OLIVIA Experiment Simulation

OLIVIA (Optical Lithium V-Minus-A) is a low energy, high precision experiment that aims to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, it will use an optical TPC to study Li-8 beta decay in order to search for non-standard interactions in the electroweak sector. This will be done by performing a kinematically complete measurement that will allow extracting the beta-neutrino angular correlation coefficient. Unlike traditional experiments, which rely on ion trapping, the use of an optical TPC will allow a significant increase in statistics, which will also improve systematics. This work focuses on results of a Monte Carlo simulation study of OLIVIA using the Garfield++ software package, with emphasis on optimization of decay kinematics reconstruction.