Conveners
Neutrino detection & technology: Session 1
- Yan-Jie Schnellbach (RWTH Aachen University)
Neutrino detection & technology: Session 2
- Viacheslav Li (LLNL)
Neutrino detection & technology: Session 3
- Nathaniel Bowden (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
A new reactor neutrinos detector using a plastic scintillator is developed. This detector is compact and intended to measure $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ from nuclear reactors by ground-based installation. The compact one-ton class detector for inverse beta decay (IBD) must be installed close to the $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ source. For this purpose, the detector is being developed near the core of a research...
In this talk, simulation-based design and optimization studies of a gadolinium-loaded segmented plastic scintillator detector are presented for monitoring applications of nuclear reactors in Turkey using antineutrinos. Synthesize and characterization results of gadolinium-loaded plastic scintillators samples are discussed.
Large-scale 6Li-doped pulse shape sensitive plastic scintillator is one of several technologies under development within the Mobile Antineutrino Demonstrator project. Liquid scintillator with similar capabilities was one of key aspects of the aboveground reactor antineutrino detection demonstration by the PROSPECT experiment. However, a plastic material is considered a requirement for truly...
Scintillator detectors have been used for antineutrino detection since the 1950s when Cowan and Reines used them to discover the neutrino. Modern experiments still use scintillators to study neutrino physics. Scintillators convert the energy released in a neutrino interaction into light, which photosensors can detect. Traditional scintillator detectors are transparent, allowing light to reach...
The novel methodology outlined in the just-released “Probing Earth's Missing Potassium using the Unique Antimatter Signature of Geoneutrinos” ([arXiv:2308.04154][1]) shows a novel possible way to address one of the most extreme measurements neutrinos may be able to accomplish: the observation of 40K geoneutrinos — so far proved impossible. The most challenging condition of this measurement is...
The detection of electron antineutrinos can provide the means for confirming the presence and monitoring of the operational characteristics of nuclear reactors. Water-based Cherenkov detectors with gadolinium doping are one of the technologies under study for this application. The energy scale of the emitted positron and the de-excitation cascade from neutron capture by gadolinium motivates...
The detection of neutrinos requires large volume detector systems, often based on scintillation materials or the Cherenkov effect. Large area visible light photon counters are a major cost factor for these modern experiments. Wave-length shifting plates coupled to SiPM are studied as a viable alternative for large area photon sensing. The properties of a developed prototype, its efficiency,...
