Speaker
Dr
David Hadley
(University of Warwick)
Description
The Tokai Intermediate Tank for Unoscillated Spectrum (TITUS)
detector is a proposed addition to the Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K)
experiment, located approximately 2 km from the J-PARC neutrino beam.
The design consists of a 2 kton Gd-doped water Cherenkov tank, partially
covered by a magnetised muon range detector. The target material and
location were chosen so that the neutrino interactions and beam spectrum
at TITUS would match those of Hyper-K. Including a 0.1% Gd concentration
allows for nu/antinu discrimination via neutron tagging. The primary
goal of TITUS is to measure the neutrino spectrum at the near detector
with a very high precision, thus improving the Hyper-Kamiokande CP
violation sensitivity. TITUS is also able to precisely measure cross
section as a function of the neutron multiplicity and can be used for
physics unrelated to the J-PARC beam, functioning as an independent
detector for supernova neutrino bursts and measuring the neutron rate to
improve Hyper-K proton decay searches.
Also, a more general overview on the physics with gadolinium both for high and low energy physics and synergy with other worldwide programmes will be given.
Collaboration
The TITUS working group
Primary author
Dr
David Hadley
(University of Warwick)
