2 papers
hep-ex2026
Water Cherenkov Detectors in Precision Agriculture: A Novel Approach for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Monitoring
Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Jaime Betancour, Alejandro Núñez Selin +4
Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs), traditionally employed in cosmic-ray detection, are repurposed here for precision soil moisture monitoring using cosmic-ray neutron sensing. This…
physics.ins-det2025
Enhanced water Cherenkov detector for soil moisture detection
J. Betancourt, C. Sarmiento-Cano, I. Sidelnik +4
This work evaluates the ability of a water Cherenkov detector to measure thermal neutrons and explores its application to soil-moisture monitoring. We study a NaCl-doped detector a…