Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

Abstract

Abstract Since its prediction in 1974, the measurement of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE υNS) has been a great challenge for many experimentalists. One of the main factors is the small recoil energies of the nucleus produced by this interaction, which is dominant for energies ≾ 50 MeV, for medium target masses. The detection was finally achieved by the COHERENT experiment in 2017 and several other experiments are currently close to performing this measurement for different neutrino energies and sources, thanks to the development of very low threshold and background detectors. Measuring CEυNS opens up new possibilities to test the Standard Model and to look for new physics beyond it. The purpose of this contribution is to provide a brief overview of the state-of-the-art on this subject, with a focus on some of the latest experimental results and future perspectives.