The $\nu$ EYE Neutrino Telescope: Conceptual Design Report
Abstract
The {} (``new eye'', Neutrino Experiment at YEmilab, \href{https://sites.google.com/korea.ac.kr/the-nueye-telescope} {\tt nuEYE.korea.ac.kr}) neutrino project leverages the existing large pit at Yemilab located in South Korea, to reveal the existence of sterile neutrino, the up-turn of the neutrinos from the Sun, and the first minimum of the neutrino oscillation over distances on the order of tens of kilometers for the first time. This initiative is expected to facilitate a wide range of significant scientific and technological advancements within both South Korean and international communities engaged in neutrino science and technology. The {} aims to investigate the largely unexplored sector of almost-massless lepton in the elementary particle physics in detail. The emphasis will be placed on the study of real time nuclear processes and reactions involving possible sterile neutrinos on timescales down to nanoseconds in ultra-high intense or radioactive neutrino beams for the first time in the world; the {} looks at to-be universal oscillation (``up-turn'' in the electron neutrino survival probability) of neutrinos predicted by the three neutrino oscillation paradigm. This will confirm or deny our current understanding on the particle interactions of the lepton sector; and measurement of the first oscillation minimum between the first and second neutrinos in mass.
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@article{arxiv.2601.12569,
title = {The $\nu$ EYE Neutrino Telescope: Conceptual Design Report},
author = {Shaomin Chen and YangHwan Ahn and Davide Franco and Fabio Mantovani and Aldo Ianni and Jiyong Choi and S. Gwon and K. K. Joo and Chang Hyon Ha and Kim Siyeon and Jong-Chul Park and M. Pac and Pouya Bakhti and Meshkat Rajaee and Seodong Shin and Young Ju Ko and Bo-Young Han and Jihoon Choi and B. R. Ko and HyangKyu Park and Gihan Hong and Jaebak Kim and Minseo Kim and Kyungmin Lee and E. Won and Jae Hyeok Yoo and J. Y. Cho and J. Y. Lee and D. W. Jeong and H. J. Kim and Sin Kyu Kang and Myung-Ki Cheoun and V. Kornoukhov and V. Kobychev and V. I. Tretyak and Steve Elliott and Jose R. Alonso and Janet M. Conrad and Michael H. Shaevitz and Joshua Spitz and Daniel Winklehner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12569},
year = {2026}
}
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