June 22, 2026 to July 18, 2026
Lead/Deadwood Middle School
US/Mountain timezone

A SURF Low Background Liquid Argon Module for Enhanced Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics Searches

Jul 16, 2026, 2:00 PM
45m
Lead/Deadwood Middle School

Lead/Deadwood Middle School

(0.3 miles, 7 min walk from hotel)

Speaker

Juergen Reichenbacher (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

Description

With radiopurity controls and targeted design modifications a kton-scale liquid argon time projection chamber similar to DUNE could be used for both enhanced high mass WIMP dark matter search and enhanced low energy neutrino physics searches. This includes improved sensitivity to supernova and solar neutrinos, and other rare event searches, especially high mass WIMP dark matter, while simultaneously serving long-baseline neutrino physics. This talk will present simulation studies to evaluate physics sensitivities of such a module. It will also discuss R&D to develop large-scale radiopurity controls necessary to construct such a detector.

Author

Juergen Reichenbacher (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

Presentation materials