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Description
Liquid-based detector technologies play a central role in advancing neutrino physics, providing complementary detection concepts across a broad energy range. Current and next-generation neutrino experiments employ Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers, as in DUNE, large transparent Liquid Scintillator detectors, such as JUNO, or Water Cherenkov detectors, exemplified by Hyper-Kamiokande.
These detector technologies are characterised by different balances between spatial resolution, calorimetric performance, light collection and timing performance, and achievable detector scale which in turn define their experimental capabilities and limitations. These large-scale detector implementations provide the target masses and low-background conditions required for precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, determination of the neutrino mass ordering, searches for leptonic CP violation, and observations of neutrinos from astrophysical sources. In addition, emerging concepts such as LiquidO, based on opaque liquid scintillators, aim to extend this landscape by introducing alternative optical regimes and readout strategies, with the potential to enhance event imaging and background rejection.
This talk will review the detection principles and current status of liquid-based neutrino detector technologies and outline how their respective design choices impact the physics reach of next-generation experiments.
