https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7240-3
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Coherent elastic nuclear scattering of 
Cr neutrinos
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, 00185, Italy
2
INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, Milano, 20126, Italy
4
INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
5
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, 16146, Italy
6
INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
* e-mail: marco.vignati@roma1.infn.it
Received:
3
June
2019
Accepted:
21
August
2019
Published online:
29
August
2019
Searches for new physics in the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering require a precise knowledge of the neutrino flux and energy spectrum. In this paper we investigate the feasibility and the performance of an experiment based on a Cr source, whose neutrino spectrum is known and whose activity can be heat-monitored at few permil level. With a 5 MCi source placed at 
cm from the detector, under an exposure of two Cr half-lives (55.4 days), we evaluate 3900 (900) counts on a 2000 cm
target of germanium (sapphire) featuring an energy threshold of 8 (20) eV. To further increase the exposure, multiple activations of the same source could be possible.
© The Author(s), 2019
