The PALEOCCENE concept offers the potential for room-temperature, passive and robust detectors in the gram to kilogram range for the detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events. Nuclear recoil events can be caused by neutron scattering, coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS) or dark matter scattering and therefore, PALEOCCENE could find applications in all three areas. In this white paper we present current and planned R&D efforts to study the feasibility of this technique.
@article{arxiv.2203.05525,
title = {Passive low energy nuclear recoil detection with color centers -- PALEOCCENE},
author = {Krystal Alfonso and Gabriela R. Araujo and Laura Baudis and Nathaniel Bowden and Bernadette K. Cogswell and Anna Erickson and Michelle Galloway and Adam A. Hecht and Rathsara R. H. Herath Mudiyanselage and Patrick Huber and Igor Jovanovic and Giti A. Khodaparast and Brenden A. Magill and Thomas O'Donnell and Nicholas W. G. Smith and Xianyi Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05525},
year = {2022}
}
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22 pages, 6 figures, comments welcome. White paper contribution to Snowmass 2021