Physics – Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aps..dnp..f409g&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting, October 28-31, 1998 Santa Fe, New Mexico, abstract #F4.09
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
We present the scientific motivations and the initial design of a very large 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. 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 essential physics issues that only require present day technology. This first running period will also establish backgrounds and detector requirements for a second ultra-low background running phase. One of the initial aims will be to perform a very long baseline oscillation experiment using a large number of nuclear reactors. This can be considered the ``ultimate'' neutrino mass test using the oscillation technique and will cover the large mixing angle solution of the solar neutrino anomaly with a ``laboratory'' experiment. The observation of neutrinos from the Earth, supernovae, atmosphere and nucleon decay will also be part of a very ambitious initial program, while in a later stage the observation of solar and neutrinos and other rare events with a single energy deposition will become the main focus.
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