Supernova Neutrinos in the Multi-Messenger Era, SNEWS 2.0

Supernova Neutrinos with nEXO

14 Jun 2019, 18:00

3h

Alumni Hall (Other Institutes)

Poster Poster session and welcome dinner reception

Speaker

Mr Soud Al Kharusi (McGill University)

Description

The nEXO experiment is a proposed neutrino-less double beta decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$) search in the isotope Xe-136 anticipated to be located at SNOLAB. nEXO’s stringent low-background requirements necessitate a water shield in order to reduce contributions from external radiation. Photomultiplier tubes inside the water will also measure Cherenkov light of passing muons; this active shield is referred to as the Outer Detector. We present the status of Monte Carlo simulations and discuss the Outer Detector’s potential as a supernova neutrino observatory with a focus on the inverse beta decay interaction channel on hydrogen in the water.