Neutrino Physics with an Opaque Detector
Abstract
In 1956 Reines & Cowan discovered the neutrino using a liquid scintillator detector. The neutrinos interacted with the scintillator, producing light that propagated across transparent volumes to surrounding photo-sensors. This approach has remained one of the most widespread and successful neutrino detection technologies used since. This article introduces a concept that breaks with the conventional paradigm of transparency by confining and collecting light near its creation point with an opaque scintillator and a dense array of optical fibres. This technique, called LiquidO, can provide high-resolution imaging to enable efficient identification of individual particles event-by-event. A natural affinity for adding dopants at high concentrations is provided by the use of an opaque medium. With these and other capabilities, the potential of our detector concept to unlock opportunities in neutrino physics is presented here, alongside the results of the first experimental validation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.02859,
title = {Neutrino Physics with an Opaque Detector},
author = {A. Cabrera and A. Abusleme and J. dos Anjos and T. J. C. Bezerra and M. Bongrand and C. Bourgeois and D. Breton and C. Buck and J. Busto and E. Calvo and E. Chauveau and M. Chen and P. Chimenti and F. Dal Corso and G. De Conto and S. Dusini and G. Fiorentini and C. Frigerio Martins and A. Givaudan and P. Govoni and B. Gramlich and M. Grassi and Y. Han and J. Hartnell and C. Hugon and S. Jiménez and H. de Kerret and A. Le Nevé and P. Loaiza and J. Maalmi and F. Mantovani and L. Manzanillas and C. Marquet and J. Martino and D. Navas-Nicolás and H. Nunokawa and M. Obolensky and J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux and G. Ortona and C. Palomares and F. Pessina and A. Pin and J. C. C. Porter and M. S. Pravikoff and M. Roche and B. Roskovec and N. Roy and C. Santos and S. Schoppmann and A. Serafini and L. Simard and M. Sisti and L. Stanco and V. Strati and J. -S. Stutzmann and F. Suekane and A. Verdugo and B. Viaud and C. Volpe and C. Vrignon and S. Wagner and F. Yermia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.02859},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 figures