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physics.ins-det2025

Measurement of Light Yield Response of Gd-compatible Water-based Liquid Scintillator with the Brookhaven 1-ton testbed

S. Gwon, M. Askins, D. M. Asner +19

The Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) enables hybrid detection by combining scintillation and Cherenkov signals, providing superior event reconstruction capabilities compared…

physics.ins-det2024

Design, construction, and operation of a 1-ton Water-based Liquid scintillator detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory

X. Xiang, G. Yang, S. Andrade +20

Water-based liquid scintillators (WbLS) are attractive neutrino detector materials because they allow us to tune the ratio of the Cherenkov and scintillation signals. Using WbLS la…

physics.ins-det2022★ 21 cited

EOS: a demonstrator of hybrid optical detector technology

T. Anderson, E. Anderssen, M. Askins +61

EOS is a technology demonstrator, designed to explore the capabilities of hybrid event detection technology, leveraging both Cherenkov and scintillation light simultaneously. With…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

A Call to Arms Control: Synergies between Nonproliferation Applications of Neutrino Detectors and Large-Scale Fundamental Neutrino Physics Experiments

T. Akindele, T. Anderson, E. Anderssen +162

The High Energy Physics community can benefit from a natural synergy in research activities into next-generation large-scale water and scintillator neutrino detectors, now being st…

physics.ins-det2021★ 8 cited

Optical calibration of the SNO+ detector in the water phase with deployed sources

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +120

SNO+ is a large-scale liquid scintillator experiment with the primary goal of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, and is located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB,…

physics.ins-det2021★ 129 cited

The SNO+ Experiment

SNO+ Collaboration, :, V. Albanese +251

The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta () decay will be conducted using 780 tonnes…

physics.ins-det2020★ 41 cited

Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +223

A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is…

physics.ins-det2020★ 36 cited

MeV-scale performance of water-based and pure liquid scintillator detectors

B. J. Land, Z. Bagdasarian, J. Caravaca +3

This paper presents studies of the performance of water-based liquid scintillator in both 1-kt and 50-kt detectors. Performance is evaluated in comparison to both pure water Cheren…

physics.ins-det2020★ 16 cited

Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase

The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +130

The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV produced by neutron capture on hydr…

physics.ins-det2019★ 139 cited

Theia: An advanced optical neutrino detector

M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros +75

New developments in liquid scintillators, high-efficiency, fast photon detectors, and chromatic photon sorting have opened up the possibility for building a large-scale detector th…