SuperNEMO Commissioning and Sensitivity Demonstration
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
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Planned Impact
Although our objectives are largely scientific in nature, our
work will have wider impact, including:
- industry. The SuperNEMO project members maintain close
links with a number of companies including but not limited to
Hamamatsu (Photomultiplier manufacturer, Japan), ETL
(Photomultiplier manufacturer, UK), ELJEN (scintillator
manufacturer, US) and ENVINET (scintillator manufacturer, Czech
Republic). We will maintain these links, continuing to test
new products and provide feedback to manufacturers where
appropriate.
- security applications. Members of the UK SuperNEMO collaboration
have used their experience to propose and develop two prototype
detectors that use cosmic rays to passively monitor volumes for
the presence of suspicious materials. We will continue to work
on potential applications of technologies related to the
SuperNEMO project.
- society at large. We plan a media campaign to coincide with
the start of SuperNEMO operations. SuperNEMO provides
visually striking images of double-beta decay due to the
full event reconstruction that it performs. We are also filming
various construction activities, anticipating their
use in future public presentations. We believe that raising
the media profile of SuperNEMO will complement other particle
physics news stories in the media and help to maintain the
interest of the public and in particular school students who
may be thinking of studying physics at university.
See "Pathways to Impact" for further information.
work will have wider impact, including:
- industry. The SuperNEMO project members maintain close
links with a number of companies including but not limited to
Hamamatsu (Photomultiplier manufacturer, Japan), ETL
(Photomultiplier manufacturer, UK), ELJEN (scintillator
manufacturer, US) and ENVINET (scintillator manufacturer, Czech
Republic). We will maintain these links, continuing to test
new products and provide feedback to manufacturers where
appropriate.
- security applications. Members of the UK SuperNEMO collaboration
have used their experience to propose and develop two prototype
detectors that use cosmic rays to passively monitor volumes for
the presence of suspicious materials. We will continue to work
on potential applications of technologies related to the
SuperNEMO project.
- society at large. We plan a media campaign to coincide with
the start of SuperNEMO operations. SuperNEMO provides
visually striking images of double-beta decay due to the
full event reconstruction that it performs. We are also filming
various construction activities, anticipating their
use in future public presentations. We believe that raising
the media profile of SuperNEMO will complement other particle
physics news stories in the media and help to maintain the
interest of the public and in particular school students who
may be thinking of studying physics at university.
See "Pathways to Impact" for further information.
Organisations
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| Stefan Soldner-Rembold (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Abazov V
(2019)
Properties of Z c ± ( 3900 ) produced in p p ¯ collisions
in Physical Review D
Adams C
(2019)
Rejecting cosmic background for exclusive charged current quasi elastic neutrino interaction studies with Liquid Argon TPCs; a case study with the MicroBooNE detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Adams C
(2019)
Comparison of $${\varvec{\nu }}_{\varvec{\mu }}-$$Ar multiplicity distributions observed by MicroBooNE to GENIE model predictions MicroBooNE Collaboration
in The European Physical Journal C
Adams C
(2020)
Reconstruction and measurement of (100) MeV energy electromagnetic activity from p 0 arrow ?? decays in the MicroBooNE LArTPC
in Journal of Instrumentation
Arnold R
(2016)
Measurement of the 2 ? ß ß decay half-life of Nd 150 and a search for 0 ? ß ß decay processes with the full exposure from the NEMO-3 detector
in Physical Review D
Arnold R
(2017)
Measurement of the 2 ? ß ß decay half-life and search for the 0 ? ß ß decay of Cd 116 with the NEMO-3 detector
in Physical Review D
Arnold R
(2018)
Final results on $${}^\mathbf{82 }{\hbox {Se}}$$ double beta decay to the ground state of $${}^\mathbf{82 }{\hbox {Kr}}$$ from the NEMO-3 experiment
in The European Physical Journal C
Garcia-Gamez D
(2019)
A novel electrical method to measure wire tensions for time projection chambers
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment