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Abstract
The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently well on its way to completion, will soon provide the most intense neutron beams for multi-disciplinary science. Fortuitously, it will also generate the largest pulsed neutrino flux suitable for the detection of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source. We describe innovative detector technologies maximally able to profit from the order-of-magnitude increase in neutrino flux provided by the ESS, along with their sensitivity to a rich particle physics phenomenology accessible through high-statistics, precision CEνNS measurements.
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1 University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and Department of Physics, Chicago, USA (GRID:grid.170205.1) (ISNI:0000 0004 1936 7822)
2 Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universitat de Valéncia and CSIC, Edificio Institutos Investigación, Valencia, Spain (GRID:grid.470047.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2178 9889)
3 Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Evanston, USA (GRID:grid.16753.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2299 3507); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, USA (GRID:grid.417851.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0675 0679)
4 Departament de Fisica Quantica i Astrofisica and Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (GRID:grid.5841.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0247)
5 Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain (GRID:grid.452382.a) (ISNI:0000 0004 1768 3100); Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain (GRID:grid.424810.b) (ISNI:0000 0004 0467 2314)
6 Departament de Fisica Quantica i Astrofisica and Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (GRID:grid.5841.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0247); Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain (GRID:grid.425902.8) (ISNI:0000 0000 9601 989X); C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA (GRID:grid.36425.36) (ISNI:0000 0001 2216 9681); Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain (GRID:grid.452382.a) (ISNI:0000 0004 1768 3100)
7 Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain (GRID:grid.452382.a) (ISNI:0000 0004 1768 3100)
8 Instituto Gallego de Física de Altas Energías, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (GRID:grid.11794.3a) (ISNI:0000000109410645)




