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The EPP detector development group recently pioneered a new technology to operate room-temperature liquid scintillator detectors for neutrino physics.

Instead of utilising purely the traditional light signal from scintillating detector materials, it was shown that for several classes of liquid scintillator materials, electric charges can be transported over macroscopic distances, allowing the exciting prospect of large volume, room-temperature time projection chambers as neutrino detectors. This breakthrough could enable detectors of a size required for future neutrino physics (ten's of kilo-tons) at a feasible cost in contrast to existing proposals based on liquid argon, both financially and from an engineering perspective, while not compromising on the amount of information, i.e. physics, obtainable. Likewise, this technology might inspire an ultimate double beta decay experiment, effectively merging the current set of UK double beta projects, SNO+ and SuperNEMO with all their individual benefits such as large mass, particle tracking information and lowest possible background into one future experiment to reveal the particle nature and mass of neutrinos.