Event Reconstruction Techniques for a (Water-based) Liquid Scintillator Detector

26 Jul 2017, 14:30
15m
C-114

C-114

Contributed talk New Technologies New Technologies

Speaker

Andrey Elagin (University of Chicago)

Description

By reconstructing the arrival position and time of photons produced in
water or liquid scintillator on highly segmented fast photo-detectors one can
reconstruct tracks by using the `drift time' of photons, much as one does
with electrons in a Time Projection Chamber. I will present recent advances in event reconstruction techniques that are being developed in the context of a recently proposed THEIA detector with a broad physics program including
neutrinoless double beta decay, solar neutrinos, geo-neutrinos, supernova neutrinos, nucleon decay, and long baseline neutrino physics.

Primary author

Andrey Elagin (University of Chicago)

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