Speaker
Description
Liquid argon is being employed as a detector medium in neutrino physics and dark matter searches. A recent push to expand the applications of scintillation light in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber neutrino detectors has necessitated the development of new methods of simulating this light. The presently available methods tend to be prohibitively slow or imprecise due to the combination of detector size and the amount of energy deposited by neutrino beam interactions. In this talk we present a semi-analytical model to predict the quantity of argon scintillation light observed by a light detector based only on the relative positions between the scintillation and light detector. Our proposed method can be used to simulate light propagation in large-scale liquid argon detectors such as DUNE or SBND. This talk is based on Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 349 (2021), and will expand on the methods presented there applying them to other detector mediums such as liquid xenon or xenon-doped liquid argon.
