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The MINERvA experiment is aimed at precisely measuring the cross-sections for various neutrino interaction channels. It is located at Fermilab in the underground cavern in front of MINOS near detector. MINERvA is a fine-grained scintillator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-09-14 Bari Osmanov

MiniBooNE, the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, will confirm or refute the existence of the neutrino oscillation signal seen by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) Experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 J. L. Raaf

In this paper we stress the idea that new, more precise neutrino cross-sections measurements at low energies will be necessary to improve the results of future big neutrino detectors, which will be dominated by the contribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Campanelli , S. Navas-Concha , A. Rubbia

A MINOS result seemed to hint a different anti-neutrino mass splitting and mixing angle with respect to the neutrino ones, offering a hint for a CPT violation in lepton sector. However more recent MINOS data reduced the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-21 Daniele Fargion , Daniele D'Armiento , Paolo Desiati , Paolo Paggi

The NO$\nu$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-03 R. Mina , E. Culbertson , M. J. Frank , R. C. Group , A. Norman , I. Oksuzian

The MicroBooNE neutrino experiment at Fermilab is constructing a liquid-argon time-projection chamber for the Booster Neutrino Beam to study neutrino oscillations and interactions with nucleons and nuclei, starting in 2014. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Tia Miceli , Vassili Papavassiliou , Stephen Pate , Katherine Woodruff

In Fermilab's neutrino facilities such as the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) and the upcoming Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF), a proton beam strikes high-power target, producing positively and negatively charged pions and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. Ganguly , K. Yonehara , R. Zwaska , P. Snopok , Y. Yu

We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. The MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuMI production target, at 110 mrad angle ($6.3^{\circ}$) with…

MONOLITH is a proposed massive magnetized tracking calorimeter at the Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy, optimized for the detection of atmospheric muon neutrinos. The main goal is to test the neutrino oscillation hypothesis through an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tommaso Tabarelli de Fatis

Measurements and calculations of the air activation at a high-energy proton accelerator are described. The quantity of radionuclides released outdoors depends on operation scenarios including details of the air exchange inside the facility.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 I. L. Rakhno , J. Hylen , P. Kasper , N. V. Mokhov , M. Quinn , S. I. Striganov , K. Vaziri

Of late, a number of instances of neutrino flux anomalies observed at short-baselines have given traction to the hypothesis of adding new neutrino flavours to our Standard Model set, albeit ones not associated with a partnered lepton.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-19 William G. S. Vinning , Andrew Blake

An experiment to search for light sterile neutrinos was conducted at a reactor with a thermal power of 2.8 GW located at the Hanbit nuclear power complex. The search was done with a detector consisting of a ton of Gd-loaded liquid…

This paper discusses recent results and near-term prospects of the long-baseline neutrino experiments MINOS, MINOS+, T2K and NOvA. The non-zero value of the third neutrino mixing angle {\theta}13 allows experimental analysis in a manner…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-02-17 Tsuyoshi Nakaya , Robert K. Plunkett

The current status of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) project at Fermilab is reviewed. While the installation of SBND is still in progress, ICARUS has taken its first neutrino data on beam: using both the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-31 M. Bonesini

The NOvA long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment is currently under construction and will use an upgraded NuMI neutrino source at Fermilab and a 14-kton detector at Ash River, Minnesota to explore the neutrino sector. NOvA uses a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-22 R. B. Patterson

DUNE is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment seeking to probe fundamental symmetries within the structure of the PMNS mixing matrix, and perform precision measurements its parameters including the neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-15 Anthony Wood

This talk presented the first muon anti-neutrino disappearance analysis using data from the T2K anti-neutrino data taken in 2014 and up to March 12, 2015. The preliminary measured oscillation parameters, using $2.3\times 10^{20}$ protons on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-30 Blair Jamieson

The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to a precision of 140 parts per billion, which is a factor of four improvement over the previous E821 measurement at Brookhaven. The experiment will…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-01 J. L. Holzbauer

MiniBooNE is a neutrino oscillation experiment now running at Fermilab. The experiment will search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations in order to make a conclusive statement about the yet-unconfirmed evidence for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrew Bazarko

A staged approach towards muon based facilities for Intensity and Energy Frontier science, building upon existing and proposed facilities at Fermilab, is presented. At each stage, a facility exploring new physics also provides an R&D…