Searching signature of neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering with M\"ossbauer Spectroscopy

TL;DR

This paper proposes using M"ossbauer spectroscopy as a novel method to detect coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering, leveraging nuclear perturbations caused by neutrino interactions to identify scattering events.

Contribution

It introduces M"ossbauer spectroscopy as an alternative detection technique for CENNS, highlighting its potential to observe neutrino interactions through nuclear resonance perturbations.

Findings

M"ossbauer spectroscopy can detect nuclear perturbations caused by neutrino interactions.

Anti neutrino reactor beams can produce measurable signatures of CENNS.

The method offers a new approach for neutrino detection at low energies.

Abstract

The M\"ossbauer spectroscopy is presented as an alternative experimental technique to be pursued in the detec-tion of Coherent Elastic{\nu}-Nucleus Scattering (CENNS). The neutrino transferred energy in the neutrino-nucleusinteraction causes a perturbation at the nuclear levels which are responsible for gamma radiation in M\"ossbauerresonance. The main characteristic of M\"ossbauer spectroscopy is the recoil less condition imposed on the nucleiimposed by quantum restrictions of the crystalline array potential. Coherent neutrino scattering is expected tooccurs low energy regime of the beam, typically below 30 MeV, at higher neutrino energies small incoherencecomponent appears in the scattering[30] as disturbances within the internal nuclear degrees of freedom. Inthis work we have shown that using anti neutrino reactor beam, with the accuracy of M\"ossbauer technique itspossible to obtain a measurable signature of the Coherent neutrino Scattering.