Speaker
Marie Vidal
Description
NEWS-G (New Experiments With Spheres-Gas) is a rare event search experiment using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs). Primarily designed for the direct detection of dark matter, this technology also has appealing features for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) studies. CE$\nu$NS is a process predicted by the standard model and can be used as a tool to probe new physics and other applications, such as monitoring neutrino flux from nuclear reactors or sterile neutrino search.
The NEWS-G collaboration is studying the feasibility of detecting CE$\nu$NS at a nuclear reactor using an SPC. I will discuss the efforts made by the NEWS-G collaboration to assess the feasibility of such an experiment.
