Q-Array Deployment and Science Analysis for the Ricochet Experiment

跳弹实验的 Q 阵列部署和科学分析

• 批准号: 2209585
• 负责人: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano
• 金额: $ 88.85万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-15 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2209585&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Array; Deployment; Science; Analysis; Ricochet

Neutrinos, the “ghost” particles of fundamental physics, are the only know particle that clearly shows deviations from the predictions the standard model of particle physics. The Ricochet experiment will probe neutrinos using a new interaction which was only discovered in 2017 and provides a new way to study neutrino properties and possibly understand why neutrinos deviate from standard model predictions. Neutrinos might hold the key to understanding new physics beyond our current models; finding and understanding these new physics is a top question in nuclear and particle physics today and would lay the groundwork for a completely new revolution in nuclear, particle, and quantum physics. Ricochet will place an array of 36 detectors operating at a temperature just above absolute zero and eight meters from the core of a nuclear reactor in Grenoble, France. Nuclear reactors are the world’s strongest neutrino sources and placing these low-energy-threshold detectors so close to the reactor core will allow detection of tens of neutrino events per day, enabling the most accurate neutrino spectrum measurement to date. This project serves as a training ground for future scientists, as most of this work is done by graduate students and postdocs who not only design and fabricate the detectors but put together and operate the experiment and analyze and publish the results. This work has the following objectives: (1) design, build, install, commission, and operate nine of the detectors for Ricochet Phase 1 at the ILL nuclear reactor, (2) perform the analysis of the Ricochet data from all 36 crystals to produce the highest precision Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) spectrum measurement to date and search for new physics, (3) continue Northwestern’s synergistic R&D program to use our Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) detectors for future CEvNS and neutrinoless double-beta decay (0nbb) experiments, and (4) train a new generation of neutrino experimental physicists. The Q-array is a 9-detector instrument that will demonstrate superconducting targets for reactor CEvNS measurements, provide target complementarity to the Ge-based CryoCube (the two of which form the payload of Ricochet phase 1), and lay the groundwork for implementing SQUID multiplexing for future neutrino cryogenic experiments with thousands of TES channels. Northwestern will participate in the full analysis of the Ricochet experiment, combining the 27 Ge detectors from the CryoCube and the nine Zn detectors from the Q-array to obtain world-leading sensitivity to the CEvNS process, making a percent-level measurement of the spectrum, and searching for new physics through Non-Standard Interaction modifications to the spectrum. Northwestern will optimize the TES modular architecture for future CEvNS and 0nbb experiments that will require excellent resolution, fast response, and thousands of channels. This will include demonstration of the TES technology on Lithium-Molybdate crystals in a prototype TES-based detector for CUPID 1-TON, and also demonstrate a TES-based Ge Ricochet Phase 2 detector with ionization readout. These activities will provide fertile ground for training of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates, while sharing the excitement of science with the broader public. Finally, this work has a broad impact that extends beyond neutrino physics. Besides neutrino physics, the detectors being developed will also have applications in nuclear reactor monitoring applications, dark matter, and other low-threshold, high-energy resolution applications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

中微子是基本物理学的“幽灵”颗粒，是唯一清楚地显示出与预测粒子物理的标准模型不同的知识粒子。 Ricochet实验将使用新的相互作用进行探测神经元，该新相互作用仅在2017年发现，并提供了一种研究神经元特性的新方法，并可能理解为什么神经元偏离标准模型预测。中微子可能是了解我们当前模型以外的新物理学的关键；找到和理解这些新物理学是当今核和粒子物理学的主要问题，将为核，粒子和量子物理学的全新革命奠定基础。 Ricochet将在法国格雷诺布尔的核反应堆核心的核心核心高于绝对零的温度下放置36个检测器的阵列。核反应堆是世界上强的神经元来源，并将这些低能阈值检测器放置在靠近反应堆核心的情况下，将允许每天检测到数十个神经元事件，从而实现最准确的神经元测量测量。该项目是未来科学家的培训基础，因为这项工作的大部分是由研究生和博士后完成的，他们不仅设计和制造探测器，而且还组合并进行实验并分析和发布结果。这项工作具有以下目标：（1）设计，构建，安装，委托和操作Ricochet 1阶段在不良核反应堆处的探测器，（2）对所有36个晶体的Ricochet数据进行分析，以产生最高精确的弹性中微子核中核散射（CEVNS）SYSERS SYSILS的最高精确弹性弹性中微子 - 核中核中核核酸含量（CEVNS）的搜索（3）使用我们的过渡边缘传感器（TES）检测器来进行未来的CEVN和神经元双β衰变（0NBB）实验，以及（4）培训新一代的神经元实验物理学家。 Q阵列是一种9个探测器仪器，将证明反应器CEVNS测量的超导目标，为基于GE的基于GE的冷冻管（两种构成Ricochet阶段1的有效载荷）提供目标完整性，并为实施squid squi的有效载荷奠定了基础，以实现未来的神经元实验，并具有数千个TES通道的未来神经元实验。西北部将参与Ricochet实验的完整分析，结合了来自冷冻管的27个GE检测器和Q阵列中的9个Zn检测器，以获得对CEVNS过程的世界领先敏感性，从而使频谱的百分比测量得出了频谱的测量，并通过非标准的互动互动来搜索新的物理学。西北地区将为未来的CEVN和0NBB实验优化TES模块化体系结构，这些结构将需要出色的分辨率，快速响应和数千个渠道。这将包括在基于TES的原型TES检测器1吨的原型检测器中展示TES技术，并演示具有电离读数的基于TES的GE Ricochet 2相2探测器。这些活动将为培训博士后研究人员，研究生和本科生提供肥沃的基础，同时与更广泛的公众分享科学的兴奋。最后，这项工作具有广泛的影响，超出了神经元物理。除了神经元物理外，开发的检测器还将在核反应堆监测应用，暗物质和其他低阈值，高能量分辨率应用中应用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查的审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得的支持。

项目成果

CUPID: The Next-Generation Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment

• DOI: 10.1007/s10909-022-02909-3
• 发表时间: 2022-11
• 期刊: Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: K. Alfonso;A. Armatol;C. Augier;F. Avignone;O. Azzolini;M. Balata;A. Barabash;G. Bari;A. Barresi;D. Baudin;F. Bellini;G. Benato;M. Beretta;M. Bettelli;M. Biassoni;J. Billard;V. Boldrini;A. Branca;C. Brofferio;C. Bucci;J. Camilleri;A. Campani;C. Capelli;S. Capelli;L. Cappelli;L. Cardani;P. Carniti;N. Casali;E. Celi;C. Chang;D. Chiesa;M. Clemenza;I. Colantoni;S. Copello;E. Craft;O. Cremonesi;R. Creswick;A. Cruciani;A. D’Addabbo;G. D’Imperio;S. Dabagov;I. Dafinei;F. Danevich;M. de Jesus;P. de Marcillac;S. Dell’Oro;S. Domizio;S. Lorenzo;T. Dixon;V. Dompè;A. Drobizhev;L. Dumoulin;G. Fantini;M. Faverzani;E. Ferri;F. Ferri;F. Ferroni;E. Figueroa-Feliciano;L. Foggetta;J. Formaggio;A. Franceschi;C. Fu;S. Fu;B. Fujikawa;A. Gallas;J. Gascon;S. Ghislandi;Andrea Giachero;A. Gianvecchio;L. Gironi;A. Giuliani;P. Gorla;C. Gotti;C. Grant;P. Gras;P. Guillaumon;T. Gutierrez;K. Han;E. Hansen;K. Heeger;D. Helis;H. Huang;L. Imbert;J. Johnston;A. Juillard;G. Karapetrov;G. Keppel;H. Khalife;V. Kobychev;Y. Kolomensky;S. Konovalov;R. Kowalski;T. Langford;M. Lefevre;R. Liu;Y. Liu;P. Loaiza;L. Ma;M. Madhukuttan;F. Mancarella;L. Marini;S. Marnieros;M. Martinez;R. Maruyama;P. Mas;B. Mauri;D. Mayer;G. Mazzitelli;Y. Mei;S. Milana;S. Morganti;T. Napolitano;M. Nastasi;J. Nikkel;S. Nisi;C. Nones;E. Norman;V. Novosad;I. Nutini;T. O’Donnell;E. Olivieri;M. Olmi;J. Ouellet;S. Pagan;C. Pagliarone;L. Pagnanini;L. Pattavina;M. Pavan;H. Peng;G. Pessina;V. Pettinacci;C. Pira;S. Pirrò;D. Poda;O. Polischuk;I. Ponce;S. Pozzi;E. Previtali;A. Puiu;S. Quitadamo;A. Ressa;R. Rizzoli;C. Rosenfeld;P. Rosier;J. Scarpaci;B. Schmidt;V. Sharma;V. Shlegel;V. Singh;M. Sisti;P. Slocum;D. Speller;P. T. Surukuchi;L. Taffarello;C. Tomei;J. A. Torres;V. Tretyak;A. Tsymbaliuk;M. Velázquez;K. Vetter;S. Wagaarachchi;G. Wang;Lung-Chuang Wang;R. Wang;B. Welliver;J. Wilson;K. Wilson;L. Winslow;M. Xue;L. Yan;J. Yang;V. Yefremenko;V. Umatov;M. Zarytskyy;J. Zhang;A. Zolotarova;S. Zucchelli

Ricochet Progress and Status

跳弹进度和状态

• DOI: 10.1007/s10909-023-02971-5
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: Augier, C.;Beaulieu, G.;Belov, V.;Berge, L.;Billard, J.;Bres, G.;Bret, J. -L.;Broniatowski, A.;Calvo, M.;Cazes, A.
• 通讯作者: Cazes, A.

Fast neutron background characterization of the future Ricochet experiment at the ILL research nuclear reactor

ILL 研究核反应堆未来跳弹实验的快中子背景特征

• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11150-x
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The European Physical Journal C
• 作者: Augier, C.;Baulieu, G.;Belov, V.;Berge, L.;Billard, J.;Bres, G.;Bret, J-. L.;Broniatowski, A.;Calvo, M.;Cazes, A.
• 通讯作者: Cazes, A.

Optimization of the first CUPID detector module

• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10720-3
• 发表时间: 2022-09-12
• 期刊: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
• 影响因子: 4.4
• 作者: Alfonso, K.;Armatol, A.;Zucchelli, S.
• 通讯作者: Zucchelli, S.