%0 Journal Article
%A Askins, M.
%A Bagdasarian, Z.
%A Barros, N.
%A Beier, E. W.
%A Blucher, E.
%A Bonventre, R.
%A Bourret, E.
%A Callaghan, E. J.
%A Caravaca, J.
%A Diwan, M.
%A Dye, S. T.
%A Eisch, J.
%A Elagin, A.
%A Enqvist, T.
%A Fischer, V.
%A Frankiewicz, K.
%A Grant, C.
%A Guffanti, D.
%A Hagner, C.
%A Hallin, A.
%A Jackson, C. M.
%A Jiang, R.
%A Kaptanoglu, T.
%A Klein, J. R.
%A Kolomensky, Yu. G.
%A Kraus, C.
%A Krennrich, F.
%A Kutter, T.
%A Lachenmaier, T.
%A Land, B.
%A Lande, K.
%A Learned, J. G.
%A Lozza, V.
%A Ludhova, L.
%A Malek, M.
%A Manecki, S.
%A Maneira, J.
%A Maricic, J.
%A Martyn, J.
%A Mastbaum, A.
%A Mauger, C.
%A Moretti, F.
%A Napolitano, J.
%A Naranjo, B.
%A Nieslony, M.
%A Oberauer, L.
%A Orebi Gann, G. D.
%A Ouellet, J.
%A Pershing, T.
%A Petcov, S. T.
%A Pickard, L.
%A Rosero, R.
%A Sanchez, M. C.
%A Sawatzki, J.
%A Seo, S. H.
%A Smiley, M.
%A Smy, M.
%A Stahl, A.
%A Steiger, H.
%A Stock, M. R.
%A Sunej, H.
%A Svoboda, R.
%A Tiras, E.
%A Trzaska, W. H.
%A Tzanov, M.
%A Vagins, M.
%A Vilela, C.
%A Wang, Z.
%A Wang, J.
%A Wetstein, M.
%A Wilking, M. J.
%A Winslow, L.
%A Wittich, P.
%A Wonsak, B.
%A Worcester, E.
%A Wurm, M.
%A Yang, G.
%A Yeh, M.
%A Zimmerman, E. D.
%A Zsoldos, S.
%A Zuber, K.
%T Theia: an advanced optical neutrino detector
%J The European physical journal / C
%V 80
%N 5
%@ 1434-6052
%C Heidelberg
%I Springer
%M FZJ-2021-01046
%P 416
%D 2020
%X 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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%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000536300400001
%R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7977-8
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890580