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CONUS · 2024

Final CONUS Results on Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the Brokdorf Reactor

Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 251802 · 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.251802

arXiv:2401.07684JournalINSPIREAll papers

Measurements

CurrentFlavorTargetTopologyTypeObservablesEnergy
NCν̄eGeCEvNStotalfinal CONUS reactor CEvNS resultreactor antineutrinos, ~MeV

Abstract

The Conus experiment studies coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in four 1 kg germanium spectrometers. Low ionization energy thresholds of 210 eV were achieved. The detectors were operated inside an optimized shield at the Brokdorf nuclear power plant which provided a reactor antineutrino flux of up to 2.3⋅\cdot1013^{13} cm−2^{-2}s−1^{-1}. In the final phase of data collection at this site, the constraints on the neutrino interaction rate were improved by an order of magnitude as compared to the previous Conus analysis. The new limit of less than 0.34 signal events kg−1^{-1} d−1^{-1} is within a factor 2 of the rate predicted by the standard model. This constraint is discussed in the context of conflicting measurements and results from another reactor neutrino experiment using similar technology.

Citation

@article{CONUSCollaboration:2024kvo,
  collaboration = "CONUS",
  title = "{Final CONUS Results on Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the Brokdorf Reactor}",
  eprint = "2401.07684",
  doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.251802",
  journal = "Phys.Rev.Lett.",
  volume = "133",
  pages = "251802",
  year = "2024",
}