Charting the Path Beyond-Tonne-Scale and More Establishing sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay in the normal neutrino mass ordering is a defining goal for the coming decades. Organic liquid scintillator detectors offer a promising route to the large target masses and low backgrounds required, while enabling a rich additional physics program. Recent advances in detector technology, event reconstruction, and background discrimination motivate exploration of beyond tonne-scale sensitivity. At the same time, such detectors could also address DSNB, solar neutrinos, geo-neutrinos, and CP violation if deployed in a neutrino beam.
This is the Second Town Hall in a series of three town hall meetings, with the goal of converging on a shared path forward. The First Town Hall was held In June at UC Irvine. This second workshop will focus on the technical challenges of a future large-scale detector, ranging from basic scintillator properties and isotope loading via light sensing to electronics and event reconstruction. More information about registration and program will appear here soon.
Working Sessions (and Conveners)
Scintillator: Benjamin Tam (U. Oxford)
Isotope Loading: Valentina Lozza (U. Lisbon) & Szymon Manecki (SNOLab)
Light Detection: Tanner Kaptanoglu (UC Berkeley)
Readout & DAQ: Alberto Garfagnini (U. Padova)
Reconstruction & Analysis: Kai Loo (U Jyväskylä)
Engineering & Integration: Bob Svoboda (UC Davis)
Detector design challenge: Josh Klein (Penn)