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arxiv: 1104.5620 · v3 · pith:CXGK6TDMnew · submitted 2011-04-29 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · hep-ex· physics.ins-det

The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA

Michael Wurm , John F. Beacom , Leonid B. Bezrukov , Daniel Bick , Johannes Bl\"umer , Sandhya Choubey , Christian Ciemniak , Davide D'Angelo
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Basudeb Dasgupta Amol Dighe Grigorij Domogatsky Steve Dye Sergey Eliseev Timo Enqvist Alexey Erykalov Franz von Feilitzsch Gianni Fiorentini Tobias Fischer Marianne G\"oger-Neff Peter Grabmayr Caren Hagner Dominikus Hellgartner Johannes Hissa Shunsaku Horiuchi Hans-Thomas Janka Claude Jaupart Josef Jochum Tuomo Kalliokoski Pasi Kuusiniemi Tobias Lachenmaier Ionel Lazanu John G. Learned Timo Lewke Paolo Lombardi Sebastian Lorenz Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev Livia Ludhova Kai Loo Jukka Maalampi Fabio Mantovani Michela Marafini Jelena Maricic Teresa Marrod\'an Undagoitia William F. McDonough Lino Miramonti Alessandro Mirizzi Quirin Meindl Olga Mena Randolph M\"ollenberg Rolf Nahnhauer Dmitry Nesterenko Yuri N. Novikov Guido Nuijten Lothar Oberauer Sandip Pakvasa Sergio Palomares-Ruiz Marco Pallavicini Silvia Pascoli Thomas Patzak Juha Peltoniemi Walter Potzel Tomi R\"aih\"a Georg G. Raffelt Gioacchino Ranucci Soebur Razzaque Kari Rummukainen Juho Sarkamo Valerij Sinev Christian Spiering Achim Stahl Felicitas Thorne Marc Tippmann Alessandra Tonazzo Wladyslaw H. Trzaska John D. Vergados Christopher Wiebusch J\"urgen Winter
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keywords neutrinolenaliquid-scintillatordetectorenergyexperimentslow-energynext-generation
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We propose the liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) as a next-generation neutrino observatory on the scale of 50 kt. The outstanding successes of the Borexino and KamLAND experiments demonstrate the large potential of liquid-scintillator detectors in low-energy neutrino physics. LENA's physics objectives comprise the observation of astrophysical and terrestrial neutrino sources as well as the investigation of neutrino oscillations. In the GeV energy range, the search for proton decay and long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments complement the low-energy program. Based on the considerable expertise present in European and international research groups, the technical design is sufficiently mature to allow for an early start of detector realization.

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