Could LiquidO help measuring one day the critical and most challenging still unobserved 40K geoneutrinos contribution of the Earth, including a few mysteries around it?
The answer below in our just released preprint!
📌 "Probing Earth's Missing Potassium using the Unique Antimatter Signature of Geoneutrinos"
👤 LiquidO Consortium et al.
🔗 https://t.co/QBAUSWWlES
#neutrino#physicsgeoph
Sunday afternoon session at #Moriond thread: Diana introduces @LiquidODetector. Beautiful localisation of interactions in opaque scintillator: both predicted and experimentally tested with a 10l prototype
CNRS/IN2P3 interview article focuses on SuperChooz in light of the start of its “Pathfinder” exploration phase upon the signature of the dedicated agreement between CNRS and EDF national directions.
https://t.co/GLV0CW6AjS
Today’s developments in #LiquidO remain focused on the imminent (≤2025) several-tons scale #detector (UND) while the @novaexperiment, with similar technology, provides a formidable and encouraging precedent for the plausible feasibility of the @SuperChooz's SFD well on time.
The high scientific interest in #LiquidO’s potential has long been pacing our R&D, which is now further challenged to support a ~10kton scale #neutrino#detector for @SuperChooz (https://t.co/qe5S2kr4ut) in the horizon of 2030.
#Événement 🗓| Le 7 sept. l’IN2P3 et @EDFofficiel ont signé l'accord exploratoire ✍️ pour tester la faisabilité d’un grand projet d’étude des #neutrinos installé sur le site de la #centrale@EDFChooz et doté d’une technologie de détection radicalement nouvelle : @LiquidODetector.
@AnataelCabrera et al. introduce an opaque scintillator detector concept for future neutrino experiments with increased capacity for particle identification and a natural affinity for doping. @jeffhartnell @MPravikoff @tjcbezerra@LiquidODetector https://t.co/4M3KruJ41B
Excited to be part of the R&D for this new technology and proud to be co-editor of this paper. Opaque scintillators are a whole new (counter-intuitive!) way of thinking about particle detection. The future is cloudy but that's the whole point...
It started ~10 years ago with a crazy “too good to be true” idea breaking with dominant “transparency” paradigm in fundamental particle detection so far. It turned out to be right, as proved in this Nature and LiquidO remains an amazing framework with possible discoveries ahead!
We are delighted to announce that our first paper has been published. Pioneered by a consortium composed of specialised scientists in 23 institutions over 9 countries, the new “LiquidO” concept and proof-of-principle was published in @Nature's @CommsPhys: https://t.co/pIjYo12Ptj
LiquidO's capabilities afford it a wide range of applications in many areas of high-energy, nuclear, medical, and accelerator physics, many of which are under active exploration.