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

1 Welcome (John Learned, Physics, University of Hawaii Mānoa)

Speaker: John Learned (University of Hawaii)

2 Scalability of gadolinium-doped-water Cherenkov detectors for nuclear nonproliferation

Speaker: Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

Dr. Li - Slides

3 Study of Ocean Bottom Detector for observation of geo-neutrino from the mantle

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

OBD_UHW2023Mar03.pdf

4 Synthesis and processing of lithium-loaded plastic scintillators on the kilogram scale

Speaker: Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

5 Discussion

12:30 PM Lunch

6 Understanding the continental lithosphere for interpreting the measured geoneutrino flux

Speaker: Prof. William McDonough (University of Maryland)

7 Earth’s composition and power defined using geoneutrinos

Speaker: Prof. William McDonough (University of Maryland)

8 Developments in Ocean bottom antineutrino detection

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

9 Future technologies for antineutrino detection