Adam Bernstein for the WATCHMAN Collaboration Simulation courtesy G. Jocher/J Learned, U Hawaii This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S.

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Adam Bernstein for the WATCHMAN Collaboration Simulation courtesy G. Jocher/J Learned, U Hawaii This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract DE-AC52-07NA Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC Global reactor antineutrino fluxes

 A one-page nonproliferation tutorial  Antineutrinos and nonproliferation  The WATCHMAN project  The apparently unique advantages of the Boulby Mine  Nonproliferation, Technology and Fundamental Science 2

The IAEA Safeguards regime monitors the flow of fissile material through the nuclear fuel cycle in 170 countries Weapons production Generic fuel cycle IAEA goal – detect diversion of fissile material from peaceful to military programs Goal for antineutrino measurements - track fissile inventories in operating reactors t 3

Detected rates are quite reasonable Reactors emit huge numbers of antineutrinos 6 antineutrinos per fission from beta decay of daughters fissions per second in a 3,000-MWt reactor antineutrinos per square meter per second at 25-m standoff 6,000 events per ton per day with a perfect detector 600 events per ton per day with a simple detector (e.g., SONGS1) About antineutrinos are emitted per second from a typical PWR unattenuated and in all directions Example: detector total footprint with shielding is 2.5 meter on a side at 25-m standoff from a 3-GWt reactor 4

Determine reactor on/off status within 5 hours with 99.9% C.L. Measure thermal power to 3% in one week Sensitivity to 70 kg switch in U/PU: known power and initial fuel content In 2012, IAEA released an official report endorsing continued research into several reactor monitoring applications – including long range reactor monitoring 5

1000 tonnes scintillator 1000 m depth Per month: - 16 reactor antineutrinos - 1 background event From 130 GWt of reactors ~3% of signal from South Korean 400 km standoff The KamLAND detector 6

GoalDetector mass standoffRequired reduction in bg rate relative to KamLAND 16 events in 1 year from a 10 MWt reactor, ( 25% accurate thermal power) 10 kiloton~40 km10x 1 Megaton~400 km100x Global reactor antineutrino fluxes Science & Global Security, 18:127–192, 2010 Gadolinium-doped (light) water appears to be the most viable option for scaling to the largest sizes 7

1. Cross border detection – ultimate limit is perhaps ~800 km 2. Continuous surveillance 3. Constraints on power and plutonium production rate 4. With long range capability, no cueing information required 5. Eventually: Reactor localization with improved directionality or spectral measurement 8 My own guess at the most likely use: cooperative deployment to confirm absence of reactors in a prescribed wide area

UC Davis UC Berkeley UC Irvine U of Hawaii Hawaii Pacific University Virginia Tech. Current Phase: Two U.S. National Laboratories, 6 Universities, 4 M$, 2.25 years 9

 Overall Project Goal: demonstrate sensitivity to reactor antineutrinos using a gadolinium-doped (light) water detector at kilometer standoff from a MWt US research reactor, or kilometers from a 3000 MWt scale US commercial power reactor. Kiloton scale detector Research or power reactor // km standoff meters overburden First Phase, :  identify site  measure backgrounds  develop a design envelope for the detector // 10

- HyperKamiokande 560,000 ton multipurpose water detector being planned by Japan Time scale: ~12 years Interest in U.S. science community in participation will lead to further R&D in this area Gd an option but not guaranteed Our demonstration would give strong confidence for exercising the Gd option EGADS- 200 ton deeply buried detector to evaluate Gd-doped antineutrino detection backgrounds materials energy thresholds This detector volume is too small for direct demonstration of sensitivity 11

Backgrounds: 1.Real antineutrinos 2.Random event pair coincidences 3.Muon induced high energy neutrons 4.Long-lived (~ 1 sec) radionuclide decays n ( MeV) n n   9 Li  Signal in 1 kiloton of water n e p  ~ 8 MeV 511 keV e+e+ Gd  ~ 30  s prompt e + signal + n capture on Gd Exactly two Cerenkov flashes within ~100 microseconds Within a cubic meter voxel ‘The antineutrino heartbeat’ 12

 Shallow Depths ( meters): not well known, measure as a function of overburden at a US facility (Kimballton)  Boulby: (1 km) reasonable extrapolations from past and ongoing experiments (KamLAND, Soudan mine water detector) high energy neutron spectrometer radionuclide detector (Water doped with gadolinium) 13

1.Detect as few as ~1 but no greater than 10 signal events per day. 2.Three sigma detection of the presence of the reactor in <~1 month. For 1 signal event per day  tolerable background is 2 events per day. Greater standoff can be compensated by greater overburden 3.Overburden: Existing overburden preferred (cost savings) 4.Reactor Power: A small reactor is preferred, (greater similarity with the ultimate intended use) 14

1000 ton det. target mass Power = 85 MWth S = 13 events per day B = 164 events per day 10 days ON and OFF to 3 sigma Main problem: excavation costs are high 15

20 kilometer radius S~B = 0.9 events per day 20 days (ON and OFF) to 3 sigma (S = 0.7 events per day) 30 days 25 kilometer radius 1000 ton detector target mass Power = 1570 MWth (2 cores) 16

 Event rate meets our detection goal  Depth suppresses most backgrounds  Relatively large standoff provides a convincing demonstration  Mature, well-run, well supported underground science infrastructure  Excavation costs lower than ‘greenfield’ options  Recent mine activity allows for larger cavern (15x15x15 m)  International cooperative deployment underscores and reinforces nonproliferation commitments of all participants  World-class science and a path towards very large detectors 17

 A 1000 ton detector even with moderate overburden (few 100 m.w.e.) could detect ~700 events from a supernova at the galactic center. Any detector capable of detecting reactor antineutrinos can do this by default (SN antineutrinos are higher energy and easier to detect). WATCHMAN would see antineutrinos from a supernova like 1987a, shown here in the visible Pre

 First ever demonstration of sensitivity to reactor antineutrinos at appreciable standoff from a reactor using a gadolinium-doped water detector – probably the only scalable technology choice  A concrete example to policy makers of a reliable low event rate antineutrino-based measurement system, with unambiguous detection of only a few events per day  Detection efficiencies and backgrounds for large Gd- WCD detectors  Well-benchmarked detector and background simulation tools  Experience with gadolinium-doped water handling, purification monitoring in order to scale to next generation experiment Now:  Core-collapse supernovae in this galaxy Eventually ?  Megaparsec supernovae detection  Diffuse supernova neutrino detection  proton decay  long baseline neutrino CP phase and mass- hierarchy experiments  60 km standoff mass hierarchy measurements at reactors Nonproliferation Technology Fundamental Physics 19

 Antineutrino detectors deployed a few hundred meters from reactors detect operational status, thermal power and Pu production  Attempts at the far more ambitious long-range capability are underway in both the nonproliferation and scientific communities  WATCHMAN aims to meet a nonproliferation need and become a source of interesting science and detector technology for the neutrino community 20

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Perry Reactor Nuclear Generating Station to IMB cavern in the Fairport Salt Mine (Ohio) 1570 m.w.e. cavity was 18m x 17m x 22.5m ~13 km standoff 3875 MWth Pros Existing cavern in active mine. Large depth for low background. Cons Large stand-off will give low signal rate ( per day). Old cavern likely to require renovation.

1. The energy spectrum of muogenic fast neutrons as a function of depth below the Earth’s surface Allows us to model double-neutron antineutrino-like backgrounds in a kiloton scale detector 2. The rate of muogenic radionuclides such as 9Li Allows us to set an upper limit on the contamination of our signal by these antineutrino-like backgrounds 26

Plastic scintillator/Gd doped paint detectors sandwich ~4 tons of lead. Direct interaction with scintillator for E < ~100 MeV. Neutron multiplication off of the lead for E > ~50 MeV. Expect events per month at 100 m.w.e.

Detector + muon veto + data acquisition and peripherals are less than 9 tons. Platform will be standard trailer outfitted with power and AC.

3.5x3.5 meter detector with 1.5x1.5 meter active inner volume. Four optically segmented volumes with 0.1% GdCl3 doping. Three inner volumes define a muon ‘telescope’ The central volume is the search region. The outer volume is the muon/neutron veto.

Drive in access Can deploy from 100 feet to 1400 feet of overburden Use of the same detector at multiple depths ensures reliable comparison of results First-ever continuous measurement as a function of depth

32 PhaseActivity ISiting and Scoping, including site identification and detailed estimates of signal, background, required overburden and total project cost, and experimental measurement of backgrounds  Sponsor approval of large detector IIDesign and site licensing IIIConstruction IVDeployment VData-taking and demonstration to end users