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Preliminary study of the inclusion of Water-based Liquid Scintillator in the WATCHMAN Detector

Sweany, Melinda; Feng, Patrick L.; Marleau, Peter M.

This note summarizes an effort to characterize the effects of adding water-based liquid scintillator to the WATCHMAN detector. A detector model was built in the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit, and the position reconstruction of positrons within the detector was compared with and without scintillator. This study highlights the need for further modeling studies and small-scale experimental studies before inclusion into a large-scale detector, as the benefits compared to the associated costs are unclear.