Speaker
Description
Since the successes of the Daya Bay, Double Chooz and RENO 𝜃_13 experiments in the early 2000s,
antineutrino detection technologies have continued to evolve, providing new capabilities such as next
generation scintillating materials, photon detectors and new dual phase TPC techniques. Some of these
technologies are being employed in detectors coming online now. Most recently, above ground detection
of reactor antineutrinos, which relies upon the identification of cosmogenic fast neutrons to reduce the
most prevalent backgrounds, was accomplished using pulse shape sensitive scintillator or innovative new
designs that permit improved topological reconstruction of complex event structures. Speculating on
future developments, we can look forward to capabilities such as improved aboveground sensitivity, and
shallower deployment requirements in general. Further advances will come from order of magnitude
improvements in vertex resolution, higher photon detection efficiencies, more stable and less toxic
materials, and better particle ID. Separately, coherent scattering detection remains an elusive but
potentially attractive solution due to the relatively high interaction cross section. Many of the new
technologies described here will have important implications for applications in the future. In this talk I
will survey technologies and techniques being developed now, and project how they may improve
capabilities for applications in the future.
