Passive Low-Energy Nuclear-Recoil Detection with Color Centers

Cogswell, Bernadette K.; Goel, Apurva; Huber, Patrick

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.16.064060

Title: Passive Low-Energy Nuclear-Recoil Detection with Color Centers

Journal Article · 27 December 2021 · Physical Review Applied

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.16.064060 · OSTI ID:1841557

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Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV)/UM
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Crystal-damage events such as tracks and point defects have been used to record and detect radiation for a long time and recently they have been proposed as a means for dark-matter detection. Color centers can be read out optically and we propose a scheme based on selective plane illumination microscopy for micrometer-scale imaging of large volumes corresponding to kilogram mass detectors. This class of detectors would be passive and would operate at room temperature and we call this the passive low-energy optical color-center nuclear-recoil (PALEOCCENE) detection method. We apply these concepts to the detection of reactor neutrinos using coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CE ν NS). Crystal-damage formation energies are intrinsically on the order of 25 eV, resulting in similarly low nuclear-recoil thresholds. Furthermore, this would enable the observation of reactor-neutrino CE ν NS with detectors as small as 10 g. Additionally, a competitive search for spin-dependent dark-matter scattering down to a dark-matter mass of 0.3 GeV could be possible. Passive crystal detectors might also be attractive for nuclear-nonproliferation safeguards if used to monitor reactor power and to put limits on plutonium production. The passive nature and small footprint of the proposed detectors implies that these might fit well within accepted reactor-safeguards operations.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003920

OSTI ID:: 1841557

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Journal Name: Physical Review Applied Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 16; ISSN 2331-7019

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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