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Title : Mineral Detectors for Neutrinos Speaker Name: Patrick Stengel Speaker Institution : Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Notes: Speaker bio: Patrick Stengel completed his PhD at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2016 and then held a joint postdoc appointment at the University of Michigan (USA) and Stockholm University (Sweden) from 2016-2020. He was also a postdoc at SISSA (Italy) from 2020-2022 and at INFN Ferrara Division (Italy) from 2022-2024.
He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Actions (MSCA COFUND) fellow at the Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) with grants from the SMASH (2024-2026) and SQUASH (2026-2029) programs, respectively focused on AI/ML applications and quantum phenomena, investigating searches for new physics at collider experiments, in mineral detectors and in early universe cosmology.
Abstract : Mineral detectors are a novel probe of neutrino physics. Low effective nuclear recoil energy detection thresholds allow mineral detectors to potentially measure coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering. Mineral detectors are also envisioned to have exposures comparable to neutrino observatories and, thus, could probe the nuclear recoil signatures of astrophysical neutrino fluxes. While inaccessible to conventional neutrino observatories, mineral detectors could measure the evolution of solar neutrino fluxes over geological timescales, which could shed light on the solar composition problem. Mineral detectors could also measure changes in the flux of neutrinos from galactic core-collapse supernovae, probing associated changes in the supernova rate and, hence, the Milky Way’s star formation history and the flavor content of supernova neutrino bursts. Atmospheric neutrinos interact with atomic nuclei predominantly via quasi-elastic and deep-inelastic scattering. Searching for the damage features produced by the corresponding nuclear recoil cascades may allow mineral detectors to probe the cosmic ray history of the Milky Way.
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