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Snowmass 2021 White Paper: The Selena Neutrino Experiment

Instrumentation and Detectors 2022-03-17 v1

Abstract

Imaging devices made from an ionization target layer of amorphous selenium (aSe) coupled to a silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) active pixel array for charge readout are a promising technology for neutrino physics. The high spatial resolution in a solid-state target provides unparalleled rejection of backgrounds from natural radioactivity in the search for neutrinoless ββ\beta\beta decay and for electron neutrino (νe\nu_e) spectroscopy with 82^{82}Se. In this white paper, we summarize the broad scientific program of a large imaging detector with a 10-ton target of 82^{82}Se. We review the detector technology, and outline the ongoing research program to realize this experiment.

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@article{arxiv.2203.08779,
  title  = {Snowmass 2021 White Paper: The Selena Neutrino Experiment},
  author = {A. E. Chavarria and C. Galbiati and B. Hernandez-Molinero and Al. Ianni and X. Li and Y. Mei and D. Montanino and X. Ni and C. Peña Garay and A. Piers and H. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08779},
  year   = {2022}
}

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