Speaker
Description
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a proposed next-generation, cubic-kilometer-scale ocean neutrino telescope for studying high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. Neutrinos are detected indirectly through the Cherenkov radiation produced when charged particles, created in neutrino interactions, travel through the water faster than the local speed of light. Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are the main optical sensors used to detect this radiation. Their timing, gain, dark rate, and single-photoelectron response must therefore be well characterized before deployment. The P-ONE Demonstrator (P-ONE-D) is a first-stage detector that will validate key technologies and deployment strategies for the full P-ONE array. P-ONE-D will require the characterization of a large number of PMTs before deployment. In this talk, I will share characterization measurements of a single PMT and outline our plan for the near-future multi-PMT setup.
| 18bao3@queensu.ca | |
| Affiliation | Queen's University |
| Research Theme | Neutrinos |