I don't know precisely what subject mine will be, I still have until about April to determine it. But it will involve a program that the professor has written and I and the other 2 graduate students will be adding some features to it probably. I don't fully understand what yours was about, I haven't studied physics enough for that
I am very much looking forward to listening to that as your work progresses! We should have a bachelor thesis thread in GD for us Uni people
Anyway, put it like that: when I repeatedly fire a neutrino onto one electron, the latter will be affected (that is recoil with a kinetic energy T) roughly once every 10^45 times (one billionth billionth billionth billionth billionth chance of interaction, it's rather unlikely, as you see!), which is the order of magnitude of its cross section at a fixed reasonable energy. If I suppose that the neutrino has a magnetic moment as an intrinsecal feature, then there will be another term to add to the cross section, making it slightly bigger than 10^-45. This means that the electron will be affected slightly more often.
Fortunately, neutrinos are everywhere and in big numbers, and a detector with a huge number of electrons can be easily built (everything has a huge number of electrons!). So, if you camp near a nuclear reactor with a big detector made of those crystals I mentioned earlier on, you should be able to record every interactions and see that the actual number is higher than the number statistically expected when ignoring the magnetic moment.
According to the calculations I made with a code simulation, you would expect about 217 interactions per day in a detector made of 2 tons of those crystals, assuming the magnetic moment has a definite value I choose for various reasons. If there were no magnetic moment, we should only expect 215 interactions per day.
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