Published October 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Coherent neutrino scattering with low temperature bolometers at Chooz reactor complex

  • 1. Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique nucléaire de Lyon, 4 rue Enrico Fermi, F-69622 France (France)
  • 2. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America (United States)
  • 3. APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 10, rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13 (France)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America (United States)
  • 5. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States of America (United States)
  • 6. Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Centre de Saclay, DRF/Irfu, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)

Description

We present the potential sensitivity of a future recoil detector for a first detection of the process of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CE ν NS). We use the Chooz reactor complex in France as our luminous source of reactor neutrinos. Leveraging the ability to cleanly separate the rate correlated with the reactor thermal power against (uncorrelated) backgrounds, we show that a 10 kg cryogenic bolometric array with 100 eV threshold should be able to extract a CE ν NS signal within one year of running. (paper)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/aa83d0

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
[12 p.]
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
49029699
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CRYOGENICS; DETECTION; NUCLEI; POTENTIALS; REACTOR NEUTRINOS; RECOILS; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY; SIGNALS
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS