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CONUS+ is an experiment aiming at detecting coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) of reactor antineutrinos on germanium nuclei in the fully coherent regime, continuing the CONUS physics program conducted at the Brokdorf…

The CONUS experiment is searching for coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering of reactor anti-neutrinos with four low energy threshold point-contact high-purity germanium spectrometers. An excellent background suppression within the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-01 H. Bonet , A. Bonhomme , C. Buck , K. Fülber , J. Hakenmüller , J. Hempfling , G. Heusser , T. Hugle , M. Lindner , W. Maneschg , T. Rink , H. Strecker , R. Wink

The Conus experiment studies coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in four 1 kg germanium spectrometers. Low ionization energy thresholds of 210 eV were achieved. The detectors were operated inside an optimized shield at the Brokdorf…

The CONUS+ experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) of reactor antineutrinos on germanium nuclei in the fully coherent regime, continuing on this way the CONUS physics program started at the Brokdorf…

Intense fluxes of reactor antineutrinos offer a unique possibility to probe the fully coherent character of elastic neutrino scattering off atomic nuclei. In this regard, detectors face the challenge to register tiny recoil energies of a…

The detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) opens new possibilities for neutrino physics within and beyond the Standard Model. Following the initial discovery in 2017, several experimental attempts have emerged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Thomas Rink

We report the best limit on coherent elastic scattering of electron antineutrinos emitted from a nuclear reactor off germanium nuclei. The measurement was performed with the CONUS detectors positioned at 17.1m from the 3.9GWth reactor core…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-09 H. Bonet , A. Bonhomme , C. Buck , K. Fülber , J. Hakenmüller , G. Heusser , T. Hugle , M. Lindner , W. Maneschg , T. Rink , H. Strecker , R. Wink

Neutrinos are elementary particles that interact only very weakly with matter. Neutrino experiments are, therefore, usually big, with masses in the multi-tonne range. The thresholdless interaction of coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos…

Its detections with pion-decay-at-rest, solar and recently with reactor antineutrinos by the CONUS collaboration render coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) an established tool for investigations within and beyond the…

The CONUS+ collaboration has reported their first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS). The experiment uses reactor electron antineutrinos and germanium detectors with recoil thresholds as low as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Valentina De Romeri , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Gonzalo Sanchez Garcia

The nuGeN experiment is aimed to investigate neutrino properties using antineutrinos from the reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. The experimental setup is located at about 11 meters from the center of the 3.1 GWth reactor core.…

This work presents the first comprehensive joint analysis of all available Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) data on germanium: those observed at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) by the COHERENT collaboration and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , G. Co' , F. Dordei , C. Giunti

The observation of the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) process using reactor antineutrinos offers a unique opportunity to probe the Standard Model and explore Beyond the Standard Model scenarios. This study reports…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-14 M. Alpízar-Venegas , L. J. Flores , Eduardo Peinado , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

Nuclear reactors represent a promising neutrino source for CE$\nu$NS (coherent-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering) searches. However, reactor sites also come with high ambient neutron flux. Neutron capture-induced nuclear recoils can…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-19 A. J. Biffl , A. Gevorgian , K. Harris , A. N. Villano

The CONNIE detector prototype is operating at a distance of 30 m from the core of a 3.8 GW$_{\rm th}$ nuclear reactor with the goal of establishing Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD) as a new technology for the detection of coherent elastic…

We report first constraints on neutrino electromagnetic properties from neutrino-electron scattering using data obtained from the CONUS germanium detectors, i.e. an upper limit on the effective neutrino magnetic moment and an upper limit on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-31 H. Bonet , A. Bonhomme , C. Buck , K. Fülber , J. Hakenmüller , J. Hempfling , G. Heusser , T. Hugle , M. Lindner , W. Maneschg , T. Rink , H. Strecker , R. Wink

The nuGeN experiment searches for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. A 1.41-kg high-purity low-threshold germanium detector surrounded by active and passive shielding is deployed at the…

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