Conveners
DUNE Phase 2 - Parallel
- Juergen Reichenbacher (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)
DUNE needs 40 kilotons of LAr fiducial mass to achieve its core CPV physics goal specified in the 2014 P5 report. To complete the fiducial mass, the DUNE phase 2 program requires two more FD modules in addition to FD1 and FD2. The construction of phase II FD3 is endorsed in every budget scenario in the 2023 P5 report. DUNE envision its phase II FD3 with a much more capable photon detection...
Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are set to be one of the main detector technologies for the next generation of neutrino experiments. While LArTPCs have already been proven to be exceptional detectors for GeV-scale physics, their sensitivity to the MeV scale is still limited by backgrounds and non-optimal energy resolution.
SoLAr is a R&D project aiming to boost the...
Theia is a proposed large-scale neutrino detector designed to discriminate between Cherenkov and scintillation signals in order to facilitate a rich program of precision and rare-event physics. The baseline design consists of a tank filled with a novel scintillator, such as water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS), along with fast, spectrally-sensitive photon detection, in order to leverage both...
With radiopurity controls and targeted design modifications a kton-scale liquid argon time projection chamber similar to DUNE could be used for enhanced low energy physics searches. This includes improved sensitivity to supernova and solar neutrinos, and other rare event searches. This talk will present simulation studies to evaluate physics sensitivities of such a module. It will also discuss...
Optical readout of large scale dual-phase liquid Argon TPCs is an attractive and cost effective
alternative to charge readout. Following the successful demonstration of 3D optical readout with
the ARIADNE 1-ton detector, the ARIADNE+ experiment was deployed using the
protoDUNE “cold box” at the CERN neutrino platform imaging a much larger active region of
2mx2m. ARIADNE+ uses 4 Timepix3...
