Speaker
Description
The new CLOUD experiment, supported by the eponymous international collaboration (16 academic institutions and EDF), will be presented for the first time. CLOUD relies on the first ever ~10-ton LiquidO detector, which will be deployed at the new Chooz’s “ultra-near detector” site, located at ~30 m from one of the nuclear reactors with minimal overburden. With ≥10,000 antineutrino interactions per day and an expected signal-to-background ≥100, CLOUD is designed for unprecedented fundamental physics. The CLOUD-I addresses the fundamental physics programme associated with the primary goal of the fully-funded (EIC & UKRI) AntiMatter-OTech innovation-based project that aims to develop non-intrusive industrial reactor monitoring. Also under active exploration, the subsequent CLOUD-II and CLOUD-III are independent neutrino scientific programmes exploring novel solar and geo-neutrino detection methodologies otherwise impossible today. The proposed presentation would thus describe the next generation of Chooz-based experiments within the scientific prospect of the large SuperChooz experiment — also under exploration.
