A Method for Measuring Coherent Elastic Neutrino-nucleus Scattering at a Far Off-axis High-energy Neutrino Beam Target
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Release | : 2014 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:965192403 |
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Download or read book A Method for Measuring Coherent Elastic Neutrino-nucleus Scattering at a Far Off-axis High-energy Neutrino Beam Target written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present an experimental method for measuring the process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high-energy neutrino beam production target. This detector would be sensitive to the low-energy neutrinos arising from decay-at-rest pions in the target. We discuss the physics motivation for making this measurement and outline the predicted backgrounds and sensitivities using this approach. We report a measurement of neutron backgrounds as found in an off-axis surface location of the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target. The results indicate that the Fermilab BNB target is a favorable location for a CENNS experiment.