Large underground, liquid based detectors for astro-particle physics in Europe: scientificcase and prospects

D Autiero; J Äystö; A Badertscher; L Bezrukov; J Bouchez; A Bueno; J Busto; J-E Campagne; Ch Cavata; L Chaussard; A de Bellefon; Y Déclais; J Dumarchez; J Ebert; T Enqvist; A Ereditato; F von Feilitzsch; P Fileviez Perez; M Göger-Neff; S Gninenko; W Gruber; C Hagner; M Hess; K A Hochmuth; J Kisiel; L Knecht; I Kreslo; V A Kudryavtsev; P Kuusiniemi; T Lachenmaier; M Laffranchi; B Lefievre; P K Lightfoot; M Lindner; J Maalampi; M Maltoni; A Marchionni; T Marrodán Undagoitia; J Marteau; A Meregaglia; M Messina; M Mezzetto; A Mirizzi; L Mosca; U Moser; A Müller; G Natterer; L Oberauer; P Otiougova; T Patzak; J Peltoniemi; W Potzel; C Pistillo; G G Raffelt; E Rondio; M Roos; B Rossi; A Rubbia; N Savvinov; T Schwetz; J Sobczyk; N J C Spooner; D Stefan; A Tonazzo; W Trzaska; J Ulbricht; C Volpe; J Winter; M Wurm; A Zalewska; R Zimmermann

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2007/11/011

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Large underground, liquid based detectors for astro-particle physics in Europe: scientific case and prospects

D Autiero¹, J Äystö², A Badertscher³, L Bezrukov⁴, J Bouchez⁵, A Bueno⁶, J Busto⁷, J-E Campagne⁸, Ch Cavata⁹, L Chaussard¹, A de Bellefon¹⁰, Y Déclais¹, J Dumarchez¹¹, J Ebert¹², T Enqvist¹³, A Ereditato¹⁴, F von Feilitzsch¹⁵, P Fileviez Perez¹⁶, M Göger-Neff¹⁷, S Gninenko⁴, W Gruber³, C Hagner¹², M Hess¹⁴, K A Hochmuth¹⁷, J Kisiel¹⁸, L Knecht³, I Kreslo¹⁴, V A Kudryavtsev¹⁹, P Kuusiniemi¹³, T Lachenmaier¹⁵, M Laffranchi³, B Lefievre¹⁰, P K Lightfoot¹⁹, M Lindner²⁰, J Maalampi², M Maltoni²¹, A Marchionni³, T Marrodán Undagoitia¹⁵, J Marteau¹, A Meregaglia³, M Messina¹⁴, M Mezzetto²², A Mirizzi^17,23, L Mosca⁹, U Moser¹⁴, A Müller³, G Natterer³, L Oberauer¹⁵, P Otiougova³, T Patzak¹⁰, J Peltoniemi¹³, W Potzel¹⁵, C Pistillo¹⁴, G G Raffelt¹⁷, E Rondio²⁴, M Roos²⁵, B Rossi¹⁴, A Rubbia³, N Savvinov¹⁴, T Schwetz²⁶, J Sobczyk²⁷, N J C Spooner¹⁹, D Stefan²⁸, A Tonazzo¹⁰, W Trzaska², J Ulbricht³, C Volpe²⁹, J Winter¹⁵, M Wurm¹⁵, A Zalewska²⁸ and R Zimmermann¹²

Published 13 November 2007 • IOP Publishing Ltd
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume 2007, November 2007 Citation D Autiero et al JCAP11(2007)011 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/11/011

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¹ IPNL, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, 69622 Villeurbanne, France

² Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

³ Institut für Teilchenphysik, ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland

⁴ Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

⁵ CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette and APC Paris, France

⁶ Departamento Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, Spain

⁷ Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), IN2P3-CNRS et Université d'Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France

⁸ LAL, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Orsay, France

⁹ CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France

¹⁰ Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), CNRS, Université Paris VII, CEA, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France

¹¹ Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Energies (LPNHE), IN2P3-CNRS et Universités Paris VI et Paris VII, Paris, France

¹² Universität Hamburg, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany

¹³ CUPP, University of Oulu, Finland

¹⁴ Laboratorium für Hochenergie Physik, Bern Universität, Bern, Switzerland

¹⁵ Technische Universität München, Physik-Department E15, Garching, Germany

¹⁶ Centro de Fisica Teorica de Particulas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Departamento de Fisica, Lisboa, Portugal

¹⁷ Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München, Germany

¹⁸ Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

¹⁹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

²⁰ Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

²¹ Departamento de Física Teórica & Instituto de Física Teórica, Facultad de Ciencias C-XI, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

²² INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy

²³ INFN Sezione di Bari and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy

²⁴ A Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland

²⁵ Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

²⁶ CERN, Physics Department, Theory Division, Geneva, Switzerland

²⁷ Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland

²⁸ H Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland

²⁹ Institut de Physique Nucleaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Groupe de Physique Theorique, Université de Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France

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Received 23 May 2007
Accepted 18 October 2007
Published 13 November 2007

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Abstract

This document reports on a series of experimental and theoretical studies conducted to assess the astro-particle physics potential of three future large scale particle detectors proposed in Europe as next generation underground observatories. The proposed apparatuses employ three different and, to some extent, complementary detection techniques: GLACIER (liquid argon TPC), LENA (liquid scintillator) and MEMPHYS (water Cherenkov), based on the use of large mass of liquids as active detection media. The results of these studies are presented along with a critical discussion of the performance attainable by the three proposed approaches coupled to existing or planned underground laboratories, in relation to open and outstanding physics issues such as the search for matter instability, the detection of astrophysical neutrinos and geo-neutrinos and to the possible use of these detectors in future high intensity neutrino beams.

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An erratum page was received on 25 April 2008 and added to the end of the published paper on 9 May 2008.