Speaker
Description
Photon detection has proved to be an indispensable tool for neutrino detectors,
which typically detect numbers of photons and their arrival times.
Photons also carry information about an event through their wavelength, polarization, and
direction, but often little to none of this information is utilized.
The "dichroicon," a Winston-style light cone comprised of dichroic filters,
allows detectors to use the wavelength information through the spectral sorting of photons.
This talk will discuss benchtop measurements of the performance of dichroicons,
as well as the deployment of dichroicons in Eos, a 20 ton hybrid Cherenkov-scintillation detector.
Eos is a demonstrator for very large scale neutrino detectors, such as Theia,
and features 12 large dichroicons at the bottom of the detector.
In addition to the current status of the Eos deployment, potential applications
in future detectors like Theia will also be discussed.