Enabling MeV-Scale Discovery By Improving Liquid Argon TPC Performance

by Joseph Zennamo (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Friday 22 Jan 2021, 12:30 → 14:00 Europe/London

https://zoom.us/j/304578256

A major challenge in searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay is designing a detector with a large mass, low backgrounds, and percent-level energy resolution. A large-scale, high-precision LArTPC experiment, such as DUNE, could provide an exciting new opportunity for a sensitive neutrinoless double-beta decay search. By adding xenon as a dopant, a modified DUNE far detector module could enable a 100 ton-scale search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, whereas next-generation experiments are targeting ton-scale searches. I will discuss how we can enable percent-level energy resolution in large LArTPCs and the capabilities of a suitably modified DUNE detector to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. 

Connections will begin at 12:30 with the seminar beginning at 13:00.

Manchester_DopedLArTPCs_Version2_Jan2021.pdf