“Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino”

Kate Scholberg

Duke University

• Monday April 29th, 2019 at 4:00 PM
• 120 Engineering (Hammond Auditorium)

Neutrinos interact only rarely with matter. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) was first predicted in 1974; it’s a process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus. By neutrino standards, CEvNS occurs frequently, but it is tremendously challenging to see [Read more…]