Passive low energy nuclear recoil detection with color centers -- PALEOCCENE

Understand

The PALEOCCENE concept offers the potential for room-temperature, passive and robust detectors in the gram to kilogram range for the detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events.

• Nuclear recoil events can be caused by neutron scattering, coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS) or dark matter scattering and therefore, PALEOCCENE could find applications in all three areas.
• In this white paper we present current and planned R&D efforts to study the feasibility of this technique.