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Neutrino Detection with EGADS Facility: Advancements and Findings

Explore the history, technology, and future prospects of neutrino detection through EGADS Facility. Learn about the breakthroughs in neutrino research and the potential impact of gadolinium loading in water Cherenkov detectors. Join us on this fascinating journey into the world of particle physics!

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Neutrino Detection with EGADS Facility: Advancements and Findings

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  1. Introduction and EGADS (A03) Status Mark Vagins Kavli IPMU, UTokyo Multi-Messenger Kakenhi Bi-Monthly Meeting Kashiwa April 15, 2014

  2. Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start): Wolfgang Pauli’s famous 1930 letter in which the neutrino – called the “neutron” until Fermi renamed it in 1934 – was first proposed.

  3. Dear Radioactive Ladies and Gentlemen, …I have hit upon a desperate remedy to save the…law of conservation of energy…there could exist…electrically neutral particles, that I wish to call neutrons, which have spin 1/2 and obey the exclusion principle and which further differ from light quanta in that they do not travel with the velocity of light. I agree that my remedy could seem incredible… But only the one who dare can win… …dear radioactive people, look and judge. Your humble servant W. Pauli

  4. Pauli thought this idea was so crazy he didn’t publish it! Twenty years later, along came the first really serious proposal to detect neutrinos. It was suggested by a 32 year old named Frederick Reines, a protégé of an even younger (well, 63 days younger) Richard Feynman. However, this proposal probably isn’t the experiment you’re thinking of right now.

  5. This sketch is from Fred’s 1st proposal. It was not approved!

  6. It took Fred and his team several more years and a few approved experiments until they finally managed to detect neutrinos. These pictures are from an unsuccessfulexperiment at the Hanford reactor in 1953.

  7. At last, success! The first certain neutrino detection took place in 1956 at the Savannah River nuclear reactor in South Carolina. 39 long years later, Reines would finally be given the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics for this discovery.

  8. 1.8 MeV threshold

  9. Ring-Imaging Water Cherenkov Detector Relativistic charged particles traveling through water make rings of light on the inner wall of the detector. The rings are then imaged by photomultiplier tubes. Dominant neutrino detection technology from1981 to the present day:IMB/Kamiokande/Super-K/SNO/Hyper-K

  10. A core-collapse supernova is a nearly perfect“neutrino bomb”.It releases >98% of its huge energy as neutrinos. In 1987, we saw the evidence firsthand... Kamiokande

  11. Kamiokande IMB Baksan

  12. IMB (in USA) Kamiokande(in Japan) Event Displays of ActualNeutrinos from SN1987A

  13. UTokyo professor Masatoshi Koshiba ultimately received the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics for observing the neutrinosfrom SN1987A with Kamiokande.

  14. Kamiokande = Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment Super-Kamiokande = SuperKamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment Neutrinos – atmospheric, solar, and supernova – were the stars of the show after 1987!

  15. Inverse Beta Decay(~80% of events dominant,but challenging to uniquely identify) Elastic Scattering (~3%  directional) Possibility 1: 10% or less n+p→d + g n g 2.2 MeV g-ray ne p p 2.2 MeV gammas are difficult to detect and, more importantly, difficult to distinguishfrom backgrounds. Gd e+ g Possibility 2: 90% or more n+Gd →~8MeV g DT = ~30 msec

  16. ne can be positively identified by delayed coincidence. Even a single coincident pair + GW  Supernova! [Beacom and Vagins, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93:171101, 2004] Inverse Beta Decay with Gadolinium Possibility 1: 10% or less n+p→d + g n g 2.2 MeV g-ray ne p p Gd e+ g Possibility 2: 90% or more n+Gd →~8MeV g DT = ~30 msec Positron and gamma ray vertices are within ~50 cm

  17. EGADS Super-Kamiokande EGADS Facility Super-K Water system EGADS Hall (2500 m^3) University of Tokyo (ICRR and IPMU), University of California (UCI), and Okayama University have built a dedicated 200-ton Gd demonstrator project: EGADS – Evaluating Gadolinium’s Action on Detector Systems. 12/2009 2/2010 6/2010 12/2010 By the middle of this year EGADS will have shown conclusively whether or not gadolinium loading is safe and effective. If so, this is the likely future of all water Cherenkov detectors.

  18. One Kilometer Underground Main 200-ton Water Tank with 227 50-cm PMT’s + 13 HK tubes(PMT’s installed in summer of 2013) MembraneFlushing System Resin-based Gadolinium Removal System 15-ton Gadolinium Pre-treatment Mixing Tank Selective Water+Gd Filtration System The EGADS Detector Facility @ Kamioka; November 28th, 2012

  19. Gd loading of the 200-ton tank • Feb. 6th, 2013: Inject first 30 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O • Feb. 13th: Inject another 30 kg (60 kg total) • March 6th: Inject 29.4 kg (89.4 kg total) • March 20th/21st: Inject 60 kg (149.4 kg total) • April 1st/2nd: Inject 124.6 kg (274 kg total) April 16th20th: Inject 126 kg (400 kg total) World record: Largest single quantity of gadolinium in solution!

  20. SK-III and SK-IV Ultrapure Water = 74.7% - 82.1% @ 15 m 60 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O 52% n capture on Gd 89.4 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O 62% on Gd 149.4 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O 73% on Gd 274 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O 83% on Gd 400 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O 88% on Gd 30 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O 35% n capture on Gd Light remaining @ 15 meters (characteristic distance in Super-K) gadolinium sulfate’s light absorption is acceptable 

  21. We then drained the tank to prepare for PMT installation. Looking down into the EGADS tank after four months of gadolinium exposure. No rust, no problems!

  22. EGADS PMT installation; August 2013

  23. Working Inside the EGADS Tank; August 2013

  24. Looking Down Into the Completed EGADS Detector; August 2013 Insert: Event Display of a Downward-Going Cosmic Ray Muon

  25. March 26th, 2014: The first scoop ofgadolinium sulfate for the EGADS detector!

  26. Gd loading of the 200-ton detector March 26th, 2014: Inject first 30 kg of Gd2(SO4)3*8H2O April 10th: Inject another 30 kg (60 kg total) Through calibration and transparency studieswe are currently working to understand the effects of adding Gd to the running (24/7) detector. As we did with the empty tank last year, the plan is to add more Gd in stages as these studies are completed and the detector response is understood.

  27. 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Thermal neutron capture cross section (barns) Gd =49700 S =0.53 H =0.33 O =0.0002 Captures on Gd Final Target:400 kg  88% 60 kg  52% 30 kg of Gd2(SO4)3 8H2Oin 200 tons 35% captureon gadolinium Gd in Water 0.0001% 0.001% 0.01% 0.1% 1%

  28. We expect all R&D to be completed during the first half of 2014. But what happens to our major underground facility after that? EGADS EGADS mploying valuating adolinium to adolinium’s utonomously ction on etect etector upernovas ystems This multimessengerkakenhi is supporting the conversion(via upgraded electronics, realtime event reconstruction, etc) of EGADS from an R&D facility into the world’s most advanced water-based supernova neutrino detector.

  29. Special features of SN neutrinos and GW’s • Provide image of core collapse itself (identical t=0) • Only supernova messengers which travel without attenuation to Earth (dust does not affect signal) • Guaranteed full-galaxy coverage • What is required for maximum SN n information? • Full sensitivity to very nearby explosions (close gap in Super-Kamiokande’s galactic SN n coverage) • Deconvolution of neutrino flavors via neutron tags • Ultrafast alert generation to aid other observations

  30. An EGADS timeline: 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 R&D Project Approved Hall E Excavation Build 200-ton Tank Install Water Systems 15-/200-t Pure Water Runs 15-ton Tank Gd Runs 200-ton Tank Pure Water Run w/o PMTs 200-ton Tank Gd Run w/o PMTs 200-ton Tank PMT Installation 200-ton Tank Pure Water Data-taking Run 200-ton Tank Gd Data-taking Run (March 26th) ATM  QBEE Electronics Upgrade Full Galaxy Supernova Sensitivity Fully Automated Instant Supernova Alert Capability

  31. Our target: send out an announcementwithin one secondof the SN neutrino burst’s arrival in EGADS! ~90,000 n events from Betelgeuse ~40 n events from G.C.

  32. In 2015 we expect to be ready to detect supernova neutrinos from anywhere in our galaxy, and send an immediate alert to the rest of this Kakenhi’s membersand their facilities around the world.  We will let you know the light is on its way!

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