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Description
COSINUS (Cryogenic Observatory for SIgnatures seen in Next-generation Underground Searches) is an underground cryogenic sodium iodide (NaI) experiment for the direction detection of dark matter. The experimental facility consists of a water Cherenkov muon veto surrounding the dilution refrigerator that holds NaI detector modules. Both the veto and the modules are sensitive to neutrinos given a sufficient flux, such as from a core-collapse supernova. The water tank main detection channel is inverse beta decay, while the cryogenic detectors are mainly sensitive to neutrinos through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS). The cryogenic detectors are sensitive to neutrinos from supernova that are hundreds of parsecs away, but are much less susceptible to pile-up from close supernova neutrinos compared to larger detectors. The water tank is sensitive to supernova that are tens of kiloparsecs away mainly due to the higher mass of the water compared to the mass of the NaI.
| Poster prize | No |
|---|---|
| Given name | Max |
| Surname | Hughes |
| First affiliation | Max Plank Institute for Physics |
| Institutional email | hughes@mpp.mpg.de |
| Gender | Male |
| Collaboration (if any) | COSINUS |
