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Third road to the OPERA: a tunnel after all?

The debate on OPERA focused on two extremes: either "OPERA is wrong" or our formulation of the laws of physics needs a major overhaul. I here argue that some effort should be directed toward manifestations of laws that are already known,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-01 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

LBNO-DEMO: Large-scale neutrino detector demonstrators for phased performance assessment in view of a long-baseline oscillation experiment

In June 2012, an Expression of Interest for a long-baseline experiment (LBNO) has been submitted to the CERN SPSC. LBNO considers three types of neutrino detector technologies: a double-phase liquid argon (LAr) TPC and a magnetised iron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-17 L. Agostino , B. Andrieu , R. Asfandiyarov , D. Autiero , O. Bésida , F. Bay , R. Bayes , A. M. Blebea-Apostu , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , S. Bolognesi , S. Bordoni , A. Bravar , M. Buizza-Avanzini , F. Cadoux , D. Caiulo , M. Calin , M. Campanelli , C. Cantini , L. Chaussard , D. Chesneanu , N. Colino , P. Crivelli , I. De Bonis , Y. Déclais , J. Dawson , C. De La Taille , P. Del Amo Sanchez , A. Delbart , S. Di Luise , D. Duchesneau , F. Dulucq , J. Dumarchez , I. Efthymiopoulos , S. Emery , T. Enqvist , L. Epprecht , T. Esanu , D. Franco , D. Franco , M. Friend , V. Galymov , A. Gendotti , C. Giganti , I. Gil-Botella , M. C Gomoiu , P. Gorodetzky , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , S. Horikawa , M. Ieva , A. Jipa , Y. Karadzhov , I. Karpikov , A. Khotjantsev , A. Korzenev , D. Kryn , Y. Kudenko , P. Kuusiniemi , I. Lazanu , J. -M. Levy , K. Loo , T. Lux , J. Maalampi , R. M. Margineanu , J. Marteau , C. Martin , G. Martin-Chassard , E. Mazzucato , A. Mefodiev , O. Mineev , B. Mitrica , S. Murphy , T. Nakadaira , M. Nessi , K. Nikolics , L. Nita , E. Noah , P. Novella , G. A. Nuijten , T. Ovsiannikova , C. Palomares , T. Patzak , E. Pennacchio , L. Periale , H. Pessard , B. Popov , M. Ravonel , M. Rayner , C. Regenfus , C. Ristea , O. Ristea , A. Robert , A. Rubbia , K. Sakashita , F. Sanchez , R. Santorelli , E. Scantamburlo , F. Sergiampietri , D. Sgalaberna , M. Slupecki , F. J. P. Soler , D. L. Stanca , A. Tonazzo , W. H. Trzaska , R. Tsenov , G. Vankova-Kirilova , F. Vannucci , G. Vasseur , A. Verdugo , T. Viant , S. Wu , N. Yershov , L. Zambelli , M. Zito

Initial Results for Electron-Neutrino Appearance in MINOS

MINOS is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to make precision measurements of the neutrino mixing parameters associated with the atmospheric neutrino mass splitting. Using a neutrino beam from the Main Injector (NuMI)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-15 Mayly C. Sanchez

Prospect of a very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment: HIPA to Beijing

We discuss the prospects of a very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment from HIPA to Beijing. The current understanding of neutrino oscillations, both theoretically and experimentally, are summarized. The figure of merits for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-17 Hesheng Chen , Linkai Ding , Jingtang He , Haohuai Kuang , Yusheng Lu , Yuqian Ma , Lianyou Shan , Changquan Shen , Yifang Wang , Changgen Yang , Xinmin Zhang , Qingqi Zhu , Chengrui Qing , Zhaohua Xiong , Jin Min Yang , Zhaoxi Zhang , Jiaer Chen , Yanlin Ye , S. C. Lee , H. T. Wong , Kerry Whisnant , Bing-Lin Young

Sensitivity study of Protvino to ORCA (P2O) experiment: Effect of antineutrino run, background and systematics

There is a proposal to send a neutrino beam from the Protvino accelerator complex located in Russia to the detector facility called `Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss' (ORCA) in the Mediterranean sea to study neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sandhya Choubey , Monojit Ghosh , Dipyaman Pramanik

Off-shell OPERA neutrinos

In the OPERA experiment, superluminal propagation of neutrinos can occur if one of the neutrino masses is extremely small. However the effect only has appreciable amplitude at energies of order this mass and thus has negligible overlap with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-20 Tim R. Morris

Future $\nu_\tau$ Oscillation Experiments and Present Data

Our goal in this paper is to examine the discovery potential of laboratory experiments searching for the oscillation $\nu_\mu(\nu_e) \rightarrow \nu_\tau$, in the light of recent data on solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, which we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. J Gomez-Cadenas , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia

The ANTARES Neutrino Telescope: status and first results

Completed in May 2008, the ANTARES neutrino telescope is located in the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km off the coast of Toulon, at a depth of about 2500 m. Consisting of 12 detector lines housing nearly 900 optical modules, the ANTARES telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Anthony M Brown

Long term monitoring of the optical background in the Capo Passero deep-sea site with the NEMO tower prototype

The NEMO Phase-2 tower is the first detector which was operated underwater for more than one year at the "record" depth of 3500 m. It was designed and built within the framework of the NEMO (NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory) project. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-01 S. Adrián-Martínez , S. Aiello , F. Ameli , M. Anghinolfi , M. Ardid , G. Barbarino , E. Barbarito , F. C. T. Barbato , N. Beverini , S. Biagi , A. Biagioni , B. Bouhadef , C. Bozza , G. Cacopardo , M. Calamai , C. Calí , D. Calvo , A. Capone , F. Caruso , A. Ceres , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Cocimano , R. Coniglione , M. Costa , G. Cuttone , C. D'Amato , A. D'Amico , G. De Bonis , V. De Luca , N. Deniskina , G. De Rosa , F. di Capua , C. Distefano , A. Enzenhöfer , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , V. Flaminio , L. A. Fusco , F. Garufi , V. Giordano , A. Gmerk , R. Grasso , G. Grella , C. Hugon , M. Imbesi , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , G. Larosa , D. Lattuada , K. P. Leismüller , E. Leonora , P. Litrico , C. D. Llorens Alvarez , A. Lonardo , F. Longhitano , D. Lo Presti , E. Maccioni , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , A. Martini , R. Masullo , P. Migliozzi , E. Migneco , A. Miraglia , C. M. Mollo , M. Mongelli , M. Morganti , P. Musico , M. Musumeci , C. A. Nicolau , A. Orlando , A. Orzelli , R. Papaleo , C. Pellegrino , M. G. Pellegriti , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , C. Pugliatti , S. Pulvirenti , F. Raffaelli , N. Randazzo , D. Real , G. Riccobene , A. Rovelli , M. Saldaña , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , V. Sciacca , I. Sgura , F. Simeone , V. Sipala , F. Speziale , A. Spitaleri , M. Spurio , S. M. Stellacci , M. Taiuti , G. Terreni , L. Trasatti , A. Trovato , C. Ventura , P. Vicini , S. Viola , D. Vivolo

Atmospheric $\nu$ and Long Baseline $\nu$ experiments II

A short introduction summarizes the experimental high energy field of neutrino oscillations and the oscillation notations. Then the results obtained by experiments on atmospheric neutrino oscillations are summarized and discussed. At the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-04 Giorgio Giacomelli

Measurement of Neutral Current Coherent $\pi^0$ Production In The NOvA Near Detector

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam. It consists of two finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad off-axis in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-03 Hongyue Duyang

Comments on the recent result of the "Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam"

The recent result by the OPERA experiment, confirming a trend already present in a previous result by MINOS, raises the question of a possible strong violation of standard relativity. In particular, the particles of the standard model would…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA

KM3NeT/ORCA is an underwater neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. Its primary scientific goal is to measure the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters and to determine the neutrino mass ordering. ORCA can…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-23 S. Aiello , A. Albert , A. R. Alhebsi , M. Alshamsi , S. Alves Garre , A. Ambrosone , F. Ameli , M. Andre , L. Aphecetche , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , J. Aublin , F. Badaracco , L. Bailly-Salins , Z. Bardačová , B. Baret , A. Bariego-Quintana , Y. Becherini , M. Bendahman , F. Benfenati , M. Benhassi , M. Bennani , D. M. Benoit , E. Berbee , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , M. Boettcher , D. Bonanno , A. B. Bouasla , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. Bouwhuis , C. Bozza , R. M. Bozza , H. Brânzăş , F. Bretaudeau , M. Breuhaus , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , R. Bruno , E. Buis , R. Buompane , J. Busto , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , A. Capone , F. Carenini , V. Carretero , T. Cartraud , P. Castaldi , V. Cecchini , S. Celli , L. Cerisy , M. Chabab , A. Chen , S. Cherubini , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Clark , R. Cocimano , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , A. Condorelli , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , G. Cuttone , R. Dallier , A. De Benedittis , B. De Martino , G. De Wasseige , V. Decoene , I. Del Rosso , L. S. Di Mauro , I. Di Palma , A. F. Díaz , D. Diego-Tortosa , C. Distefano , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , E. Drakopoulou , D. Drouhin , J. -G. Ducoin , R. Dvornický , T. Eberl , E. Eckerová , A. Eddymaoui , T. van Eeden , M. Eff , D. van Eijk , I. El Bojaddaini , S. El Hedri , V. Ellajosyula , A. Enzenhöfer , G. Ferrara , M. D. Filipović , F. Filippini , D. Franciotti , L. A. Fusco , S. Gagliardini , T. Gal , J. García Méndez , A. Garcia Soto , C. Gatius Oliver , N. Geißelbrecht , E. Genton , H. Ghaddari , L. Gialanella , B. K. Gibson , E. Giorgio , I. Goos , P. Goswami , S. R. Gozzini , R. Gracia , C. Guidi , B. Guillon , M. Gutiérrez , C. Haack , H. van Haren , A. Heijboer , L. Hennig , J. J. Hernández-Rey , W. Idrissi Ibnsalih , G. Illuminati , D. Joly , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , B. J. Jung , G. Kistauri , C. Kopper , A. Kouchner , Y. Y. Kovalev , V. Kueviakoe , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Kvatadze , M. Labalme , R. Lahmann , M. Lamoureux , G. Larosa , C. Lastoria , J. Lazar , A. Lazo , S. Le Stum , G. Lehaut , V. Lemaître , E. Leonora , N. Lessing , G. Levi , M. Lindsey Clark , F. Longhitano , F. Magnani , J. Majumdar , L. Malerba , F. Mamedov , A. Manfreda , M. Marconi , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , C. Markou , L. Martin , M. Mastrodicasa , S. Mastroianni , J. Mauro , G. Miele , P. Migliozzi , E. Migneco , M. L. Mitsou , C. M. Mollo , L. Morales-Gallegos , A. Moussa , I. Mozun Mateo , R. Muller , M. R. Musone , M. Musumeci , S. Navas , A. Nayerhoda , C. A. Nicolau , B. Nkosi , B. Ó Fearraigh , V. Oliviero , A. Orlando , E. Oukacha , D. Paesani , J. Palacios González , G. Papalashvili , V. Parisi , E. J. Pastor Gómez , C. Pastore , A. M. Păun , G. E. Păvălaş , S. Peña Martínez , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Pestel , R. Pestes , P. Piattelli , A. Plavin , C. Poiré , V. Popa , T. Pradier , J. Prado , S. Pulvirenti , C. A. Quiroz-Rangel , N. Randazzo , S. Razzaque , I. C. Rea , D. Real , G. Riccobene , A. Romanov , E. Ros , A. Šaina , F. Salesa Greus , D. F. E. Samtleben , A. Sánchez Losa , S. Sanfilippo , M. Sanguineti , D. Santonocito , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , J. Schumann , H. M. Schutte , J. Seneca , N. Sennan , P. Sevle , I. Sgura , R. Shanidze , A. Sharma , Y. Shitov , F. Šimkovic , A. Simonelli , A. Sinopoulou , B. Spisso , M. Spurio , D. Stavropoulos , I. Štekl , M. Taiuti , G. Takadze , Y. Tayalati , H. Thiersen , S. Thoudam , I. Tosta e Melo , B. Trocmé , V. Tsourapis , A. Tudorache , E. Tzamariudaki , A. Ukleja , A. Vacheret , V. Valsecchi , V. Van Elewyck , G. Vannoye , G. Vasileiadis , F. Vazquez de Sola , A. Veutro , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , A. van Vliet , E. de Wolf , I. Lhenry-Yvon , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , D. Zito , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga , N. Zywucka

Automatic track recognition for large-angle minimum ionizing particles in nuclear emulsions

We previously developed an automatic track scanning system which enables the detection of large-angle nuclear fragments in the nuclear emulsion films of the OPERA experiment. As a next step, we have investigated this system's track…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Fukuda , S. Fukunaga , H. Ishida , T. Matsumoto , T. Matsuo , S. Mikado , S. Nishimura , S. Ogawa , H. Shibuya , J. Sudou , A. Ariga , S. Tufanli

Letter of Intent to build an Off-axis Detector to study numu to nue oscillations with the NuMI Neutrino Beam

The NuMI neutrino beam line and the MINOS experiment represent a major investment of US High Energy Physics in the area of neutrino physics. The forthcoming results could decisively establish neutrino oscillations as the underlying physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Ayres et. al

The LBNO long-baseline oscillation sensitivities with two conventional neutrino beams at different baselines

The proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Observatory (LBNO) initially consists of $\sim 20$ kton liquid double phase TPC complemented by a magnetised iron calorimeter, to be installed at the Pyh\"asalmi mine, at a distance of 2300 km from CERN.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-03 LBNO Collaboration , S. K. Agarwalla , L. Agostino , M. Aittola , A. Alekou , B. Andrieu , F. Antoniou , R. Asfandiyarov , D. Autiero , O. Bésida , A. Balik , P. Ballett , I. Bandac , D. Banerjee , W. Bartmann , F. Bay , B. Biskup , A. M. Blebea-Apostu , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , S. Bolognesi , E. Borriello , I. Brancus , A. Bravar , M. Buizza-Avanzini , D. Caiulo , M. Calin , M. Calviani , M. Campanelli , C. Cantini , G. Cata-Danil , S. Chakraborty , N. Charitonidis , L. Chaussard , D. Chesneanu , F. Chipesiu , P. Crivelli , J. Dawson , I. De Bonis , Y. Declais , P. Del Amo Sanchez , A. Delbart , S. Di Luise , D. Duchesneau , J. Dumarchez , I. Efthymiopoulos , A. Eliseev , S. Emery , T. Enqvist , K. Enqvist , L. Epprecht , A. N. Erykalov , T. Esanu , D. Franco , M. Friend , V. Galymov , G. Gavrilov , A. Gendotti , C. Giganti , S. Gilardoni , B. Goddard , C. M. Gomoiu , Y. A. Gornushkin , P. Gorodetzky , A. Haesler , T. Hasegawa , S. Horikawa , K. Huitu , A. Izmaylov , A. Jipa , K. Kainulainen , Y. Karadzhov , M. Khabibullin , A. Khotjantsev , A. N. Kopylov , A. Korzenev , S. Kosyanenko , D. Kryn , Y. Kudenko , P. Kuusiniemi , I. Lazanu , C. Lazaridis , J. -M. Levy , K. Loo , J. Maalampi , R. M. Margineanu , J. Marteau , C. Martin-Mari , V. Matveev , E. Mazzucato , A. Mefodiev , O. Mineev , A. Mirizzi , B. Mitrica , S. Murphy , T. Nakadaira , S. Narita , D. A. Nesterenko , K. Nguyen , K. Nikolics , E. Noah , Yu. Novikov , A. Oprima , J. Osborne , T. Ovsyannikova , Y. Papaphilippou , S. Pascoli , T. Patzak , M. Pectu , E. Pennacchio , L. Periale , H. Pessard , B. Popov , M. Ravonel , M. Rayner , F. Resnati , O. Ristea , A. Robert , A. Rubbia , K. Rummukainen , A. Saftoiu , K. Sakashita , F. Sanchez-Galan , J. Sarkamo , N. Saviano , E. Scantamburlo , F. Sergiampietri , D. Sgalaberna , E. Shaposhnikova , M. Slupecki , D. Smargianaki , D. Stanca , R. Steerenberg , A. R. Sterian , P. Sterian , S. Stoica , C. Strabel , J. Suhonen , V. Suvorov , G. Toma , A. Tonazzo , W. H. Trzaska , R. Tsenov , K. Tuominen , M. Valram , G. Vankova-Kirilova , F. Vannucci , G. Vasseur , F. Velotti , P. Velten , V. Venturi , T. Viant , S. Vihonen , H. Vincke , A. Vorobyev , A. Weber , S. Wu , N. Yershov , L. Zambelli , M. Zito

First Results of $\nu_e$ Appearance Analysis and Electron Neutrino Identification at NOvA

NOvA is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment that is optimized for $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ measurements. It uses the upgraded NuMI beam from Fermilab and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-05 Jianming Bian

Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations with very large volume neutrino telescopes

Neutrino oscillations have been probed during the last few decades using multiple neutrino sources and experimental set-ups. In the recent years, very large volume neutrino telescopes have started contributing to the field. First ANTARES…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-01-22 J. P. Yañez , A. Kouchner

Neutrino Oscillation Experiments for Precise Measurements of Oscillation Parameters and Search for numu->nue Appearance and CP Violation

The possibility of making a low cost, very intense high energy proton source at the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) along with the forthcoming new large underground detectors at either the National Underground Science…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Beavis

NESSiE: The Experimental Sterile Neutrino Search in Short-Base-Line at CERN

Several different experimental results are indicating the existence of anomalies in the neutrino sector. Models beyond the standard model have been developed to explain these results and involve one or more additional neutrinos that do not…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-29 Umut Kose