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Development of large mass detectors for low-energy neutrinos and dark matter may allow supernova detection via neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering. An elastic-scattering detector could observe a few, or more, events per ton for a galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. Horowitz , K. J. Coakley , D. N. McKinsey

The experimental searches for diffuse supernova neutrino background and proton decay in next-generation large liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors are competitive with and complementary to those in the water-Cherenkov detectors. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Jie Cheng , Yu-Feng Li , Liang-Jian Wen , Shun Zhou

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is designed to study neutrino mass hierarchy and measure three of the neutrino oscillation parameters with high precision using reactor antineutrinos. It is also able to study many other…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-26 Qin Liu , Miao He , Xuefeng Ding , Weidong Li , Haiping Peng

The NEMO experiment is investigating the neutrinoless double beta decay. The NEMO-3 detector is taking data in the Frejus Underground Laboratory. The goal of the SuperNEMO detector is to reach a sensitivity on the order of 10^26 year on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-06 Laurent Simard

The article describes the research program pursued by the TEXONO Collaboration towards an experiment to observe coherent scattering between neutrinos and the nucleus at the power reactor. The motivations of studying this process are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Henry T. Wong

A future large-volume liquid scintillator detector would provide a high-statistics measurement of terrestrial antineutrinos originating from $\beta$-decays of the uranium and thorium chains. In addition, the forward displacement of the…

Solar neutrinos interact within double-beta decay (\BB) detectors and contribute to backgrounds for \BB\ experiments. Background contributions due to charge-current solar neutrino interactions with \BB\ nuclei of $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-10-25 S. R. Elliott , H. Ejiri

The recent development of water-based liquid scintillator and the concurrent development of high-efficiency and high-precision-timing light sensors has opened up the possibility for a new kind of large-scale detector capable of a very broad…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabriel D. Orebi Gann

The detection of low energy neutrinos in a large scintillation detector may provide further important information on astrophysical processes as supernova physics, solar physics and elementary particle physics as well as geophysics. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-17 T. Marrodan Undagoitia , F. von Feilitzsch , M. Goeger-Neff , K. A. Hochmuth , L. Oberauer , W. Potzel , M. Wurm

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an experiment proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and probe the fundamental properties of neutrino oscillation. The JUNO central detector is a spherical liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-15 Xinying Li , Ziyan Deng , Liangjian Wen , Weidong Li , Zhengyun You , Chunxu Yu , Yumei Zhang , Tao Lin

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino-oscillation experiment designed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor antineutrinos,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Miao He

SND@LHC is a compact experiment that will detect high energy neutrinos produced by heavy flavour quarks at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region 7.2 $< \eta <$ 8.6. It is an hybrid system, comprising nuclear emulsions and electronic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-16 Francesco-Luigi Navarria

Neutrino geophysics, the study of the Earth's interior by measuring the fluxes of geologically produced neutrino at its surface, is a new interdisciplinary field of science, rapidly developing as a synergy between geology, geophysics and…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-10-22 Oleg Smirnov

Before massive stars heavier than $(8 \cdots 10)$ solar masses evolve to the phase of a gravitational core collapse, they will emit a huge number of MeV-energy neutrinos that are mainly produced in the thermal processes and nuclear weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Hui-Ling Li , Yu-Feng Li , Liang-Jian Wen , Shun Zhou

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO, also known as JUNO-TAO) is a satellite experiment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO). A ton-level liquid scintillator detector will be placed at about 30 m from a core of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-18 Ziming Li , Zhimin Wang , Jie Yang

We propose that neutrino-proton elastic scattering, $\nu + p \to \nu + p$, can be used for the detection of supernova neutrinos in scintillator detectors. Though the proton recoil kinetic energy spectrum is soft, with $T_p \simeq 2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 John F. Beacom , Will M. Farr , Petr Vogel

We study the prospects for measuring the low-energy components of the solar neutrino flux in future direct dark matter detection experiments. We show that for a depletion of $^{136}$Xe by a factor of 100 relative to its natural abundance,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Jayden L. Newstead , Louis E. Strigari , Rafael F. Lang

One of the most promising approaches for the next generation of neutrino experiments is the realization of large hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors made possible by recent innovations in photodetection technology and liquid…

The motivations for the magnetic moment solution to the solar neutrino problem are briefly reviewed and the expected values for a number of observables to be measured by the SNO experiment are calculated assuming three different solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Joao Pulido