Phenomenology 2018 Symposium

Parameter Reconstruction and Estimation of Widths in Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiments.

7 May 2018, 17:15

15m

G-28 (Benedum Hall)

parallel talk Neutrinos I

Speakers

Andre Guimaraes (Sam Houston State University) Andrew Loewes (Sam Houston State University)

Description

This talk will comment on the underlying statistics, model evaluation, application and usage of MultiNest for the optimization of coherent scattering neutrino detection experiments. We will discuss an approach which incorporates signal and background uncertainties leading to parameter estimations and distributions for a given likelihood.

We discuss the future possible uses of this approach within the realm of short baseline coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering searches for sterile neutrinos. It is of interest to optimize a variety of experimental factors such as exposure, and detector distance from the source, with respect to projected sensitivity and resolution.

Presentation materials

Param Recon Est Widths CENS exps.pdf