Speaker
Mr
Vincent Basque
(University of Manchester)
Description
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) will be a 112 ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC), and will form a part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab. The SBN will be composed of three LArTPCs (SBND, MicroBooNE and ICARUS) and aims to resolve the eV-scale sterile neutrino short-baseline anomaly. SBND, as the near detector, will observe an unprecedented number of neutrinos due to its proximity to the beam target. One of the major features of SBND will be its state of the art light detection system. The active system will consist of photomultiplier tubes, as well as ARAPUCA and X-ARAPUCA devices, placed behind the wire planes. The light collection system will be enhanced by highly reflective panels covered by the wavelength shifting compound tetra-phenyl butadiene (TPB) inserted into the cathode plane. The combination of the two elements is designed to ensure a high and uniform light yield in the detector. This talk will provide a review of SBND’s light detection system and its enabling potential to the physics contribution to SBN as well as R&D towards the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
Primary author
Mr
Vincent Basque
(University of Manchester)
