2-6 November 2015
Playa Mazatlán Beach Hotel
Mexico/BajaSur timezone
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Speakers
- Dr. Alexis AGUILAR-AREVALO
Primary authors
- Dr. Alexis AGUILAR-AREVALO (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM)
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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.