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.
Author
Anna Suliga
(UC Berkeley)
Co-author
Prof.
John Beacom
(OSU)
