Design and development of optical modules for the BUTTON-30 detector
Instrumentation and Detectors
2026-01-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
BUTTON-30 is a neutrino detector demonstrator located in the STFC Boulby underground facility in the north-east of England. The main goal of the project is to deploy and test the performance of the gadolinium-loaded water-based liquid scintillator for neutrino detection in an underground environment. This will pave the way for a future large-volume neutrino observatory that can also perform remote monitoring of nuclear reactors for nonproliferation. This paper describes the design and construction of the watertight optical modules of the experiment.
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@article{arxiv.2511.03417,
title = {Design and development of optical modules for the BUTTON-30 detector},
author = {D. S. Bhattacharya and J. Bae and M. Bergevin and J. Boissevain and S. Boyd and K. Bridges and L. Capponi and J. Coleman and D. Costanzo and T. Cunniffe and S. A. Dazeley and M. V. Diwan and S. R. Durham and E. Ellingwood and A. Enqvist and T. Gamble and S. Gokhale and J. Gooding and C. Graham and E. Gunger and W. Hopkins and I. Jovanovic and T. Kaptanoglu and E. Kneale and L. Lebanowski and K. Lester and V. A. Li and M. Malek and C. Mauger and N. McCauley and C. Metelko and R. Mills and A. Morgan and F. Muheim and A. Murphy and M. Needham and K. Ogren and G. D. Orebi Gann and K. Y. Oyulmaz and S. M. Paling and A. F. Papatyi and G. Pinkney and J. Puputti and S. Quillin and B. Richards and R. Rosero and A. Scarff and Y. Schnellbach and P. R. Scovell and B. Seitz and L. Sexton and O. Shea and G. D. Smith and R. Svoboda and D. Swinnock and A. Tarrant and F. Thomson and J. N. Tinsley and C. Toth and A. Usón and M. Vagins and J. Webster and S. Woodford and G. Yang and M. Yeh and E. Zhemchugov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.03417},
year = {2026}
}
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Published in The European Physical Journal Plus. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-07266-0