Speaker
Patrick Stengel
(Jožef Stefan Institute)
Description
Terrestrial mineral detector searches for signatures of new physics can be challenging due to the large backgrounds oringiating from cosmic ray interactions with the Earth's atmosphere. However, the Moon offers a reprieve from these backgrounds, since the conventional components of the cosmic-ray-induced fluxes of muons and neutrinos are significantly suppressed due to the Moon's lack of atmosphere. We discuss the physics potential of a futuristic mineral detector experiment on the Moon, particularly in the context of a search for proton decay signatures, given proton lifetimes which would not be possible to detect with a terrestrial mineral detector experiment and could possibly exceed the sensitivity of DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande.
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Primary author
Patrick Stengel
(Jožef Stefan Institute)
