Speaker
Description
Theia is a proposed large-scale neutrino detector that would use both Cherenkov and scintillation signals in order to enable a rich program of fundamental physics. The baseline design consists of a tank filled with a novel scintillator and fast, spectrally-sensitive photon detectors in order to leverage both the direction resolution of the Cherenkov signal and the remarkable energy resolution and low detection threshold of a scintillator detector. This talk will present the breadth of the Theia physics program, from low-energy neutrino physics, such as solar, geo, supernova burst, diffuse supernova, and a high-sensitivity search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, as well as measurements of $\delta_{CP}$ and the neutrino mass ordering using high-energy neutrinos from the LBNF neutrino beam if located at SURF. The talk will also present the status of the technology demonstrator program underway to extrapolate the performance of the technologies and enhanced reconstruction techniques to a large-scale detector like Theia.
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