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从宇宙学中微子中有效提取能量

Efficiently Extracting Energy from Cosmological Neutrinos

M. M. Hedman

摘要:

探测形成宇宙中微子背景(CNB)的极低能量中微子提出了许多实验挑战,但追求这个难以捉摸的目标仍然是值得的,因为这些弱相互作用粒子可以为早期宇宙的结构和组成提供新的窗口。这份报告探讨了宇宙学中微子是否可以将足够的能量沉积到目标系统中,以便用当前测辐射热技术的合理扩展来探测。虽然宇宙学中微子的宏观波长可以大大增强它们与致密目标的截面,但只有当它们将每个中微子的动能的很大一部分转移到探测器系统中时,这种相互作用才能被探测到。我们发现,一个大阵列的密集的目标质量耦合到合适的运动敏感电路可能会满足这两个条件,从而可能能够作为一个更实用的宇宙学中微子探测器的基础。

英文摘要:

Detecting the extremely low-energy neutrinos that form the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) presents many experimental challenges, but pursuing this elusive goal is still worthwhile because these weakly-interacting particles could provide a new window into the structure and composition of the early universe. This report examines whether cosmological neutrinos can deposit sufficient energy into a target system to be detectable with plausible extensions of current bolometric technologies. While the macroscopic wavelengths of cosmological neutrinos can greatly enhance their cross sections with dense targets, such interactions can only be detectable if they transfer a significant fraction of each neutrino's kinetic energy into the detector system. We find that a large array of dense target masses coupled to suitable motion-sensitive circuits could potentially satisfy both of these conditions and thus might be able to serve as the basis for a more practical cosmological neutrino detector.

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