The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation experimental program designed to study the behaviour of neutrino oscillation. DUNE will utilize a neutrino beam originating at Fermilab, near Chicago, and will leverage a detector at Fermilab (Near Detector) and a detector 1300 km away in South Dakota (Far Detector), south of Saskatchewan.
In the first phase of DUNE, its...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to measure the leptonic CP phase and the neutrino mass ordering. To characterize the neutrino flux and constrain interaction models and systematic uncertainties, a suite of near detectors will be installed near the proton beam target. To address the high event pile-up over 50...
The SNO+ experiment is a rare-event search experiment located at SNOLAB with its main goal being the search for neutrinoless double beta decay. This specialized search is highly sensitive, and therefore requires a very stringent radioactive background budget. Going deep underground provides 2km of overhead rock burden allows for very effective shielding from highly energetic cosmic rays that...
Plastic scintillators are a common type of particle detector that is often used for their fast timing, robustness and cheap cost. Plastic scintillators are commonly used in veto systems since they can be made to large sizes needed for the experiment as well having a variety of dopants added to them to improve the detection of specific particles. As with any scintillator it is important to...
RICOCHET is a coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) experiment situated 8.8 m from the core of the 58 MW research reactor at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. Using arrays of individually instrumented cryogenic bolometers, the experiment aims to measure the sub-keV$_{nr}$ cross section of CE$\nu$NS with low-energy recoils from reactor antineutrinos....
Super-Kamiokande (SK) is 50kT water Cherenkov neutrino detector composed of approximately 11,000 20” Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs). Magnetic fields affect photoelectron trajectories through the bulb of large-sized PMTs and consequently can result in changes in the PMT gain and detection efficiency. For SK, it is becoming increasingly important to understand both the impact of residual magnetic...
