Coherent Collaboration

The Coherent Collaboration (stylized as COHERENT Collaboration) is a multi-institutional effort to measure Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) using the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Coherent collaboration has deployed a suite of detectors with different detector technologies and target nuclei with the goal of directly measuring CEvNS, and this was accomplished in 2017 with a CsI[Na] scintillator crystal detector, making them the first in the world to do so. By taking measurements of the CEvNS cross section for various target nuclei, the Coherent collaboration is able to provide a strong test of the predictions of the standard model. There are also opportunities to study various Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) effects, such as dark matter and sterile neutrinos.

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