November 21, 2024
Adam Baldoni '19 will present "A Novel Target Material for Optical Neutrino Detectors". Pizza provided and everyone welcome to attend.
Since the late 1960s, optical detectors have been a common method for detecting neutrino interactions. Two common target materials for these detectors are pure water and liquid scintillator, each having advantages and disadvantages. A new material, water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS), has been developed over the last decade at Brookhaven National Laboratory and combines the advantages of its constituents while minimizing their disadvantages. Small-scale, tabletop experiments have been done with WbLS, but ton-scale tests need to be performed before scaling up to a kiloton-scale WbLS detector. This talk will give an overview of three ton-scale WbLS detectors currently in operation, detailing their design and the physics underlying how these detectors work.
Further information
- Location: Tome 115
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Cost: $0.00