Speaker
Description
The PALEOCCENE concept offers the potential for room-temperature, passive, crystal-based detectors for the detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events. Nuclear recoil events can be caused by coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS), neutron scattering, or dark matter scattering and therefore, PALEOCCENE could find applications in all three areas. Nuclear recoils result in damage to the crystal lattice, in some cases, producing optically active sites called color centers. Sensitivity to rare low-energy events via optical detection of single color center fluorescence in bulk volumes is envisaged via light sheet microscopy. A multi-disciplinary collaboration of experts in particle, solid state and nuclear physics, as well as dark matter detection and nuclear engineering has started an R&D program to investigate the feasibility of this concept. In this presentation, I will provide the most recent results of on-going experiments into various aspects of PALEOCCENE.
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