Coherent neutrino scattering with low temperature bolometers at Chooz reactor complex

• Main Authors: Billard, J (Author), Carr, Rachel (Author), Dawson, J (Author), Figueroa-Feliciano, E (Author), Formaggio, Joseph A (Author), Gascon, J (Author), Heine, Sarah N.T (Author), Jesus, M De (Author), Johnston, J (Author), Lasserre, T (Author), Leder, A (Author), Palladino, K J (Author), Sibille, Valerian (Author), Vivier, M (Author), Winslow, Lindley (Author), Johnston, Joseph Patrick (Author), Leder, Alexander Friedrich (Author)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing, 2019-06-11T21:02:48Z.
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 We present the potential sensitivity of a future recoil detector for a first detection of the process of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEνNS). We use the Chooz reactor complex in France as our luminous source of reactor neutrinos. Leveraging the ability to cleanly separate the rate correlated with the reactor thermal power against (uncorrelated) backgrounds, we show that a 10 kg cryogenic bolometric array with 100 eV threshold should be able to extract a CEνNS signal within one year of running. Keywords: neutrino coherent scattering; reactor neutrinos; phonon detectors