26–30 Jul 2021
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The ESS Neutrino Super-Beam Near Detector

26 Jul 2021, 14:30
15m
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Parallel session talk Detector R&D and Data Handling T12: Detector R&D and Data Handling

Speaker

Dr Alexander Burgman (Lund University)

Description

The ESS Neutrino Super-Beam (ESSnuSB) is a proposed long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, performed with a high-intensity neutrino beam, to be developed as an extension to the European Spallation Source proton linac currently under construction in Lund, Sweden. The neutrinos would be detected with the near and far detectors of the experiment, the former within several hundred meters of the neutrino production point and the latter within several hundred kilometers. The far detector will consist of a megaton-scale water-Cherenkov detector, and the near detector will consist of a kiloton-scale water-Cherenkov detector in combination with a fine-grained tracking detector and an emulsion detector. The purpose of the near detector is to constrain the flux of the neutrino beam as well as extract the electron-neutrino interaction cross-section in water, thus requiring well performing energy reconstruction and particle flavor identification techniques. These measurements are crucial for the neutrino oscillation study that will be conducted using the far detector.

Year 2021 sees the finalization of the conceptual design of the near detector through a study of the performance of a number of different design options, and a characterization of the neutrino reconstruction and flavor identification performances. In this talk we report on these studies.

First author Alexander Burgman
Email alexander.burgman@physics.uu.se
Collaboration / Activity ESSnuSB

Primary author

Dr Alexander Burgman (Lund University)

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