2-6 November 2015
Playa Mazatlán Beach Hotel
Mexico/BajaSur timezone
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Ulises 2
Physics Beyond the Standard Model

The CONNIE experiment

Speakers

  • Dr. Alexis AGUILAR-AREVALO

Primary authors

Description

The CONNIE experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs as particle detectors in an attempt to measure for the first time the Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering of antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor with silicon (Si) nuclei. The low energy threshold (of order ~10 eV), and the relatively large mass of the CONNIE CCDs make them an ideal detector technology to observe this process, which is predicted by the Standard Model. In 2014 a prototype detector was installed 30 m from the core of one of the reactors at the ANGRA nuclear power plant in Brazil, where the characterization of the detectors response to the backgrounds is being studied. This talk will discuss the potential of CONNIE to perform this measurement, the installation progress at the ANGRA nuclear plant, as well as the plans for future upgrades.