Event category: Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminars

Sept. 1, 2017, 4:00 pm
Kate Scholberg, Duke
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) is a process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus at low momentum transfer, and for which the observable signature is a low-energy nuclear recoil.  It represents a background for direct dark matter detection experiments, as well as a possible signal for astrophysical neutrinos.  Furthermore, because the process... More »