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Background: The most significant source of background in direct dark matter searches are neutrons that scatter elastically from nuclei in the detector's sensitive volume. Experimental data for the elastic scattering cross section of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 S. MacMullin , M. Kidd , R. Henning , W. Tornow , C. R. Howell , M. Brown

We propose the RES-NOVA project which will hunt neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae (SN) via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) using an array of archaeological lead (Pb) based cryogenic detectors. The high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-03 Luca Pattavina , Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini , Irene Tamborra

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…

Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) provides a sensitive probe of neutrino interactions at low momentum transfer, but its experimental observation is strongly constrained by detector-related effects such as energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-27 Yusuf Havvat

The Simons Observatory is building both large (6 m) and small (0.5 m) aperture telescopes in the Atacama desert in Chile to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with unprecedented sensitivity. Simons Observatory…

We present a new experimental method for measuring the process of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high energy neutrino beam production target. This detector would be…

The state-of-the-art technology of X-ray microcalorimeters based on superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs), for applications in astrophysics and particle physics, is reviewed. We will show the advance in understanding the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Luciano Gottardi , Kenichiro Nagayoshi

Using an 185-kg NaI[Tl] array, COHERENT has measured the inclusive electron-neutrino charged-current cross section on ${}^{127}$I with pion decay-at-rest neutrinos produced by the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.…

Dark matter direct detection experiments can observe solar neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, making it possible to test new physics in the neutrino sector. In this article, we study the sensitivity of RES-NOVA, a…

Potential applications of neutrino detection to nuclear security have been discussed since the 1970s. Recent years have seen great progress in detector technologies based on inverse beta decay, with the demonstration of ton-scale…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-30 Maitland Bowen , Patrick Huber

Operating on a surface with high noise rates and requiring susceptible, yet small-scale detectors, the Neutrinos-Angra detector is an excellent platform for technological development and expertise in new detection methods. This report…

Crystal damage events such as tracks and point defects have been used to record and detect radiation for a long time and recently they have been proposed as a means for dark matter detection. Color centers can be read out optically and we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-22 Bernadette K. Cogswell , Apurva Goel , Patrick Huber

Sterile neutrinos with keV-MeV masses and non-zero transition magnetic moments can be probed through low-energy nuclear or electron recoil measurements. Here we determine the sensitivities of current and future searches, showing how they…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-10 O. G. Miranda , D. K. Papoulias , O. Sanders , M. Tórtola , J. W. F. Valle

Terahertz and sub-terahertz band detection has a key role both in fundamental interactions physics and technological applications, such as medical imaging, industrial quality control and homeland security. In particular, transition edge…

The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new detector concept based on a composite solid scintillator…

The TRACER instrument (``Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation'') has been developed for direct measurements of the heavier primary cosmic-ray nuclei at high energies. The instrument had a successful long-duration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-13 M. Ave , P. J. Boyle , F. Gahbauer , C. Hoppner , J. R. Horandel , M. Ichimura , D. Muller , A. Romero-Wolf

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) have the potential to perform electron spectroscopic measurements with far greater measurement rates and efficiencies than can be achieved using existing electron spectrometers. Existing spectrometers filter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-05 K. M. Patel , S. Withington , A. G . Shard , D. J. Goldie , C. N. Thomas

This work presents the first comprehensive phenomenological analysis of the newly released Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) data on germanium, measured by the COHERENT collaboration at the Spallation Neutron Source.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , R. Cerulli , G. Co' , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , R. Pavarani

Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) carried by X-ray telescopes are powerful tools for the study of neutron stars and black holes. Several methods, such as optimal filtering or principal component analysis, have already been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-12 Paul Ripoche , Jeremy Heyl