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Theia is a proposed many-ktonne scale ``hybrid" optical neutrino detector with the potential for a broad physics program. Hybrid detectors leverage advancing technology in fast-timing photon sensors, chromatic photon sorting, and new scintillating materials, such as water-based liquid scintillator, in order to simultaneously distinguish both the Cherenkov and scintillation signals. Using the scintillation light, Theia can achieve excellent vertex and energy reconstruction and sub-Cherenkov thresholds, while the ring imaging from the Cherenkov signal provides directionality and enhanced particle identification. This technology enables a broad physics program including world-class measurements of low- and high-energy solar neutrinos, sensitive searches for nucleon decay, observation of the diffuse supernova background, a sensitive probe of geo and reactor neutrinos, and ultimately a search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Theia can provide a complementary measurement, using a low-Z target material, of $\delta_{cp}$ and the neutrino mass ordering if deployed as a far detector module as part of Phase II of DUNE. Overall, Theia provides a uniquely broad program and presents an exciting opportunity for the future of neutrino physics.
| Do you describe your self as early career? | yes |
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| Please select if remarks will be in person or on zoom | On zoom |
| Please add details of experiment/project that this abstract corresponds to? | Theia |