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I just want to know how to detect neutrinos in a more affortable and feasible way. This is not an engineering question, this is an experimental physics question and in some parts conceptually a theoretical physics question. I hope this does not get flagged as an opinion-based question, please don't.

How do you detect Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS)?

*This question is similar to: Is a DIY neutrino detector feasible?. The difference between my question, and the old one is that the question is from over 8 years ago. Naturally, some of the answers are outdated and the links to materials they provide are all expired. Additionally, we now have neutrino detectors the size of milk jugs, so now a DIY Neutrino Detector is much more feasible than the answers in the older question indicated. Given this, I ask my questions because I want to know how feasible it is today, and what is required to make it.

*Milkjug-sized neutrino detector (the COHERENT neutrino detector):

*miniTimeCube detector:

How does the COHERENT neutrino detector, neutrinos and CEvNS?

What is used to detect CEvNS?

Considering that we now have neutrino detectors the size of milk jugs, how might one make their own neutrino detector?

What might you need if you had a large budget to make it? And what would you need if you had a limited budget?

Are any of the supplies you might need to build your own neutrino detector be cheaper if you made them yourself?

What might a 'shopping list' for building your own neutrino detector look like?

Why might the smallest neutrino detector work despite its incredibly small size?