Speaker
Obada Nairat
Description
Solar neutrinos offer crucial insights into neutrino properties and serve as a powerful probe of flavor oscillations in matter. However, detecting them requires effective suppression of backgrounds. One of these is spallation backgrounds—beta decays of unstable isotopes produced by cosmic-ray muons— which pose a major challenge above 5 MeV. We show that neutron tagging, made possible by the recent addition of dissolved gadolinium, provides a powerful new method to identify and reject these backgrounds. This technique is particularly relevant for future shallower detectors like Hyper-Kamiokande and JUNO.
Author
Co-authors
Prof.
John Beacom
Shirley Li
(UC Irvine)
