Publications (20)
Measurement of scintillation response of CsI[Na] to low-energy nuclear recoils by COHERENT
D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +74
We present results of several measurements of CsI[Na] scintillation response to 3-60 keV energy nuclear recoils performed by the COHERENT collaboration using tagged neutron elastic…
Accessing new physics with an undoped, cryogenic CsI CEvNS detector for COHERENT at the SNS
P. S. Barbeau, V. Belov, I. Bernardi +77
We consider the potential for a 10-kg undoped cryogenic CsI detector operating at the Spallation Neutron Source to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and its sens…
Performance of a liquid nitrogen cryostat setup for the study of nuclear recoils in undoped CsI crystals
K. Ding, J. Liu, Y. Yang +2
There is a global trend to increase the light yield of CsI scintillators used in neutrino and dark matter detection by operating undoped crystals at cryogenic temperatures. However…
Simulating the neutrino flux from the Spallation Neutron Source for the COHERENT experiment
COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +80
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a pulsed source of neutrons and, as a byproduct of this operation, an intense source of pulsed neutrinos via…
Bifurcations in the optimal elastic foundation for a buckling column
Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope, Robert Farr, K. Ding +1
We investigate the buckling under compression of a slender beam with a distributed lateral elastic support, for which there is an associated cost. For a given cost, we study the op…
The COHERENT Experimental Program
D. Akimov, S. Alawabdeh, P. An +128
The COHERENT experiment located in Neutrino Alley at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has made the world's first two measurements of coher…
Particle dynamics in deposition of porous films with a pulsed radio-frequency atmospheric pressure glow discharge
Y. Xu, S. A. Khrapak, K. Ding +4
Nanoparticles grown in a plasma are used to visualize the process of film deposition in a pulsed radio-frequency (rf) atmospheric pressure glow discharge. Modulating the plasma mak…
Measurement of Pb(,X) production with a stopped-pion neutrino source
COHERENT Collaboration, P. An, C. Awe +84
Using neutrinos produced at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT collaboration has studied the Pb(,X) process with a l…
COHERENT Collaboration data release from the measurements of CsI[Na] response to nuclear recoils
D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +75
Description of the data release 10.13139/OLCF/1969085 (https://doi.ccs.ornl.gov/ui/doi/426) from the measurements of the CsI[Na] response to low energy nuclear recoils by the COHER…
Polarization conversion of non-specular diffraction orders from metallic nanohole arrays studied by Fourier space polarimetry
Z. L. Cao, K. Ding, L. Y. Yiu +3
We use Fourier space polarimetry to study the incident angle- and polarization-dependent rotation angle and ellipticity of different diffraction orders emerging from a two-dimensio…
The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes
The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479
We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…
Measurement of the Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on I with the COHERENT NaIE detector
P. An, C. Awe, P. S. Barbeau +86
Using an 185-kg NaI[Tl] array, COHERENT has measured the inclusive electron-neutrino charged-current cross section on I with pion decay-at-rest neutrinos produced by the…
A DO detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source
COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +76
We report on the technical design and expected performance of a 592 kg heavy-water-Cherenkov detector to measure the absolute neutrino flux from the pion-decay-at-rest neutrino sou…
Monitoring the SNS basement neutron background with the MARS detector
COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +75
We present the analysis and results of the first dataset collected with the MARS neutron detector deployed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) for…
A COHERENT constraint on leptophobic dark matter using CsI data
COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +78
We use data from the COHERENT CsI[Na] scintillation detector to constrain sub-GeV leptophobic dark matter models. This detector was built to observe low-energy nuclear recoils from…
Measurement of the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Cross Section on CsI by COHERENT
D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +73
We measured the cross section of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (\cevns{}) using a CsI[Na] scintillating crystal in a high flux of neutrinos produced at the Spallatio…
Second-order correlation function from asymmetric to symmetric transitions due to spectrally indistinguishable biexciton cascade emission
X. F. Wu, X. M. Dou, K. Ding +7
We report the observed photon bunching statistics of biexciton cascade emission at zero time delay in single quantum dots by second-order correlation function measurements under co…
Record Performance of Electrical Injection Sub-wavelength Metallic-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers at Room Temperature
K. Ding, M. T. Hill, Z. C. Liu +3
Metallic-Cavity lasers or plasmonic nanolasers of sub-wavelength sizes have attracted great attentions in recent years, with the ultimate goal of achieving continuous wave (CW), ro…
Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with COHERENT's Germanium Array
S. Adamski, M. Ahn, P. S. Barbeau +85
We report the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on natural germanium, measured at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laborato…
First Probe of Sub-GeV Dark Matter Beyond the Cosmological Expectation with the COHERENT CsI Detector at the SNS
D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +73
The COHERENT collaboration searched for scalar dark matter particles produced at the Spallation Neutron Source with masses between 1 and 220~MeV/c using a CsI[Na] scintillation…