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The COHERENT collaboration has measured coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on CsI, argon, and most recently germanium. While efforts are underway to obtain precision measurements of CEvNS on NaI and argon with new tonne-scale detectors, the opportunity of measuring CEvNS on other liquid noble targets with the CENNS-10 detector now exists.
A CEvNS measurement on neon will serve as a clean probe of the standard model, complementing current measurements of the N$^2$ dependence of the CEvNS cross-section. Neon benefits from lower systematic uncertainties due to its small nuclear form factor as well as from having zero axial vector contributions from unpaired nucleons. Neon also contains no long-lived radioisotopes, yielding lower intrinsic backgrounds.
We present MCNP analyses of neutron backgrounds in the proposed deployment location and a setup for a quenching factor measurement on liquid neon the TUNL facility. A status of deployment efforts is also presented.