24–28 May 2021
America/Vancouver timezone

Antineutrino sensitivity at Theia

26 May 2021, 05:00
30m
Poster Experiments: Neutrino Posters: Neutrino Experiments

Speaker

Stephane Zsoldos (University of California, Berkeley)

Description

Theia is a proposed large-scale novel neutrino detector designed with the ability to discriminate between Cherenkov and scintillation signals. The baseline design consists of a cylindrical tank viewed by inward-looking PMTs and filled with water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS), a novel target which would combine reconstruction of particle direction from the Cherenkov signal, with the energy resolution and low threshold of a scintillator detector. Theia would have a broad physics program ranging from low-E solar to high-E accelerator neutrinos.

In this presentation, we focus on the low-E antineutrinos detected via inverse beta decay interactions on protons. Using WbLS as target material for a 25 kT detector located at SURF, we present results for the sensitivity of Theia to both geo- and reactor antineutrinos. Moreover, separation between Cherenkov and scintillation signals offers particle identification capabilities for an additional discrimination between signal and background.

TIPP2020 abstract resubmission? No, this is an entirely new submission.

Primary author

Stephane Zsoldos (University of California, Berkeley)

Co-authors

Dr Morgan Askins (UC Berkeley) Dr Zara Bagdasarian (UC Berkeley) Mr Andrew Barna Dr Stephen Dye (University of Hawaii) Dr Gabriel D, Orebi Gann (UC Berkeley)

Presentation materials