CRESST-III observes a 1.11 keV nuclear-recoil peak in an Al2O3 crystal during AmBe neutron irradiation, attributed to 27Al neutron capture, providing a new low-energy calibration line for cryogenic detectors.
Calculation of crystal defects induced in CaWO$_{4}$ by 100 eV displacement cascades using a linear Machine Learning interatomic potential
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We determine the energy stored in the crystal defects induced by $\mathcal{O}(10-100)$\,eV nuclear recoils in low-threshold CaWO$_{4}$ cryogenic detectors. A Machine Learning interatomic potential is developed to perform molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the energy spectra expected from Dark Matter and neutrino coherent scattering are affected by the crystal defects and we provide reference predictions. We discuss the special case of the spectrum of nuclear recoils induced by neutron capture, which could offer a unique sensitivity to the calculated stored energies.
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Observation of a low energy nuclear recoil peak in the neutron calibration data of an Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$ crystal in CRESST-III
CRESST-III observes a 1.11 keV nuclear-recoil peak in an Al2O3 crystal during AmBe neutron irradiation, attributed to 27Al neutron capture, providing a new low-energy calibration line for cryogenic detectors.