Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop 2023

Session

Neutrino detection & technology

7

19 Sept 2023, 09:40

The Guildhall York

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)

48. WbLS with pulse-shape discrimination

Tomi Akindele (LLNL)

19/09/2023, 09:40

Talk

49. Materials development in the 30-tonne tank at BNL

Minfang Yeh (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

19/09/2023, 10:00

Talk

50. BUTTON technology testbeds

Jon Coleman

19/09/2023, 10:20

Talk

20. Measurement of reactor neutrinos using plastic scintillator cube

Dr Shoichi Hasegawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

19/09/2023, 11:05

Talk

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...

11. Nuclear reactor monitoring with gadolinium-loaded plastic scintillator modules

Sertac Ozturk (Istinye University)

19/09/2023, 11:25

Talk

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.

39. A 6Li-doped pulse shape sensitive plastic scintillator for ton-scale detector applications

Cristian Roca (LLNL)

19/09/2023, 11:45

Talk

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...

40. Performance of the ROADSTR PSD Plastic Prototype Detector

Caiser Bravo

19/09/2023, 12:05

Talk

The Reactor Operations Antineutrino Detection Surface Testbed Rover (ROADSTR) detector prototype was constructed from Li-6-doped Pulse Shape Discriminating plastic scintillators. Comprising 36 bars of 50cm in length arranged in a 6x6 array, ROADSTR has a mass of about 60kg. Over almost one year of operation, this device has been used to study scintillator characteristics and inverse beta decay...

24. Novel opaque scintillator technology for antineutrino detection

Thiago Bezerra (University of Sussex)

19/09/2023, 13:25

Talk

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...

28. Novel Methodology for Low Energy IBD-like Antineutrinos Detection and Potential

Anatael Cabrera (IJCLab / CNRS / Université Paris-Saclay)

19/09/2023, 13:45

Talk

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...

19. Development of a High-Energy Two-Component Gamma Calibration Source

Igor Jovanovic (University of Michigan)

19/09/2023, 14:00

Talk

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...

51. Forest of Tubes for a directional IBD detector

John Learned (U. Hawaii)

19/09/2023, 14:20

Talk

62. EoS – A Pathfinder Experiment for Low Energy Neutrino Physics with the Hybrid Detector THEIA

Hans Steiger

19/09/2023, 14:35

Talk

Future ktonne-scale, scintillation-based neutrino detectors, such as THEIA, plan to exploit new
and yet to be developed technologies to simultaneously measure Cherenkov and scintillation
signals in order to provide a rich and broad physics program. These hybrid detectors will be
based on fast timing photodetectors, novel target materials, such as water-based liquid
scintillator (WbLS), and...

65. PALEOCCENE

19/09/2023, 14:55

Talk

12. Large Area WLS plate as a visible light photon detector

Dr Frank Thomson (University of Glasgow)

Talk

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,...