IsoDAR and DAEdALUS

29 Aug 2014, 12:00
30m
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (University of Glasgow)

Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre

University of Glasgow

University Avenue Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK

Speaker

Joshua Spitz (MIT)

Description

IsoDAR is a novel experimental concept to use a powerful low energy cyclotron to produce a source of electron antineutrinos. Such a source, when combined with a liquid scintillator based detector such as KamLAND, can provide a direct probe of the reactor antineutrino anomaly and, in general, a definitive probe of the sterile neutrino. Further, IsoDAR can differentiate between one and two sterile neutrinos in many scenarios as well as collect a sample of antineutrino-electron elastic scattering events that is approximately five times greater than has been collected to date. The experiment will be introduced within the context of the overall DAE$\delta$ALUS program for discovering CP violation in the neutrino sector and recent progress will be discussed.
WG1: Neutrino Oscillation Physics (Yes/No) Yes
WG2: Neutrino Scattering Physics (Yes/No) No
WG3: Accelerator Physics (Yes/No) No
WG4: Muon Physics (Yes/No) Yes
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