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Accelerating Optical Photon Simulation in DUNE with Opticks
Ilker Parmaksiz, Aaron Higuera, Laura Paulucci +2
Optical photon simulation is among the most computationally demanding tasks in complex and large detector geometries. In the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), the scale…
Reconstructing High-Fidelity Light Yield Maps for Surface LArTPCs Using Crossing Cosmic Muons
Alex Heindel, Wei Shi, Angelo Ralaikoto +5
Photon detection systems in liquid argon time projection chambers provide prompt scintillation light information that can improve triggering, timing, calorimetry, and interaction r…
Scintillation Light in SBND: Simulation, Reconstruction, and Expected Performance of the Photon Detection System
SBND Collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri +180
SBND is the near detector of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its location near to the Booster Neutrino Beam source and relatively large mass will allow the study o…
Search for reactor-produced millicharged particles with Skipper-CCDs at the CONNIE and Atucha-II experiments
Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Nicolas Avalos, Pablo Bellino +37
Millicharged particles, proposed by various extensions of the standard model, can be created in pairs by high-energy photons within nuclear reactors and can interact electromagneti…
Searches for CEνNS and Physics beyond the Standard Model using Skipper-CCDs at CONNIE
Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Nicolas Avalos, Xavier Bertou +31
The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) aims to detect the coherent scattering (CENS) of reactor antineutrinos off silicon nuclei using thick fully-deplete…
Low-Energy Physics in Neutrino LArTPCs
D. Caratelli, W. Foreman, A. Friedland +285
In this white paper, we outline some of the scientific opportunities and challenges related to detection and reconstruction of low-energy (less than 100 MeV) signatures in liquid a…
LArQL: A phenomenological model for treating light and charge generation in liquid argon
F. Marinho, L. Paulucci, D. Totani +1
Experimental data shows that both ionization charge and scintillation light in LAr depend on the deposited energy density () and electric field (). Moreover, fr…
The DUNE Vertical Drift Photon Detection System
Laura Paulucci
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to mainly investigate oscillation parameters, supernova physics and proton decay. It…
Liquid argon characterization of the X-ARAPUCA with alpha particles, gamma rays and cosmic muons
H. V. Souza, E. Segreto, A. A. Machado +9
The X-ARAPUCA device is the baseline choice for the photon detection system of the first far detector module of the DUNE experiment. We present the results of the first complete ch…
A measurement of absolute efficiency of the ARAPUCA photon detector in Liquid Argon
Dante Totani, Gustavo Cancelo, Flavio Cavanna +8
In the Fall of 2017, two photon detector designs for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Far Detector were installed and tested in the TallBo liquid argon (LAr) cryosta…
Construction of precision wire readout planes for the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND)
R. Acciarri, C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos +192
The Short-Baseline Near Detector time projection chamber is unique in the design of its charge readout planes. These anode plane assemblies (APAs) have been fabricated and assemble…
A complete simulation of the X-ARAPUCA device for detection of scintillation photons
Laura Paulucci, Franciole Marinho, Ana Amélia Machado +1
The concept of the ARAPUCA device is relatively new and involves increasing the effective area for photon collection of SiPMs by the use of a box with highly reflective internal wa…
The Liquid Argon In A Testbeam (LArIAT) Experiment
LArIAT Collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. J. Adams +103
The LArIAT liquid argon time projection chamber, placed in a tertiary beam of charged particles at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility, has collected large samples of pions, muons, ele…
Calorimetry for low-energy electrons using charge and light in liquid argon
W. Foreman, R. Acciarri, J. A. Asaadi +60
Precise calorimetric reconstruction of 5-50 MeV electrons in liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) will enable the study of astrophysical neutrinos in DUNE and could enha…
Measuring light with light dependent resistors: an easy approach for optics experiments
F. Marinho, C. M. Carvalho, F. R. Apolinário +1
We entertain the use of light dependent resistors as a viable option as measuring sensors in optics laboratory experiments or classroom demonstrations. The main advantages of these…
Near-Earth Supernova Explosions: Evidence, Implications, and Opportunities
Brian D. Fields, John R. Ellis, Walter R. Binns +36
There is now solid experimental evidence of at least one supernova explosion within 100 pc of Earth within the last few million years, from measurements of the short-lived isotope…
Liquid Argon test of the ARAPUCA device
E. Segreto, A. A. Machado, L. Paulucci +11
The ARAPUCA is a novel concept for liquid argon scintillation light detection which has been proposed for the photon detection system of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. T…
Numerical characterization of the ARAPUCA: a new approach for LAr scintillation light detection
F. Marinho, L. Paulucci, A. A. Machado +1
The ARAPUCA concept has been proposed as a simple and neat solution for increasing the effective collection area of SiPMs through the shifting and trapping of scintillation light i…
The X-ARAPUCA: An improvement of the ARAPUCA device
A. A. Machado, E. Segreto, D. Warner +6
The ARAPUCA is a novel technology for the detection of liquid argon scintillation light, which has been proposed for the far detector of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. T…
Muon Radiation Dose and Marine Megafaunal Extinction at the end-Pliocene Supernova
Adrian L. Melott, Franciole Marinho, Laura Paulucci
Considerable data and analysis support the detection of one or more supernovae at a distance of about 50 pc, ~2.6 million years ago. This is possibly related to the extinction even…
Propagation and energy deposition of cosmic rays' muons on terrestrial environments
Franciole Marinho, Laura Paulucci, Douglas Galante
Earth is constantly struck by radiation coming from the interstellar medium. The very low energy end of the spectrum is shielded by the geomagnetic field but charged particles with…