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We propose the RES-NOVA project which will hunt neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae (SN) via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) using an array of archaeological lead (Pb) based cryogenic detectors. The high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-03 Luca Pattavina , Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini , Irene Tamborra

A large-volume liquid scintillator can be used as a tracking detector to measure high-energy neutrino events, like atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino beams. The lepton flavor recognition is almost absolute above 1 GeV. The energy resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 Juha Peltoniemi

For the next galactic supernova, operational neutrino telescopes will measure the neutrino flux several hours before their optical counterparts. Existing detectors, relying mostly on charged current interactions, are mostly sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Bhavesh Chauhan , Basudeb Dasgupta , Vivek Datar

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has opened a new window into the high-energy Universe, providing measurements of neutrinos over a broad energy range. This contribution presents recent results, including a follow-up on the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-21 Thijs Juan van Eeden

The production and analysis of distributed sources of 24Na and 222Rn in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) are described. These unique sources provided accurate calibrations of the response to neutrons, produced through…

SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment designed to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region of ${7.2 < \eta < 8.4}$. The experiment is located 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-08 LHC Collaboration

The NEMO 3 experiment is devoted to the search for neutrinoless double beta decay, as well as for accurate measurement of two-neutrino double beta decay. The detector has been taking data in the LSM laboratory since 2003 and the latest NEMO…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-11 Ladislav Vala

Scintillator doped with a high neutron-capture cross-section material can be used to detect neutrons via their resulting gamma rays. Examples of such detectors using liquid scintillator have been successfully used in high-energy physics…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-01 D. M. Poehlmann , D. Barker , H. Chagani , P. Cushman , G. Heuermann , A. Medved , H. E. Rogers , R. Schmitz

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a multi-purpose neutrino experiment, will use 20 kt liquid scintillator (LS). To achieve the physics goal of determining the neutrino mass ordering, 3$\%$ energy resolution at 1 MeV is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-17 Wenqi Yan , Tao Hu , Li Zhou , Jun Cao , Xiao Cai , Jian Fang , Lijun Sun , Boxiang Yu , Xilei Sun , Zeyuan Yu , Yayun Ding , Mengchao Liu , Xiaoyan Ma , Xiaohui Qian , Wanjin Liu , Yuguang Xie

In the past few decades, numerous searches have been made for the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) process, aiming to establish whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles (Majorana neutrinos), but no 0$\nu\beta\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-06-29 Jie Zhao , Liang-Jian Wen , Yi-Fang Wang , Jun Cao

A future galactic SN can be located several hours before the optical explosion through the MeV-neutrino burst, exploiting the directionality of $\nu$-$e$-scattering in a water Cherenkov detector such as Super-Kamiokande. We study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Tomas , D. Semikoz , G. G. Raffelt , M. Kachelriess , A. S. Dighe

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory has recently finished its third and final phase, and has accumulated over 1082 days of neutrino data, spanning the energy range from approximately 5-20 MeV. Almost all the observed neutrinos are due to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Chris Howard

An array of 3He-filled proportional counters will be used in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory to measure the neutral-current interaction of neutrinos and deuterium. We describe the backgrounds to this detection method.

Neutrino oscillations in the Earth matter may introduce peculiar modulations in the supernova (SN) neutrino spectra. The detection of this effect has been proposed as diagnostic tool for the neutrino mass hierarchy at "large" 1-3 leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Enrico Borriello , Sovan Chakraborty , Alessandro Mirizzi , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Irene Tamborra

The measurement of the flux of beryllium neutrinos with the accuracy of about 10% and CNO neutrinos with the accuracy 30% will enable to find the flux of pp-neutrinos in the source with the accuracy better than 1% using the luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kopylov , I. Orekhov , V. Petukhov , A. Solomatin , M. Arnoldov

The SNO+ liquid scintillator experiment is under construction in the SNOLAB facility in Canada. The success of this experiment relies upon accurate characterization of the liquid scintillator, linear alkylbenzene (LAB). In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-16 H. M. O'Keeffe , E. O'Sullivan , M. C. Chen

Jinping Neutrino Experiment (Jinping) is proposed to significantly improve measurements on solar neutrinos and geoneutrinos in China Jinping Laboratory - a lab with a number of unparalleled features, thickest overburden, lowest reactor…

A method has been developed to load tellurium into liquid scintillator so as to permit searches for neutrinoless double beta decay with high sensitivity. The approach involves the synthesis of an oil-soluble tellurium compound from telluric…

We discuss here new, enabling technologies for future photon-based neutrino detectors. These technologies touch nearly every aspect of such detectors: new scintillating materials, new methods of loading isotopes, new photon sensors and…

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) uses 20k tons of liquid scintillator (LS)to detect neutrinos. The content of radioactive substances in the liquid scintillator will affect theexperimental results. JUNO will use counter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-09 Jiaxuan Ye , Jian Fang , Tao hu , Li Zhou , Wei Hu , Wanjin Liu , Yayun Ding , Mengchao Liu , Boxiang Yu , Xilei Sun , Lijun Sun , Yuguang Xie , Xiao Cai