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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 24: Eingeladene Vorträge (Invited Topical Talks) I
T 24.3: Invited Topical Talk
Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 15:00–15:30, Audimax
The NUCLEUS experiment - New physics with coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering — •Raimund Strauss — Technische Universität München
The detection of coherent-neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS) opens a new window to study the fundamental properties of neutrinos and to probe physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. NUCLEUS is a novel cryogenic neutrino experiment at a nuclear power reactor which allows for precision measurements of CEvNS at unprecedentedly low energies. It is based on recently demonstrated ultra-low threshold cryogenic detectors with nuclear-recoil energy thresholds in the 10eV regime. Accessing these energies enables to fully exploit the strongly enhanced cross section of CEvNS which leads to a miniaturization of neutrino detectors. NUCLEUS is fully funded and will be installed at a new experimental site in between the two 4GW reactor cores of the CHOOZ nuclear power plant in France. In this talk, I will present recent results from a prototype detector as well as the physics program of NUCLEUS, and give an overview of the growing field of CEvNS.