Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
Instrumentation and Detectors
2022-03-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We find that it is possible to increase sensitivity to low energy physics in a third or fourth DUNE-like module with careful controls over radiopurity and some modifications to a detector similar to the DUNE Far Detector design. In particular, sensitivity to supernova and solar neutrinos can be enhanced with improved MeV-scale reach. A neutrinoless double beta decay search with Xe loading appears feasible. Furthermore, sensitivity to Weakly-Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) Dark Matter (DM) becomes competitive with the planned world program in such a detector, offering a unique seasonal variation detection that is characteristic for the nature of WIMPs.
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@article{arxiv.2203.08821,
title = {Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers},
author = {A. Avasthi and T. Bezerra and A. Borkum and E. Church and J. Genovesi and J. Haiston and C. M. Jackson and I. Lazanu and B. Monreal and S. Munson and C. Ortiz and M. Parvu and S. J. M. Peeters and D. Pershey and S. S. Poudel and J. Reichenbacher and R. Saldanha and K. Scholberg and G. Sinev and J. Zennamo and H. O. Back and J. F. Beacom and F. Capozzi and C. Cuesta and Z. Djurcic and A. C. Ezeribe and I. Gil-Botella and S. W. Li and M. Mooney and M. Sore and S. Westerdale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08821},
year = {2022}
}
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contribution to Snowmass 2021