Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Chicago
- Describes the successful detection of long sought-after signals from nuclear recoils
- Provides a thorough background on the subject, covering fundamental concepts as well as existing experiments
- Describes the process of creating and using detector in great detail, from wiring and calibration to measurement and analysis
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
This thesis describes the experimental work that finally led to a successful measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering—a process proposed forty-three years ago. The experiment was performed at the Spallation Neutron Source facility, sited at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee.
Of all known particles, neutrinos distinguish themselves for being the hardest to detect, typically requiring large multi-ton devices for the job. The process measured here involves the difficult detection of very weak signals arising from nuclear recoils (tiny neutrino-induced “kicks” to atomic nuclei), but leads to a much larger probability of neutrino interaction when compared to all other known mechanisms. As a result of this, “neutrino technologies” using miniaturized detectors (the author's was handheld and weighed only 14 kg) become a possibility. A large community of researchers plans to continue studying this process, facilitating an exploration of fundamental neutrinoproperties that is presently beyond the sensitivity of other methods.
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Book Title: First Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
Authors: Bjorn Scholz
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99747-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99746-9Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07629-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99747-6Published: 26 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 144
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 85 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra, Astrophysics and Astroparticles