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The coherent contribution of all neutrons in neutrino nucleus scattering due to the neutral current offers a realistic prospect of detecting supernova neutrinos. For a typical supernova at 10 kpc, about 1000 events are expected using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 J. D. Vergados , Y. Giomataris

We identify a new, flux-dependent correction to the antineutrino spectrum as produced in nuclear reactors. The abundance of certain nuclides, whose decay chains produce antineutrinos above the threshold for inverse beta decay, has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Patrick Huber , Patrick Jaffke

We discuss the possibility of forecasting earthquakes by means of (anti)neutrino tomography. Antineutrinos emitted from reactors are used as a probe. As the antineutrinos traverse through a region prone to earthquakes, observable variations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Bin Wang , Ya-Zheng Chen , Xue-Qian Li

There has been designed an experimental project "Neutrino-4" for 100 MW reactor SM-3 to test the hypothesis of the "reactor antineutrino anomaly". Advantages of the reactor SM-3 for such an experiment are low background conditions as well…

RED-100 is a two-phase emission detector with an active volume containing 126~kg of liquid xenon. The detector was exposed to the antineutrino flux of about $1.4 \cdot 10^{13}~$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ at a distance of 19~m from the 3.1~GW Kalinin…

This Letter reports the first scientific results from the observation of antineutrinos emitted by fission products of $^{235}$U at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, consists…

Core-collapse supernovae emit of order $10^{58}$ neutrinos and antineutrinos of all flavors over several seconds, with average energies of 10--25 MeV. In the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), which begins operations this year, neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 J. F. Beacom , P. Vogel

The Daya Bay experiment measures sin^2 2{\theta}_13 using functionally identical antineutrino detectors located at distances of 300 to 2000 meters from the Daya Bay nuclear power complex. Each detector consists of three nested fluid volumes…

We have developed a neutrino detector with threshold energies from ~0.115 to 105 MeV in a clean detection mode almost completely void of accidental backgrounds. It was initially developed for the NASA $\nu$SOL project to put a solar…

Measuring the neutrino mixing parameter \ensuremath{\sin^2\theta_{13}} to the sub-percent precision level could be necessary in the next ten years for the precision unitary test of the PMNS matrix. In this work, we discuss the possibility…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-17 Jinnan Zhang , Jun Cao

Sensitive searches for antineutrino oscillations in atmospheric mass parameter region much discussed in recent years are based on accurate comparison of the inverse beta decay positron spectra measured in two (or more) detectors, far and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

A fast neutron spectrometer consisting of segmented plastic scintillator and He-3 proportional counters was constructed for the measurement of neutrons in the energy range 1 MeV to 200 MeV. We discuss its design, principles of operation,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-24 T. J. Langford , C. D. Bass , E. J. Beise , H. Breuer , D. K. Erwin , C. R. Heimbach , J. S. Nico

After a summary of the basic three neutrino oscillation formalism we review briefly our present empirical knowledge of the oscillation parameters and conclude that the 2-neutrinos model is adequate to describe the survival probability of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bouchiat

A liquid Argon TPC (ICARUS-like) has the ability to detect neutrino bursts from type-II supernova collapses, via three processes: elastic scattering by electrons from all neutrino species, and $\nu_e$ charged current absorption on $Ar$ with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bueno , I. Gil-Botella , A. Rubbia

The MINERvA collaboration operated a scaled-down replica of the solid scintillator tracking and sampling calorimeter regions of the MINERvA detector in a hadron test beam at the Fermilab Test Beam Facility. This article reports measurements…

A $\theta_{13}$ oscillation analysis based on the observed antineutrino rates at the Double Chooz far and near detectors for different reactor power conditions is presented. This approach provides a so far unique simultaneous determination…

Neutrino elastic scattering observation with NaI (NEON) is an experiment designed to detect neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering using reactor electron antineutrinos. NEON is based on an array of six NaI(Tl) crystals with a total mass of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-05 J. J. Choi , E. J. Jeon , J. Y. Kim , K. W. Kim , S. H. Kim , S. K. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. J. Ko , B. C. Koh , C. Ha , B. J. Park , S. H. Lee , I. S. Lee , H. Lee , H. S. Lee , J. Lee , Y. M. Oh

We study the physics potential of a neutrino superbeam experiment with a 2540 km baseline. We assume a neutrino beam similar to the NuMI beam in medium energy configuration. We consider a 100 kton totally active scintillator detector at a 7…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-27 Aniket Joglekar , Suprabh Prakash , Sushant K. Raut , S. Uma Sankar

We have simulated the response of a high energy neutrino telescope to the stream of low energy neutrinos produced by a supernova. The nominal threshold of such detectors is in the GeV energy range. The passage of a large flux of MeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Halzen , J. E. Jacobsen , E. Zas