Speaker
Masooma Sarfraz
(University of Delaware)
Description
NuDot is a ton-scale liquid scintillator Research & Development (R&D) testbed focused on reducing the solar neutrino background in future neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) experiments. With the help of fast timing and low transit-time-spread photomultiplier tubes NuDot will demonstrate its ability to separate the prompt, directional Cherenkov light from the much larger scintillation signal at MeV-scale. High-speed electronics and waveform-level analysis, including machine-learning methods, are being developed to identify individual photon pulses. NuDot is currently under construction at the University of Delaware, with analysis tools actively being developed. This poster aims to introduce NuDot, its status and future data taking plans.
Author
Masooma Sarfraz
(University of Delaware)