Speaker
Anna Suliga
(UC Berkeley)
Description
We examine the possibility of detecting atmospheric neutrinos using the nuclear reactions in large-scale neutrino detectors. The proposed methods allow to measure the low-energy atmospheric rate to a level of approximately 10-30\% depending on the efficiency of the background discrimination techniques. In addition, a better understanding of the low-energy atmospheric neutrino background is essential to improve the detection perspective of the diffuse supernova neutrino background and the direct detection of dark matter.
Primary author
Anna Suliga
(UC Berkeley)
Co-author
Prof.
John Beacom
(OSU)
