下一代液体闪烁体中微子观测站 LENA
天体物理仪器与方法
2015-05-28 v3 高能物理 - 实验
仪器与探测器
摘要
我们提议建造一个 50 千吨规模的液体闪烁体探测器 LENA（低能中微子天文学），作为下一代中微子观测站。Borexino 和 KamLAND 实验的卓越成就展示了液体闪烁体探测器在低能中微子物理中的巨大潜力。LENA 的物理目标包括观测天体物理和地球中微子源，以及研究中微子振荡。在 GeV 能量范围内，对质子衰变的搜索和长基线中微子振荡实验补充了低能项目。基于欧洲和国际研究团队现有的丰富经验，其技术设计已足够成熟，可尽早启动探测器建设。
引用
@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}
}
备注
Whitepaper for the LENA low-energy neutrino detector, 67 pages, 32 figures