The $\nu$ EYE Neutrino Telescope: Conceptual Design Report

TL;DR

The {$f u EYE$} neutrino telescope aims to explore sterile neutrinos, neutrino oscillation features, and nuclear processes using a novel detector at Yemilab, enabling groundbreaking measurements in neutrino physics.

Contribution

It presents a conceptual design for a neutrino detector at Yemilab to investigate sterile neutrinos, neutrino oscillation minima, and real-time nuclear reactions with unprecedented precision.

Findings

Proposes a new neutrino detection method at Yemilab.

Aims to observe the first neutrino oscillation minimum.

Seeks to detect sterile neutrinos and up-turn in solar neutrinos.

Abstract

The {$\bf\nu EYE$} (``new eye'', Neutrino Experiment at YEmilab, \href{https://sites.google.com/korea.ac.kr/the-nueye-telescope} {\tt nuEYE.korea.ac.kr}) neutrino project leverages the existing large pit at Yemilab located in South Korea, to reveal the existence of sterile neutrino, the up-turn of the neutrinos from the Sun, and the first minimum of the neutrino oscillation over distances on the order of tens of kilometers for the first time. This initiative is expected to facilitate a wide range of significant scientific and technological advancements within both South Korean and international communities engaged in neutrino science and technology. The {$\bf\nu EYE$} aims to investigate the largely unexplored sector of almost-massless lepton in the elementary particle physics in detail. The emphasis will be placed on the study of real time nuclear processes and reactions involving possible sterile neutrinos on timescales down to nanoseconds in ultra-high intense or radioactive neutrino beams for the first time in the world; the {$\bf\nu EYE$} looks at to-be universal oscillation (``up-turn'' in the electron neutrino survival probability) of neutrinos predicted by the three neutrino oscillation paradigm. This will confirm or deny our current understanding on the particle interactions of the lepton sector; and measurement of the first oscillation minimum between the first and second neutrinos in mass.