Aug 7 – 11, 2017
Columbus, Ohio, USA
US/Eastern timezone

Understanding neutron yield from neutrino interactions with ANNIE

Aug 10, 2017, 5:30 PM
15m
Spartan Room (The Athenaeum)

Spartan Room

The Athenaeum

Oral Particle physics (energy frontier, intensity/precision frontier, other theory) Particle physics

Speakers

Dr Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University)Prof. Matthew Wetstein (Iowa State University )

Description

Neutron tagging is a promising experimental technique for separating between signal and background in a wide variety of astroparticle measurement. The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) located along the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab has a goal of measuring the final state neutron multiplicity from charged current neutrino-nucleus interactions within the gadolinium-loaded water. Currently, ANNIE is running in Phase-I and it will be upgraded to Phase-II in the summer of 2017, by installing Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors (LAPPDs) in the detector. LAPPDs are a novel photodetector technology with single photoelectron time resolutions less than 100 picoseconds, and spatial imaging capabilities to within a single centimeter. They will play a crucial role to separate events of charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) interactions and inelastic multi-track charged current interactions. In this talk, we discuss the current status and future plans of the experiment.

Primary authors

Dr Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University) Prof. Matthew Wetstein (Iowa State University )

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