Journal Article

FZJ-2021-01046

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Theia: an advanced optical neutrino detector

Askins, M. ; Bagdasarian, Z. ; Barros, N. ; Beier, E. W. ; Blucher, E. ; Bonventre, R. ; Bourret, E. ; Callaghan, E. J. ; Caravaca, J. ; Diwan, M. ; Dye, S. T. ; Eisch, J. ; Elagin, A. ; Enqvist, T. ; Fischer, V. ; Frankiewicz, K. ; Grant, C. ; Guffanti, D. ; Hagner, C. ; Hallin, A. ; Jackson, C. M. ; Jiang, R. ; Kaptanoglu, T. ; Klein, J. R. ; Kolomensky, Y. G. ; Kraus, C. ; Krennrich, F. ; Kutter, T. ; Lachenmaier, T. ; Land, B. ; Lande, K. ; Learned, J. G. ; Lozza, V. ; Ludhova, L. (Corresponding author)FZJ* ; Malek, M. ; Manecki, S. ; Maneira, J. ; Maricic, J. ; Martyn, J. ; Mastbaum, A. ; Mauger, C. ; Moretti, F. ; Napolitano, J. ; Naranjo, B. ; Nieslony, M. ; Oberauer, L. ; Orebi Gann, G. D. ; Ouellet, J. ; Pershing, T. ; Petcov, S. T. ; Pickard, L. ; Rosero, R. ; Sanchez, M. C. ; Sawatzki, J. ; Seo, S. H. ; Smiley, M. ; Smy, M. ; Stahl, A.RWTH*FZJ* ; Steiger, H. ; Stock, M. R. ; Sunej, H. ; Svoboda, R. ; Tiras, E. ; Trzaska, W. H. ; Tzanov, M. ; Vagins, M. ; Vilela, C. ; Wang, Z. ; Wang, J. ; Wetstein, M. ; Wilking, M. J. ; Winslow, L. ; Wittich, P. ; Wonsak, B. ; Worcester, E. ; Wurm, M. ; Yang, G. ; Yeh, M. ; Zimmerman, E. D. ; Zsoldos, S. ; Zuber, K.

2020
Springer Heidelberg

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Abstract: New developments in liquid scintillators, high-efficiency, fast photon detectors, and chromatic pho-ton sorting have opened up the possibility for build-ing a large-scale detector that can discriminate betweenCherenkov and scintillation signals. Such a detector couldreconstruct particle direction and species using Cherenkovlight while also having the excellent energy resolutionand low threshold of a scintillator detector. Situateddeep underground, and utilizing new techniques in com-puting and reconstruction, this detector could achieveunprecedented levels of background rejection, enablinga rich physics program spanning topics in nuclear, high-energy, and astrophysics, and across a dynamic rangefrom hundreds of keV to many GeV. The scientific pro-gram would include observations of low- and high-energysolar neutrinos, determination of neutrino mass order-ing and measurement of the neutrino CP-violating phaseδ, observations of diffuse supernova neutrinos and neu-trinos from a supernova burst, sensitive searches fornucleon decay and, ultimately, a search for neutrino-less double beta decay, with sensitivity reaching thenormal ordering regime of neutrino mass phase space.This paper describesTheia, a detector design that in-corporates these new technologies in a practical and af-fordable way to accomplish the science goals describedabove.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Experimentelle Hadrondynamik (IKP-2)

Research Program(s):

1. 612 - Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory (POF3-612) (POF3-612)

Appears in the scientific report 2021

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