A Novel Source of Tagged Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils
arXiv:1105.5156 · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2011.07.044
Abstract
For sufficiently wide resonances, nuclear resonance fluorescence behaves like elastic photo-nuclear scattering while retaining the large cross-section characteristic of resonant photo-nuclear absorption. We show that NRF may be used to characterize the signals produced by low-energy nuclear recoils by serving as a novel source of tagged low-energy nuclear recoils. Understanding these signals is important in determining the sensitivity of direct WIMP dark-matter and coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering searches.
4 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables
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