Speaker
Dr
Alfredo Giuseppe Cocco
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
We present a study on the interaction of low energy electron
neutrinos on nuclei that undergo both beta decay and electron
capture. We show that, due to the absence of an energy threshold and
to the relatively high value of the cross section, these processes
are the only ones to date having a realistic chance to unambiguously
detect the yet undiscovered cosmological relic neutrino background.
