Design and development of optical modules for the BUTTON-30 detector
D. S. Bhattacharya, J. Bae, M. Bergevin, J. Boissevain, S. Boyd, K. Bridges, L. Capponi, J. Coleman, D. Costanzo, T. Cunniffe, S. A. Dazeley, M. V. Diwan, S. R. Durham, E. Ellingwood, A. Enqvist, T. Gamble, S. Gokhale, J. Gooding, C. Graham, E. Gunger, W. Hopkins, I. Jovanovic
TL;DR
This paper details the design and construction of optical modules for the BUTTON-30 neutrino detector, aiming to test gadolinium-loaded scintillator technology for future large-scale neutrino observatories and reactor monitoring.
Contribution
It introduces the design and development of watertight optical modules specifically for the BUTTON-30 detector, facilitating neutrino detection in underground environments.
Findings
Successful deployment of optical modules in underground setting
Validation of gadolinium-loaded scintillator performance
Foundation for future large-volume neutrino detectors
Abstract
BUTTON-30 is a neutrino detector demonstrator located in the STFC Boulby underground facility in the north-east of England. The main goal of the project is to deploy and test the performance of the gadolinium-loaded water-based liquid scintillator for neutrino detection in an underground environment. This will pave the way for a future large-volume neutrino observatory that can also perform remote monitoring of nuclear reactors for nonproliferation. This paper describes the design and construction of the watertight optical modules of the experiment.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsNeutrino Physics Research · Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies · Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena