18–22 Feb 2019
Vienna University of Technology
Europe/Vienna timezone

NU-CLEUS: Exploring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering with cryogenic detectors

19 Feb 2019, 17:45
20m
EI8

EI8

Talk Dark matter and other low-background experiments Dark matter and other low-background experiments

Speaker

Mr Alexander Langenkämper (Physikdepartement E15, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany)

Description

The detection of coherent-neutrino nucleus scattering (CEνNS) opens the door for new physics within and beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. NU-CLEUS is a novel neutrino experiment at a nuclear power reactor which allows for precision measurements with a novel cryogenic gram-scale detector design based on CRESST technology. A recent prototype detector has achieved an ultra-low energy threshold of 20eV for nuclear recoils, one order of magnitude lower than previous devices. The NU-CLEUS experimental concept contains a fiducial-volume cryogenic detector concept, which is expected to significantly reduce backgrounds. The NU-CLEUS experiment aims to operate at close distance to a power reactor; a promising site at the CHOOZ power plant in France is currently being investigated. In this talk we present in detail the cryogenic detector technology of NU-CLEUS and report about the strategy of the new experiment which has recently been fully funded.

Primary authors

Mr Alexander Langenkämper (Physikdepartement E15, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany) Dr Raimund Strauss (Physikdepartement E15, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany) Prof. Stefan Schönert (Physikdepartement E15, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany) Dr Matthieu Vivier (Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives, Centre de Saclay, DRF/Irfu, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France) Dr Thierry Lasserre (Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives, Centre de Saclay, DRF/Irfu, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France) Prof. Jochen Schieck (Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1050 Wien, Austria) Dr Federica Petricca (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 München, Germany)

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