Geoneutrino mini-workshop

Friday Mar 3, 2023, 10:00 AM → 5:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

Watanabe Hall

John Learned (University of Hawaii), Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

Advances in anti-neutrino detector technology and applications for geoneutrinos

Articles of Interest

10:00 AM → 10:15 AM Welcome (John Learned, Physics, University of Hawaii Mānoa)

Speaker: John Learned (University of Hawaii)

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Scalability of gadolinium-doped-water Cherenkov detectors for nuclear nonproliferation

Speaker: Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

Dr. Li - Slides

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Study of Ocean Bottom Detector for observation of geo-neutrino from the mantle

Speaker: Prof. Hiroko Watanabe (RCNS, Tohoku University)

OBD_UHW2023Mar03.pdf

11:15 AM → 11:45 AM Synthesis and processing of lithium-loaded plastic scintillators on the kilogram scale

Speaker: Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

11:45 AM → 12:30 PM Discussion

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Understanding the continental lithosphere for interpreting the measured geoneutrino flux

Speaker: Prof. William McDonough (University of Maryland)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Earth’s composition and power defined using geoneutrinos

Speaker: Prof. William McDonough (University of Maryland)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Developments in Ocean bottom antineutrino detection

Speakers: Prof. Hiroko Watanabe (RCNS, Tohoku University), John Learned (University of Hawaii)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Future technologies for antineutrino detection