SNOWMASS Neutrino Frontier NF10 Topical Group Report: Neutrino Detectors

TL;DR

This report reviews future neutrino detectors across a wide energy spectrum, emphasizing new enabling technologies rather than existing or under-construction detectors.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of emerging detector technologies and methodologies for future neutrino physics research from eV to EeV energies.

Findings

Survey of cryogenic and liquid noble detectors

Analysis of photon-based hybrid detectors

Overview of ultra-high energy detection methods

Abstract

We discuss here future neutrino detectors with physics goals ranging from the eV to the EeV scale. The focus is on future enabling technologies for such detectors, rather than existing detectors or those under construction. The report includes methodologies across the broad spectrum of neutrino physics: liquid noble and other cryogenic detectors, includin LAr and LXe TPCs; photon-based detectors including technologies enabling hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors; low-threshold detectors which use a wide variety of technologies to probe physics like coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering or detection of cosmic background neutrinos; and ultra-high energy detectors including optical and radio detectors, as well as tracking detectors for use at the forward physics facility of the LHC