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most citedObservation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering

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physics.ins-det2026★ 1 cited

Experiments towards a neutron target for measurements in inverse kinematics

S. F. Dellmann, C. M. Harrington, O. R. Cantrell +28

Neutron-induced reactions play an important role in fundamental nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, and applications. In the case of reactions on rare isotopes, there are limite…

physics.ins-det2023

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…

nucl-ex2023★ 8 cited

First direct measurement constraining the Ar(,p)K reaction cross section for mixed hydrogen and helium burning in accreting neutron stars

J. Browne, K. A. Chipps, K. Schmidt +25

The rate of the final step in the astrophysical p-process, the Ar(,\textit{p})K reaction, suffers from large uncertainties due to lack of experimental data, des…

nucl-ex2023★ 19 cited

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…

nucl-ex2022★ 7 cited

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

C. Adams, K. Alfonso, C. Andreoiu +229

This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta…

hep-ph2022★ 75 cited

Searching For Dark Matter with Plasma Haloscopes

Alexander J. Millar, Steven M. Anlage, Rustam Balafendiev +24

We summarise the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for axions an…

nucl-ex2022★ 8 cited

E2 Rotational Invariants of and states for Cd: the Emergence of Collective Rotation

T. J. Gray, J. M. Allmond, R. V. F. Janssens +29

The collective structure of Cd is elucidated by multi-step Coulomb excitation of a 3.849 MeV/ beam of Cd on a 1.1 mg/cm Pb target using GRETINA-CHICO…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

Physics Opportunities in the ORNL Spallation Neutron Source Second Target Station Era

J. Asaadi, P. S. Barbeau, B. Bodur +26

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) First Target Station (FTS), used by the COHERENT experiment, provides an intense and extremely high-quality…

physics.ins-det2022★ 11 cited

CLARION2-TRINITY: a Compton-suppressed HPGe and GAGG:Ce-Si-Si array for absolute cross-section measurements with heavy ions

T. J. Gray, J. M. Allmond, D. T. Dowling +26

The design and performance of a new Compton-suppressed HPGe and charged-particle array, CLARION2-TRINITY, are described. The TRINITY charged-particle array is comprised of 64 Ceriu…

physics.ins-det2022★ 12 cited

Development of a novel, windowless, amorphous selenium based photodetector for use in liquid noble detectors

M. Rooks, S. Abbaszadeh, J. Asaadi +6

Detection of the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) scintillation light produced by liquid noble elements is a central challenge in order to fully exploit the available timing, topological,…

hep-ex2022

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…

hep-ex2022★ 8 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022★ 8 cited

Optical properties of low background PEN structural components for the LEGEND-200 experiment

L. Manzanillas, Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro +6

Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN) plastic scintillator has been identified as potential self-vetoing structural material in low-background physics experiments. Scintillating component…

physics.ins-det2022★ 1 cited

Light Response of Poly(ethylene 2,6-napthalate) to Neutrons

Brennan Hackett, Richard deBoer, Yuri Efremenko +21

There is increasing necessity for low background active materials as ton-scale, rare-event and cryogenic detectors are developed. Poly(ethylene-2,6-naphthalate) (PEN) has been cons…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

Photon counting from the vacuum ultraviolet to the short wavelength infrared using semiconductor and superconducting technologies

Jonathan Asaadi, Dan Baxter, Karl K. Berggren +27

In the last decade, several photon counting technologies have been developed opening a new window for experiments in the low photon number regime. Several ongoing and future projec…

hep-ex2022★ 12 cited

Snowmass 2021 White Paper: The Windchime Project

The Windchime Collaboration, Alaina Attanasio, Sunil A. Bhave +23

The absence of clear signals from particle dark matter in direct detection experiments motivates new approaches in disparate regions of viable parameter space. In this Snowmass whi…

hep-ex2022★ 15 cited

Enhanced low-energy supernova burst detection in large liquid argon time projection chambers enabled by Q-Pix

S. Kubota, J. Ho, A. D. McDonald +18

The detection of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae may reveal important process features as well as neutrino properties. The detection of supernova neutrinos is one of the ma…

physics.ins-det2021★ 8 cited

Light Output Quenching in Response to Deuterium-ions and Alpha Particles and Pulse Shape Discrimination in Deuterated Trans-stilbene

J. Zhou, N. Gaughan, F. D. Becchetti +4

We characterized the light output response of a new 140 cm3 stilbene-d12 crystal up to 14.1 MeV neutron energies using a coincidence neutron scattering system. We also characterize…

physics.ins-det2021★ 7 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 4 cited

Development of a Pulsed VUV Light Source With Adjustable Intensity

A. D. McDonald, M. Febbraro, J. Asaadi +1

This paper describes the development of a pulsed light source using the discharge from an electrode in a medium of various noble gases. This source can be used to aid in the charac…

physics.ins-det2021★ 4 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 9 cited

Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro, F. Fischer +28

Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material.…

hep-ex2021★ 2 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 114 cited

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…