Neutrino interaction: exploring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering with NUCLEUS (N07)

• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 283604770

Coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering CEvNS is moving frontiers in low-energy neutrino physics. The NUCLEUS reactor-neutrino experiment will use cryogenic detectors with a threshold of a few 10's of eV to search for new physics via CEvNS. Project N07 complements these efforts with new calibrations methods for sub-keV energies: dedicated X-ray fluorescence sources for NUCLEUS and a fundamental experiment at the Vienna TRIGA reactor to calibrate nuclear recoils in the 100-eV-regime using neutron capture.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1258: Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics (NDM)
• International Connection: Austria
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität München (TUM)
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Erwin Jericha, since 7/2021; Dr. Raimund Strauss