14-17 September 2021
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Scintillation-based background rejection methods in large scale LArTPCs

15 Sep 2021, 09:00
1h
Poster Signal reconstruction and identification (analysis methods, simulations) Poster in Gather.Town

Speaker

Anyssa Navrer-Agasson (The University of Manchester)

Description

Large scale single-phase liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) such as DUNE can achieve MeV-scale thresholds, making them sensitive to solar and supernova neutrinos. In this energy region, low energy activity from radiological sources can be a dominant background. LArTPCs can make use of the scintillation light to discriminate against radiological backgrounds. This talk will present rejection methods exploiting the scintillation light in LArTPCs. We studied a range of detector configurations and rejection approaches based on the properties of the light (pulse shape discrimination) and/or on the detector design.

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