30 July 2026 to 5 August 2026
Natal, Brazil
America/Sao_Paulo timezone

Development of the Arapuca technology for hybrid Cherenkov and scintillation detectors for neutrino physics

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20m
Natal, Brazil

Natal, Brazil

Via Costeira Sen. Dinarte Medeiros Mariz, 6664-6704 - Ponta Negra, Natal - RN, 59090-002
Poster Neutrino Physics

Speaker

Ana Amelia Machado (UNICAMP)

Description

The Arapuca technnology was pioneering in the use of dichroic filters as a light trap component of wide area photon counting devices in large liquid argon detectors for neutrino physics. It is the technology of choice for the SBND and DUNE experiments, and several of the R&D paths being explored for DUNE phase II are based on it as well. This talk will present the concept and initial development of a novel spin-off of the Arapuca concept aimed at the spectral separation of Cherenkov and scintillation photons. The goal is to achieve a class of detectors that is able to separate Cherenkov light from a larger flux of scintillation photons, with a modular, mostly flat design capable of maximizing geometrical efficiency in a real detector that may combine different technologies. Such a design may be used in future hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors aimed at combining improved sensitivity in double beta decay searches and low energy solar neutrinos with high energy beam neutrinos.

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Authors

Ana Amelia Machado (UNICAMP) Anderson Fauth (State University of Campinas) Ettore Segreto (UNICAMP) Jose Maneira (Ciências ULisboa/LIP)

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