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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 102: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik III

T 102.6: Talk

Thursday, March 3, 2016, 18:05–18:20, VMP9 SR 07

Meeting the future of coherent neutrino scattering - A feasibility study for upcoming reactor experiments — Marco Salathe and •Thomas Rink — Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Deutschland

Due to ongoing progress in detector development and background suppression techniques first evidence of neutrino coherent scattering seems reachable in future experiments. In recent years efforts have been enhanced to detect this effect with germanium detectors. This work aims at summarizing and improving past studies on the potential of an experiment at a reactor site to a new level of accuracy by using the most recent neutrino spectra, knowledge gained in recent detector developments and in contrast to prior studies an energy-dependent quenching factor. The influence of the main parameters (background suppression, detector resolution and threshold, reactor spectra, different isotopes) of a germanium detector experiment is presented and the sensitivities regarding the main reaction channels are calculated. The results were obtained through two independent methods; an algebraic computation and a numerical simulation. Both methods reveal the most important experimental parameters and clarify the state of the art challenges that research has to meet in such an experiment.