Snowmass 2021 White Paper: The Selena Neutrino Experiment

arXiv

2203.08779

Date

2022-03-16

Frontier

Neutrino Physics Frontier (NF)

Topical groups

• NF5

Submitted by

Alvaro E Chavarria

Abstract

Imaging devices made from an ionization target layer of amorphous selenium (aSe) coupled to a silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) active pixel array for charge readout are a promising technology for neutrino physics. The high spatial resolution in a solid-state target provides unparalleled rejection of backgrounds from natural radioactivity in the search for neutrinoless $\beta \beta$ decay and for electron neutrino (${\nu }_e$) spectroscopy with ${}^{82}$Se. In this white paper, we summarize the broad scientific program of a large imaging detector with a 10-ton target of ${}^{82}$Se. We review the detector technology, and outline the ongoing research program to realize this experiment.