Feasibility of a Next Generation Underground Water Cherenkov Detector: UNO

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The feasibility of a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector is examined and a conceptual design (UNO) is presented. The design has a linear detector configuration with a total volume of 650 kton which is 13 times the total volume of the Super-Kamiokande detector. It corresponds to a 20 times increase in fiducial volume for physics analyses. The physics goals of UNO are to increase...

Underground Neutrino Detectors for Particle and Astroparticle Science: the Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging ExpeRiment (GLACIER)

The current focus of the CERN program is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), however, CERN is engaged in long baseline neutrino physics with the CNGS project and supports T2K as recognized CERN RE13, and for good reasons: a number of observed phenomena in high-energy physics and cosmology lack their resolution within the Standard Model of particle physics; these puzzles include the origin of neutr...

Expression of Interest and R&D Proposal for the Study of Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Physics Using a Large Underground Water Cherenkov Detector

A Study of the Water Cherenkov Calorimeter

The novel idea of water Cherenkov calorimeter made of water tanks as the next generation neutrino detector for ν factories and ν beams is investigated. A water tank prototype with a dimension of 1×1×13m is constructed, its performance is studied and compared with a GEANT4 based Monte Carlo simulation. By using measured parameters of the water tank, including the light collection efficiency, att...

Callibration of a homemade 4-fold Water Cherenkov Detector array, by detection of EAS events