Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aps..ses..dd06b&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, Southeastern Section Meeting, November 13-15, 1998 Miami, Florida, abstract #DD.06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
We describe the design and status of a 1 kton liquid scintillator detector to be installed in the underground cavity where Kamiokande used to be. The experiment is optimized to detect low--energy anti--neutrinos, and it will perform unique measurements in the fields of neutrino physics, geophysics, and astrophysics. One of the initial goals will be to perform a very long baseline oscillation experiment using a large number of nuclear reactors. Such an experiment will be sensitive to neutrino mass--squared differences as low as ~7×10-6 eV^2, addressing for the first time in a laboratory experiment some of the possible solutions to the solar neutrino problem. Observation of neutrinos from the Earth, supernovae, and the atmosphere, as well as search for nucleon decay, will also be part of the initial research program; while in a later stage the observation of solar neutrinos and other channels requiring ultra--low backgrounds will become the main focus. KamLAND is conceived as a ``scalable'' detector that will be able to start in a very short time to deliver results on a number of important physics issues that require only present--day technology. The first running period will also establish backgrounds and detector requirements for a second ultra--low background running phase.
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