments
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    The RED-100 is a two-phase emission detector created to investigate coherent elastic neutrino scattering off xenon nuclei. Its active volume has a cylindrical shape with sizes of ~ 40 cm. The total mass of liquid xenon in the detector equals 200 kg. The detector performance provides sensitivity down to a single ionization electron while allows operation at a ground surface environment. In this...

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  16. Prof. Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)
    09/11/2019, 16:30

    Progress and plans for the Ricochet experiment.

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  17. Guillermo Fernandez Moroni
    09/11/2019, 16:50
    Current/near-term experiments
    Invited

    Last results from the CONNIE collaboration and prospects for next generation of experiments based on Skipper CCD.

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  18. Dr Christopher Leitz (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
    09/11/2019, 17:10
    Future experiments and new technologies
    Invited

    The Advanced Imager Technology group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory designs and fabricates detectors and readout circuits for imaging applications in support of National Security and scientific exploration. The group has a long history of supplying silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs) for the astronomy community, including detectors for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the...

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  19. Adryanna Smith (Duke University), Dr Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
    10/11/2019, 09:00

    Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is a neutral-current process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus, depositing a tiny recoil energy. The process is important in core-collapse supernovae and also presents an opportunity for detection of a burst of core-collapse supernova neutrinos in low-threshold detectors designed for dark matter detection. Here we present an...

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  20. Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University)
    10/11/2019, 09:20

    Topics from Tokyo workshop "Dark matter searches in the 2020s - At the crossroads of the WIMP".

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  21. Dr Patrick Stengel (Stockholm University)
    10/11/2019, 09:40

    Paleo-detectors are a proposed experimental technique in which one would search for traces of recoiling nuclei in ancient minerals. Natural minerals on Earth are as old as $\mathcal{O}(1)\,$Gyr and, in many minerals, the damage tracks left by recoiling nuclei are also preserved for time scales long compared to $1\,$Gyr once created. Thus, even reading out relatively small target samples of...

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  22. Nathaniel Bowden
    10/11/2019, 10:00

    Plans towards CEvNS observation with LAr detectors at nuclear reactors and possibilities in nuclear safeguards.

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  23. Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
    10/11/2019, 10:20

    Emerging technology and nonproliferation.

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  24. Kaixuan Ni (University of California San Diego)
    10/11/2019, 11:00

    Two-phase xenon detectors are being actively developed over the last decade and made substantial improvement of search sensitivity for WIMP dark matter. These detectors, operated in time projection chamber (TPC) mode, strongly suppress the electronic recoil background, making it possible to detect CEvNS of neutrinos at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). In addition, two-phase xenon detectors...

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  25. Claudio Savarese
    10/11/2019, 11:20

    Progress and plans for DARKSIDE and QF measurements in LAr.

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  26. Mr Edward Dunton (LANL)
    10/11/2019, 11:40

    Despite evidence from LSND and MiniBooNE for sterile neutrinos at $Δm^2$ = 1 $eV^2$ in electron neutrino appearance experiments, corresponding muon-neutrino disappearance experiments have shown no anomalies. However, these experiments have been performed at a different energy scale compared to LSND and MiniBooNE. Coherent CAPTAIN Mills (CCM) is an experiment at the Lujan Center at LANSCE that...

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  27. Rex Tayloe (Indiana U.)
    10/11/2019, 12:00

    Future LAr program in COHERENT.

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  28. Daniel Pershey (Duke University)
    10/11/2019, 12:20

    We will discuss the sensitivity of the COHERENT experiment to test sub-GeV dark matter candidates that may be produced by the SNS and highlight the advantages of using CEvNS detectors for these searches. We also will show strategies within reach of the next generation of detectors that maximize discovery potential for such detectors.

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  29. Rupak Mahapatra (Texas A&M University)
    10/11/2019, 14:30

    Status and future plans of SuperCDMS.

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  30. Dr Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
    10/11/2019, 14:50

    The LZ dark matter detector is currently under construction at the 4850 level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. The experiment will contain 7 tonnes of pure xenon in a dual-phase Time Project Chamber (TPC) – a technology that has demonstrated very high sensitivities to hypothetical dark matter interactions. LZ is projected to reach unprecedented sensitivities for...

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  31. Prof. Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)
    10/11/2019, 15:10

    CYGNUS is a coordinated effort by dark matter direct search groups interested in directional signals, working towards design and build of a global network of directional WIMP experiments able to probe below the neutrino floor. As such, sensitivity is required to detection and measurement of Solar neutrino-nucleus scattering with directional information. The proposed technology is that of low...

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  32. Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
    10/11/2019, 15:30
    Talk

    Panel discussion of the Snowmass process, its influence on US high-energy physics funding, and the opportunities for the CE$\nu$NS community to organize itself and participate effectively.

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  33. Ziqing Hong (Texas A & M University (US))
    10/11/2019, 16:20

    Low-energy nuclear recoil calibrations for SuperCDMS.

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  34. Marie Vidal
    10/11/2019, 16:40

    NEWS-G (New Experiments With Spheres-Gas) is a rare event search experiment using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs) that aims to extend the sensitivity of direct dark matter searches from 0.1 to few GeV mass range. The talk will cover the current status of the experiment and the recent commissioning at LSM.
    Primarily designed for the direct detection of dark matter, this technology also...

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  35. Long Li (Duke University)
    10/11/2019, 17:10

    The Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering has been observed by the
    COHERENT collaboration using a 14.6-kg CsI[Na] scintillator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This indicates a new way to build a compact neutrino detector and unlocks new channels to test the Standard Model. One challenge is to understand the neutrino-induced low energy nuclear recoils. It is commonly known that the...

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  36. brian lenardo (Stanford University)
    10/11/2019, 17:30

    Measurement of low-energy nuclear recoil quenching factors in liquid xenon.

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  37. Grayson Rich (University of Chicago)
    11/11/2019, 08:30
  38. Marcel Demarteau (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
    11/11/2019, 08:40

    Neutrinos at ORNL

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  39. Jason Newby (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
    11/11/2019, 09:00

    Neutrino flux measurement at the SNS with a D2O detector

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  40. Rebecca Rapp (Carnegie Mellon University)
    11/11/2019, 09:20

    Neutrino source simulations for the SNS and STS

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  41. Prof. Joel Walker (Sam Houston State University)
    11/11/2019, 09:40

    Various anomalies exist in reactor and accelerator based neutrino experiments. CEvNS experiments are well-positioned to probe possible connections of a short-baseline neutrino oscillation effect to existing anomalies. Considerable complementarity in the flavor and mass space is possible by a combination of experimental efforts.

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  42. Andrew Michael Kubik (Texas A&M University (US))
    11/11/2019, 10:45

    The MINER collaboration effort to observe CE$\nu$NS.

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  43. Dr Sergey Pereverzev (LLNL)
    11/11/2019, 11:05

    Abstract.
    In experiments aiming on low-interaction energies—exemplified within the low energy neutrinos coherent scatter and quest for low-mass dark matter particles—researchers must understand the underlying noise mechanisms in their detectors. We observed patterns among low-energy detector backgrounds, which invited questions about condensed matter effects in materials under energy flow....

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  44. Liu Jing
    11/11/2019, 11:25

    Potential for CEvNS measurements with cryogenic scintillators.

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  45. Dr Steven Weber (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
    11/11/2019, 11:45
    Future experiments and new technologies
    Invited

    Neutrino detectors have the proven capability to monitor nuclear reactor power levels and fuel consumption by observing the energy spectrum of neutrinos emitted by the reactor. However, conventional neutrino detection techniques require massive detectors that would be difficult to deploy in the field for nuclear monitoring applications. A new detection method, Coherent Elastic...

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  46. Raimund Strauss
    11/11/2019, 12:05

    The detection of coherent-neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS) opens a new window to study the fundamental properties of neutrinos and to probe physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. NUCLEUS is a novel cryogenic neutrino experiment at a nuclear power reactor which allows for precision measurements of CEvNS at unprecedentedly low energies. It is based on recently demonstrated...

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  47. Shu Liao (Texas A&M University)
    11/11/2019, 14:10

    In this talk, I will show the discovery prospects of Axion-like particle (ALP) at CE$\nu$NS experiments. We consider the ALPs that couples to the standard model through the $a\gamma\gamma$ interaction. The CE$\nu$NS experiments, utilizing reactors and high-intensity proton beam at stopped pion experiments, produce a large number of photons that will be converted to ALPs via the Primakoff...

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  48. Dr Juliette Mammei (University of Manitoba/JLAB)
    11/11/2019, 14:30
    Nuclear structure, theory, and effects
    Invited

    This talk will provide a brief description of the experimental methods and for PVES scattering, particularly for neutron skin measurements. It will also summarize the theoretical motivation for this type of measurement.

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  49. Matteo Cadeddu (Cagliari University and INFN)
    11/11/2019, 14:50
    Theory / phenomenology
    Invited

    Measurement of the weak-mixing angle with CEvNS.

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  50. Francesca Dordei (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))
    11/11/2019, 15:10
    Theory / phenomenology
    Invited

    Coherent elastic neutrino-atom scattering.

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  51. Dr Carlo Giunti (INFN)
    11/11/2019, 15:30
    Theory / phenomenology
    Invited

    Elucidating the electromagnetic properties of neutrinos with CEvNS.

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  52. Dimitrios Papoulias (IFIC (CSIC-Valencia U.))
    11/11/2019, 16:20
    Theory / phenomenology
    Invited

    We discuss new physics opportunities that are accessible from CEvNS measurements. Specifically, we explore the potential of probing neutrino transition magnetic moments and the existence of sterile neutrinos. We present the relevant constraints extracted from the existing COHERENT data as well as we estimate the projected sensitivities at future CEvNS experiments

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  53. Dr Lea Di Noto (University of Genova and INFN)
    11/11/2019, 16:40

    The idea of measuring the coherent elastic nuclear scattering of neutrinos emitted by a high intensity $^{51}$Cr radioactive source is investigated.
    To produce a high-intensity source, the radioactive material used in the GALLEX experiment (36 kg of Chromium 38.6 % enriched in $^{50}$Cr) could be reactivated to the intensity of a few MCi.
    The advantages of this source are that the activity...

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  54. Johnathon Jordan (University of Michigan)
    11/11/2019, 17:00

    The J-PARC Material and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) is a pulsed spallation neutron source in Tokai, Japan. 3 GeV protons produced by the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) are directed onto a mercury target at 25 Hz to produce an intense source of neutrons and decay-at-rest neutrinos. In this talk, I will describe the MLF facility with a particular focus on the neutrino source...

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  55. Patrick Huber
    11/11/2019, 17:20

    Reactor antineutrino fluxes and CEvNS

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  56. Grayson Rich (University of Chicago)
    11/11/2019, 17:40
    Talk

    Summary of the discussions had over the course of the workshop and any plans developed for CE$\nu$NS-community efforts to participate in the Snowmass process.

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  57. Ms Karla Tellez-Giron-Flores (Virginia Tech)
    Poster

    The COHERENT collaboration recently made the first measurement of the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) process, more than 40 years after its theoretical prediction, by using neutrinos produced in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This measurement opened up a window to further studies of interest to a diverse community of physicists....

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  58. Gleb Sinev (Duke University)
    Poster

    The first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering performed by the COHERENT collaboration in 2017 using a CsI detector has been used to significantly reduce the space of allowed non-standard-neutrino-interaction couplings. In this work, we apply the Feldman-Cousins method to the COHERENT data to improve the obtained limit and discuss how the results can be refined further.

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  59. Mr Erem Ujah (North Carolina Central Univerisy )
    Poster

    The suite of detector targets as part of the COHERENT experimental program includes a ton-scale array of NaI[Tl] crystals designed to measure CEvNS interactions on sodium and iodine, and to study charged-current neutrino interactions on iodine. The 7.7 kg NaI[TI] crystals being used are repurposed detector modules and must be characterized for quality and suitability for this detector. One set...

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  60. Mr Corey Gilbert (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Mr Diego Venegas Vargas (University of Tennessee Knoxville/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
    Poster

    The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) of ORNL are two very powerful neutrino sources. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) was first predicted in 1974 and recently observed by the COHERENT collaboration taking advantage of the extremely high-quality stopped-pion neutrino source available at the SNS. CE$\nu$NS is a process in which a...

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  61. Dr Dmitry Chernyak (University of South Dakota)
    Poster

    The NaI/CsI(Tl) crystals are widely used in experiments to search for dark matter and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering thanks to their high scintillation light yields (~50 photons/keV) and relatively low costs. An even higher light yield of NaI/CsI crystals will lead to a lower energy threshold and better energy resolution. It was observed that the light yields of undoped NaI/CsI...

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  62. Mr Connor Awe (Duke University)
    Poster

    Quantifying the light response of detector materials to nuclear recoils is important for almost all dark matter and neutrino experiments. While theoretical models exist, they offer differing features at the energy region of interest to CEvNS and dark matter searches. I describe our measurement campaign to characterize the common liquid scintillator EJ-301 at the Triangle Universities Nuclear...

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  63. Runze Ren (Northwestern University)
    Poster

    NEXUS is an underground test facility equipped with dilution fridge and D-D neutron generator inside a cleanroom. Located 106 m underground at FermiLab, it provides 300 meter-water-equivalent overburden and 100 event/kg/day background level. The fridge is reconfigurable for different types of payloads. This facility opens the possibility of coherent neutrino scattering experiments with low...

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  64. Xiaobin Lu
    Poster

    Deployed at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), PROSPECT is a reactor-based short-baseline experiment designed to make high-precision anti-neutrino spectrum measurements from highly enriched U235 reactor and search for possible sterile neutrino oscillation. The on-surface anti-neutrino detector consists of 4-ton 6Li loaded liquid scintillator optically...

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  65. Ms Crystal Burgos (Duke University)
    Poster

    We produced figures of merit that show how many neutrinos can be detected for supernovae as a function of distance and compactness. Compactness is the ratio of the mass contained within the radius of the progenitor at the time of core bounce as defined by O'Connor and Ott (2011). This was used to quantify the sensitivity of a 40-kiloton liquid argon detector to core-collapse supernovae. We...

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  66. Ian Shoemaker
    Theory / phenomenology
    Invited

    Testing Neutrinophilic Dark Matter at Direct Detection and Neutrino Experiments.

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