The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA
Abstract
We propose the liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) as a next-generation neutrino observatory on the scale of 50 kt. The outstanding successes of the Borexino and KamLAND experiments demonstrate the large potential of liquid-scintillator detectors in low-energy neutrino physics. LENA's physics objectives comprise the observation of astrophysical and terrestrial neutrino sources as well as the investigation of neutrino oscillations. In the GeV energy range, the search for proton decay and long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments complement the low-energy program. Based on the considerable expertise present in European and international research groups, the technical design is sufficiently mature to allow for an early start of detector realization.
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@article{arxiv.1104.5620,
title = {The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA},
author = {Michael Wurm and John F. Beacom and Leonid B. Bezrukov and Daniel Bick and Johannes Blümer and Sandhya Choubey and Christian Ciemniak and Davide D'Angelo and Basudeb Dasgupta and Amol Dighe and Grigorij Domogatsky and Steve Dye and Sergey Eliseev and Timo Enqvist and Alexey Erykalov and Franz von Feilitzsch and Gianni Fiorentini and Tobias Fischer and Marianne Göger-Neff and Peter Grabmayr and Caren Hagner and Dominikus Hellgartner and Johannes Hissa and Shunsaku Horiuchi and Hans-Thomas Janka and Claude Jaupart and Josef Jochum and Tuomo Kalliokoski and Pasi Kuusiniemi and Tobias Lachenmaier and Ionel Lazanu and John G. Learned and Timo Lewke and Paolo Lombardi and Sebastian Lorenz and Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev and Livia Ludhova and Kai Loo and Jukka Maalampi and Fabio Mantovani and Michela Marafini and Jelena Maricic and Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia and William F. McDonough and Lino Miramonti and Alessandro Mirizzi and Quirin Meindl and Olga Mena and Randolph Möllenberg and Rolf Nahnhauer and Dmitry Nesterenko and Yuri N. Novikov and Guido Nuijten and Lothar Oberauer and Sandip Pakvasa and Sergio Palomares-Ruiz and Marco Pallavicini and Silvia Pascoli and Thomas Patzak and Juha Peltoniemi and Walter Potzel and Tomi Räihä and Georg G. Raffelt and Gioacchino Ranucci and Soebur Razzaque and Kari Rummukainen and Juho Sarkamo and Valerij Sinev and Christian Spiering and Achim Stahl and Felicitas Thorne and Marc Tippmann and Alessandra Tonazzo and Wladyslaw H. Trzaska and John D. Vergados and Christopher Wiebusch and Jürgen Winter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.5620},
year = {2015}
}
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Whitepaper for the LENA low-energy neutrino detector, 67 pages, 32 figures