Conveners
H4: Neutrino Detectors
- Milind Diwan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
DANSS detector at Kalininskaya nuclear power plant demonstrates excellent performance in antineutrino detection. Counting rates of up to 5000 events per day made it possible to record more than 6.5 million antineutrino events in 6 years of remarkably stable operation. The data sample is extremely clean and features the signal to background ratio in excess of 50. Yet only moderate energy...
The HOLMES experiment aims to directly measure the ν mass studying the 163Ho electron capture decay spectrum, developing arrays of TES-based micro-calorimeters implanted with O(102 Bq/detector) $^{163}$Ho atoms.
The $^{163}$Ho embedding inside detectors is a crucial step of the experiment. Because $^{163}$Ho is produced by neutron irradiation of a $^{162}$Er sample, the source must be...
