  The PALEOCCENE concept offers the potential for room-temperature, passive and
robust detectors in the gram to kilogram range for the detection of low-energy
nuclear recoil events. Nuclear recoil events can be caused by neutron
scattering, coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS) or dark matter
scattering and therefore, PALEOCCENE could find applications in all three
areas. In this white paper we present current and planned R&D efforts to study
the feasibility of this technique.
