Conveners
New detectors and applications
- Kate Scholberg (Duke University)
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is a neutral-current process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus, depositing a tiny recoil energy. The process is important in core-collapse supernovae and also presents an opportunity for detection of a burst of core-collapse supernova neutrinos in low-threshold detectors designed for dark matter detection. Here we present an...
Topics from Tokyo workshop "Dark matter searches in the 2020s - At the crossroads of the WIMP".
Paleo-detectors are a proposed experimental technique in which one would search for traces of recoiling nuclei in ancient minerals. Natural minerals on Earth are as old as $\mathcal{O}(1)\,$Gyr and, in many minerals, the damage tracks left by recoiling nuclei are also preserved for time scales long compared to $1\,$Gyr once created. Thus, even reading out relatively small target samples of...
Plans towards CEvNS observation with LAr detectors at nuclear reactors and possibilities in nuclear safeguards.
Emerging technology and nonproliferation.
