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Enhanced low-energy supernova burst detection in large liquid argon time projection chambers enabled by Q-Pix

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2022-08-16 v3 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The detection of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae may reveal important process features as well as neutrino properties. The detection of supernova neutrinos is one of the main science drivers for future kiloton-scale neutrino detectors based on liquid argon. Here we show that for such detectors the intrinsically 3D readout in Q-Pix offers numerous advantages relative to a wire-based readout, such as higher reconstruction efficiency, lower energy threshold, considerably lower data rates, and potential pointing information.

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@article{arxiv.2203.12109,
  title  = {Enhanced low-energy supernova burst detection in large liquid argon time projection chambers enabled by Q-Pix},
  author = {S. Kubota and J. Ho and A. D. McDonald and N. Tata and J. Asaadi and R. Guenette and J. B. R. Battat and D. Braga and M. Demarteau and Z. Djurcic and M. Febbraro and E. Gramellini and S. Kohani and C. Mauger and Y. Mei and F. M. Newcomer and K. Nishimura and D. Nygren and R. Van Berg and G. S. Varner and K. Woodworth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12109},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables; accepted by Physical Review D