21–26 Jun 2026
University of California, Irvine
US/Pacific timezone

Characterizing Backgrounds for Neutrino Applications Use Cases with the ROADSTR PSD Scintillator Detector Prototype

Not scheduled
20m
Conference Center (University of California, Irvine)

Conference Center

University of California, Irvine

Poster Applications and Neutrino Impacts on Humanity Poster session

Speaker

Ohana Benevides Rodrigues (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Description

The Reactor Operations Antineutrino Detection Surface Testbed Rover (ROADSTR) prototype detector is a 60-kg reactor-antineutrino detector, comprised of a 2-dimensional array of 36 6Li-doped pulse-shape-sensitive plastic scintillator bars. It collected data recently at multiple locations with diverse environmental characteristics, including the underground P-Tunnel facility at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site, the shallow-overburden MiniBooNE electronics room at Fermi National Laboratory, and on-surface and basement laboratories at Livermore Lawrence National Laboratory. This poster will describe the details of these deployments, the data collected at each facility, and preliminary results, which can be used to benchmark background models for neutrino-based application use cases using the Mobile Antineutrino Demonstrator or other detectors.

This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. LLNL-ABS-2015809

Author

Ohana Benevides Rodrigues (Illinois Institute of Technology)

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