Deployment and performance of a Low-Energy-Threshold Skipper-CCD inside a nuclear reactor

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.07885
• Publication Date: 2024-01-01
• Authors: Eliana Depaoli; Darío Rodrígues; I. Sidelnik; P. Bellino; Ana Martina Botti; D. Delgado; Mariano Cababié; Fernando Chierchie; Juan Estrada; Guillermo Fernánd...; Santiago Pérez; J. Tiffenberg
• Keywords: Low energy

Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are used for reactor neutrino experiments and already shown their potential in constraining new physics models. The prospect of a Skipper-CCD experiment looking standard beyond model (BSM) nuclear has been recently evaluated different benchmark scenarios. Here we report the installation first 2 g inside containment building GW$_{th}$ power plant, positioned 12 meters from center core. We discuss challenges involved commissioning detector present data acquired during ON OFF periods, with operating sub-electron readout noise 0.17 e-. ongoing efforts to improve sensitivities CEvNS BSM interaction also discussed.