CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

The Myriad Wonders and Challenges of Gd-Loading in WC Detectors

29 May 2018, 15:20

20m

South Foyer | Nopales Room (Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center)

Parallel NMNM Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing

Speaker

Prof. Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU/UC Irvine)

Description

The benefits and difficulties of enriching water Cherenkov detectors with water-soluble gadolinium compounds — thereby enabling the detection of thermal neutrons and dramatically improving these devices' performance as detectors of supernova and reactor antineutrinos — will be discussed.

Presentation materials

Slides

276-0-Gad_CIPANP18.pdf