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S Karmakar^1,2, M K Singh^1,3, V Sharma^1,4

¹Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529.

Physical Review Letters

|April 11, 2025

Abstract:

Neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering (νA_{el}) with partial quantum-mechanical coherency has been observed in several nuclei with neutrinos from decay-at-rest pions. This interaction with reactor neutrinos where coherency is >95% has not yet been experimentally observed. We present new results on the studies of the νA_{el} cross section with an electrocooled p-type point-contact germanium detector at the Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Laboratory. A total of 242(357) kg-days of Reactor ON(OFF) data at a detector threshold of 200 eV in ionization energy are analyzed. The Lindhard model parametrized by a single variable k which characterizes the quenching function was used. A limit at 90% confidence level of ρ<4.7 at the predicted value of k=0.162 is derived, where ρ is the ratio of the measured to standard model (SM) cross section. Conversely, k<0.288 at the SM value of ρ=1.

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