CPAD Workshop 2022

Status of the installation and commissioning of the SBND detector at Fermilab

Not scheduled

20m

Wang Center, Stony Brook University

Contribution Talk WG3: Noble Element Detectors WG3: Noble Element Detectors

Speakers

Dr Andrew Blake (University of Lancaster)Dr Raquel Castillo Fernandez (University of Texas at Arlington)Dr Rhiannon Jones (University of Sheffield)Dr Vishvas Pandey (Fermilab)

Description

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) will be one of three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detectors positioned along the axis of the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab, as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. The detector has been recently is completed and is anticipated to begin operation in 2023. SBND will record over a million neutrino interactions per year. Thanks to its unique combination of measurement resolution and statistics, SBND will carry out a rich program of neutrino interaction measurements and novel searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). It will enable the potential of the overall SBN sterile neutrino program by performing a precise characterization of the unoscillated event rate, and constraining BNB flux and neutrino-argon cross-section systematic uncertainties. In this talk, the current status and the plan for detector installation and commissioning are discussed.