AIT / WATCHMAN: Year One
AIT / 守望者:第一年
基本信息
- 批准号:ST/S006400/1
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 253.46万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:英国
- 项目类别:Research Grant
- 财政年份:2018
- 资助国家:英国
- 起止时间:2018 至 无数据
- 项目状态:未结题
- 来源:
- 关键词:
项目摘要
The Advanced Instrumentation Testbed (AIT) is a new facility, to be sited in the Boulby Underground Laboratory, that aims to explore new technologies for the purposes of nuclear non-proliferation and particle physics. The first phase of AIT is the WATer CHerenkov Monitor for Anti-Neutrinos (WATCHMAN). WATCHMAN construction is primarily funded through the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). UK involvement is a partnership between our industrial partners in the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), the STFC-Boulby laboratory, and the Universities of Sheffield, Edinburgh, and Liverpool.The WATCHMAN detector is a technology demonstrator, which will attempt the first monitoring of nuclear reactors from a standoff distance of tens of kilometres. The mechanism for this monitoring is anti-neutrino detection. Nuclear reactions all produce a large flux of anti-neutrinos, which cannot be shielded. The WATCHMAN detector combines the decades-old technology of water Cherenkov neutrino detectors with the new technique of gadolinium loading. Adding gadolinium to the detector makes it sensitive to the neutron that is produced in an anti-neutrino interaction, but not a low-energy neutrino interaction. As such, the coincident signature of positron plus neutron can be used to tag anti-neutrinos.If successful, the techniques pioneered by WATCHMAN could be used to search for clandestine nuclear reactors as a means of non-proliferation and nuclear threat reduction.The AIT also includes a significant component of research and development into new detection materials and technologies. For this purpose, AIT will be investigating fast photosensors such as the Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector (LAPPD), and new detector materials, such as water-based liquid scintillator. These can be used in future phases of the project to enhance the reactor detection range, as well as to enable particle physics goals such as geoneutrino studies and searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay.
先进仪器试验台(AIT)是一个新的设施,将设在博尔比地下实验室,旨在探索核不扩散和粒子物理学方面的新技术。AIT的第一阶段是WATER CHerenkov反中微子监测器(WATCHMAN)。WATCHMAN的建造主要由美国国家核安全管理局(NNSA)资助。英国的参与是我们在原子武器研究所(AWE)、STFC-博尔比实验室以及谢菲尔德大学、爱丁堡大学和利物浦大学的工业伙伴之间的伙伴关系。WATCHMAN探测器是一种技术演示器,它将首次尝试从数十公里的远距离监测核反应堆。这种监测的机制是反中微子探测。核反应都会产生大量的反中微子,这些反中微子是无法屏蔽的。WATCHMAN探测器将几十年前的水切伦科夫中微子探测器技术与钆装载新技术相结合。在探测器中加入钆使其对反中微子相互作用产生的中子敏感,但对低能中微子相互作用不敏感。因此,正电子加中子的重合特征可以用来标记反中微子。如果成功的话,WATCHMAN开创的技术可以用来寻找秘密的核反应堆,作为不扩散和减少核威胁的一种手段。AIT还包括研究和开发新的探测材料和技术的重要组成部分。为此,AIT将研究快速光电传感器,如大面积皮秒光电探测器(LAPPD),以及新的探测器材料,如水基液体闪烁体。这些可以用于项目的未来阶段,以提高反应堆的探测范围,以及实现粒子物理学目标,如地中微子研究和寻找无中微子双β衰变。
项目成果
期刊论文数量(2)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
Coincidence-based reconstruction for reactor antineutrino detection in gadolinium-doped Cherenkov detectors
- DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2023.168375
- 发表时间:2022-10
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:L. Kneale;M. Smy;M. Malek
- 通讯作者:L. Kneale;M. Smy;M. Malek
Development of ultra-pure gadolinium sulfate for the Super-Kamiokande gadolinium project
为Super-Kamiokande钆项目开发超纯硫酸钆
- DOI:10.1093/ptep/ptac170
- 发表时间:2023
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:3.5
- 作者:小田頌子;富永さやか;竹内峻平;藤泰子;角谷徹仁;K.Hosokawa 他
- 通讯作者:K.Hosokawa 他
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Davide Costanzo其他文献
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Sheffield Responsive RA for exploitation of ADMX, ATLAS, LZ, T2K
用于利用 ADMX、ATLAS、LZ、T2K 的 Sheffield Responsive RA
- 批准号:
ST/X005879/1 - 财政年份:2023
- 资助金额:
$ 253.46万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
Particle Physics Consolidated Grant from the University of Sheffield: Energy Frontier, Neutrinos, Dark Matter and R&D
谢菲尔德大学粒子物理学综合资助:能源前沿、中微子、暗物质和 R
- 批准号:
ST/W000547/1 - 财政年份:2022
- 资助金额:
$ 253.46万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
ATLAS Upgrade Phase 2 Construction 2021-23 -- Sheffield
ATLAS 升级第二阶段建设 2021-23 -- 谢菲尔德
- 批准号:
ST/W006979/1 - 财政年份:2022
- 资助金额:
$ 253.46万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
GridPP6 Sheffield Tier-2 Hardware Tranche-2 (2022-2024)
GridPP6 谢菲尔德 Tier-2 硬件第二批 (2022-2024)
- 批准号:
ST/X000389/1 - 财政年份:2021
- 资助金额:
$ 253.46万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
SoftWare InFrastructure and Technology for High Energy Physics experiments (SWIFT-HEP)
高能物理实验软件基础设施和技术 (SWIFT-HEP)
- 批准号:
ST/V002562/1 - 财政年份:2021
- 资助金额:
$ 253.46万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
SoftWare InFrastructure and Technology for High Energy Physics experiments (2020) at the University of Sheffield
谢菲尔德大学高能物理实验软件基础设施和技术 (2020)
- 批准号:
ST/V005987/1 - 财政年份:2020
- 资助金额:
$ 253.46万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
Particle Physics Consolidated Grant from the University of Sheffield: Energy Frontier, Neutrinos, Dark Matter
谢菲尔德大学粒子物理学综合资助:能源前沿、中微子、暗物质
- 批准号:
ST/S000747/1 - 财政年份:2019
- 资助金额:
$ 253.46万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
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- 批准号:
ST/T005319/1 - 财政年份:2019
- 资助金额:
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- 资助金额:
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- 批准号:
483760-2015 - 财政年份:2015
- 资助金额:
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University Undergraduate Student Research Awards