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How do neutrinos reveal the hidden structure inside germanium nuclei?

Valentina De Romeri, Laura Duque, Dimitrios K. Papoulias, G. Sanchez Garcia, Christoph A. Ternes

May 26, 2026

Physicists merged data from COHERENT and CONUS+ experiments—one using pion-decay neutrinos, the other reactor antineutrinos—to measure germanium's neutron distribution with unprecedented precision. The dual approach lets them pin down the neutron skin thickness and test electroweak physics at low momentum transfer, while carefully mapping out how nuclear uncertainty affects the results.
Published as Refined extraction of electroweak and nuclear parameters from germanium CE$ν$NS data arXiv:2605.27121
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