A D<inf>2</inf>O detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source

Akimov, D

An, P

Awe, C

Barbeau, PS

Becker, B

Belov, V

Bernardi, I

Blackston, MA

Bolozdynya, A

Cabrera-Palmer, B

Chernyak, D

Conley, E

Daughhetee, J

Day, E

Detwiler, J

Ding, K

Durand, MR

Efremenko, Y

Elliott, SR

Fabris, L

Febbraro, M

Gallo Rosso, A

Galindo-Uribarri, A

Green, MP

Heath, MR

Hedges, S

Hoang, D

Hughes, M

Johnson, T

Khromov, A

Konovalov, A

Koros, J

Kozlova, E

Kumpan, A

Li, L

Link, JM

Liu, J

Mann, K

Markoff, DM

Mastroberti, J

Mueller, PE

Newby, J

Parno, DS

Penttila, SI

Pershey, D

Rapp, R

Ray, H

Raybern, J

Razuvaeva, O

Reyna, D

Rich, GC

Ross, J

Rudik, D

Runge, J

Salvat, DJ

Salyapongse, AM

Scholberg, K

Shakirov, A

Simakov, G

Sinev, G

Snow, WM

Sosnovstsev, V

Suh, B

Tayloe, R

Tellez-Giron-Flores, K

Tolstukhin, I

Ujah, E

Vanderwerp, J

Varner, RL

Virtue, CJ

Visser, G

Ward, EM

Wiseman, C

Wongjirad, T

Yen, YR

Yoo, J

Yu, CH

Zettlemoyer, J

2021-11-17T15:41:42Z

2021-11-17T15:41:42Z

2021-08-01

2021-11-17T15:41:42Z

We report on the technical design and expected performance of a 592 kg heavy-water-Cherenkov detector to measure the absolute neutrino flux from the pion-decay-at-rest neutrino source at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The detector will be located roughly 20 m from the SNS target and will measure the neutrino flux with better than 5% statistical uncertainty in 2 years. This heavy-water detector will serve as the first module of a two-module detector system to ultimately measure the neutrino flux to 2-3% at both the First Target Station and the planned Second Target Station of the SNS. This detector will significantly reduce a dominant systematic uncertainty for neutrino cross-section measurements at the SNS, increasing the sensitivity of searches for new physics.

1748-0221

1748-0221

https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23992

IOP Publishing

Journal of Instrumentation

10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/P08048

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Neutrino detectors

A D2O detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source

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Barbeau, PS|0000-0002-8891-8988

Markoff, DM|0000-0002-2313-5763

Scholberg, K|0000-0002-7007-2021

P08048

P08048

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