International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN18)

HALO-1kt: A massive helium and lead observatory for supernova neutrinos

Nov 1, 2018, 6:18 PM

3m

Room C215 (UBC Robson Square)

poster Poster session and Reception

Speaker

Dr Matthew Geske (Gonzaga University)

Description

HALO-1kt is a supernova neutrino observatory which would leverage 1000 tonnes of lead from the decommissioned OPERA experiment to create a low cost and low maintenance neutrino detector. It is to be sited at LNGS, and is intended to operate as a scaled up version of the original HALO. Due to its sensitivity to $\nu_e$, it is complementary to water Cherenkov and liquid scintillator-based detectors. Design is currently in progress.