TY  - JOUR
AU  - Askins, M.
AU  - Bagdasarian, Z.
AU  - Barros, N.
AU  - Beier, E. W.
AU  - Blucher, E.
AU  - Bonventre, R.
AU  - Bourret, E.
AU  - Callaghan, E. J.
AU  - Caravaca, J.
AU  - Diwan, M.
AU  - Dye, S. T.
AU  - Eisch, J.
AU  - Elagin, A.
AU  - Enqvist, T.
AU  - Fischer, V.
AU  - Frankiewicz, K.
AU  - Grant, C.
AU  - Guffanti, D.
AU  - Hagner, C.
AU  - Hallin, A.
AU  - Jackson, C. M.
AU  - Jiang, R.
AU  - Kaptanoglu, T.
AU  - Klein, J. R.
AU  - Kolomensky, Yu. G.
AU  - Kraus, C.
AU  - Krennrich, F.
AU  - Kutter, T.
AU  - Lachenmaier, T.
AU  - Land, B.
AU  - Lande, K.
AU  - Learned, J. G.
AU  - Lozza, V.
AU  - Ludhova, L.
AU  - Malek, M.
AU  - Manecki, S.
AU  - Maneira, J.
AU  - Maricic, J.
AU  - Martyn, J.
AU  - Mastbaum, A.
AU  - Mauger, C.
AU  - Moretti, F.
AU  - Napolitano, J.
AU  - Naranjo, B.
AU  - Nieslony, M.
AU  - Oberauer, L.
AU  - Orebi Gann, G. D.
AU  - Ouellet, J.
AU  - Pershing, T.
AU  - Petcov, S. T.
AU  - Pickard, L.
AU  - Rosero, R.
AU  - Sanchez, M. C.
AU  - Sawatzki, J.
AU  - Seo, S. H.
AU  - Smiley, M.
AU  - Smy, M.
AU  - Stahl, A.
AU  - Steiger, H.
AU  - Stock, M. R.
AU  - Sunej, H.
AU  - Svoboda, R.
AU  - Tiras, E.
AU  - Trzaska, W. H.
AU  - Tzanov, M.
AU  - Vagins, M.
AU  - Vilela, C.
AU  - Wang, Z.
AU  - Wang, J.
AU  - Wetstein, M.
AU  - Wilking, M. J.
AU  - Winslow, L.
AU  - Wittich, P.
AU  - Wonsak, B.
AU  - Worcester, E.
AU  - Wurm, M.
AU  - Yang, G.
AU  - Yeh, M.
AU  - Zimmerman, E. D.
AU  - Zsoldos, S.
AU  - Zuber, K.
TI  - Theia: an advanced optical neutrino detector
JO  - The European physical journal / C
VL  - 80
IS  - 5
SN  - 1434-6052
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
M1  - FZJ-2021-01046
SP  - 416
PY  - 2020
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000536300400001
DO  - DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7977-8
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890580
ER  -