Speaker
Prof.
Jennifer Thomas
(UCL)
Description
The CHIPS detector (10 kt ) will be deployed in a flooded mine pit in the path of the NuMI beam in 2018.
The detector design has been informed from two years of prototype work where a small detector was
deployed in the Wentworth 2E pit, N. Minnesota. Detector plane and readout design has largely been fixed.
The goal of the experiment is to demonstrate a low cost solution for very large water Cherenkov detectors, sensitive enough to identify
electron neutrinos appearing from oscillations in a muon neutrino beam. Reconstruction and simulation indicate a
significant reduction in detector density is possible without loss of efficiency.
Primary author
Prof.
Jennifer Thomas
(UCL)
