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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…

CONUS is a novel experiment aiming at detecting elastic neutrino nucleus scattering in the fully coherent regime using high-purity Germanium (Ge) detectors and a reactor as antineutrino ($\bar\nu$) source. The detector setup is installed at…

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

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…

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…

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…

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 has recently reported the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) of reactor antineutrinos on germanium nuclei and is now entering a precision phase. The dominant uncertainty in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-29 E. Sánchez García , Y. Shi , N. Ackermann , H. Bonet , C. Buck , J. Hakenmüller , G. Heusser , M. Lindner , W. Maneschg , M. Meier , S. Mertens , D. Piani , T. Rink , H. Strecker

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

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+ 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

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

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) offers a unique way to study neutrino properties and to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Nuclear reactors are promising sources to explore this process at low…

The deployment of a low-noise 3 kg p-type point contact germanium detector at the Dresden-II power reactor, 8 meters from its 2.96 GW$_{th}$ core, is described. This location provides an unprecedented (anti)neutrino flux of 8.1$\times…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-10-13 J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , T. W. Hossbach , A. R. L. Kavner , C. M. Lewis , A. E. Robinson , K. M. Yocum

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a key process for probing Standard Model and beyond the Standard Model (BSM) properties. Following its first detection by the COHERENT Collaboration, recent reactor-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti

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…

The 96.4 day exposure of a 3 kg ultra-low noise germanium detector to the high flux of antineutrinos from a power nuclear reactor is described. A very strong preference ($p<1.2\times10^{-3}$) for the presence of a coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-22 J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , T. W. Hossbach , C. M. Lewis , K. M. Yocum
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