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Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background Search at Super-Kamiokande

A new search for the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) flux has been conducted at Super-Kamiokande (SK), with a $22.5\times2970$-kton$\cdot$day exposure from its fourth operational phase IV. The new analysis improves on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Kamiokande Collaboration , K. Abe , C. Bronner , Y. Hayato , K. Hiraide , M. Ikeda , S. Imaizumi , J. Kameda , Y. Kanemura , Y. Kataoka , S. Miki , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , Y. Nagao , M. Nakahata , S. Nakayama , T. Okada , K. Okamoto , A. Orii , G. Pronost , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Sonoda , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , Y. Takemoto , A. Takenaka , H. Tanaka , S. Watanabe , T. Yano , S. Han , T. Kajita , K. Okumura , T. Tashiro , J. Xia , G. D. Megias , D. Bravo-Bergu , L. Labarga , Ll. Marti , B. Zaldivar , B. W. Pointon , F. d. M. Blaszczyk , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , J. L. Stone , L. Wan , T. Wester , J. Bian , N. J. Griskevich , W. R. Kropp , S. Locke , S. Mine , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , V. Takhistov , J. Hill , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , R. G. Park , B. Bodur , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , S. Cao , L. Bernard , A. Coffani , O. Drapier , S. El Hedri , A. Giampaolo , M. Gonin , Th. A. Mueller , P. Paganini , B. Quilain , T. Ishizuka , T. Nakamura , J. S. Jang , J. G. Learned , L. H. V. Anthony , D. Martin , M. Scott , A. A. Sztuc , Y. Uchida , V. Berardi , M. G. Catanesi , E. Radicioni , N. F. Calabria , L. N. Machado , G. De Rosa , G. Collazuol , F. Iacob , M. Lamoureux , M. Mattiazzi , N. Ospina , L. Ludovici , Y. Maekawa , Y. Nishimura , M. Friend , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Kobayashi , M. Jakkapu , T. Matsubara , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , Y. Kotsar , Y. Nakano , H. Ozaki , T. Shiozawa , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , S. Yamamoto , A. Ali , Y. Ashida , J. Feng , S. Hirota , T. Kikawa , M. Mori , T. Nakaya , R. A. Wendell , K. Yasutome , P. Fernandez , N. McCauley , P. Mehta , K. M. Tsui , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , H. Menjo , T. Niwa , K. Sato , M. Tsukada , J. Lagoda , S. M. Lakshmi , P. Mijakowski , J. Zalipska , J. Jiang , C. K. Jung , C. Vilela , M. J. Wilking , C. Yanagisawa , K. Hagiwara , M. Harada , T. Horai , H. Ishino , S. Ito , H. Kitagawa , Y. Koshio , W. Ma , N. Piplani , S. Sakai , G. Barr , D. Barrow , L. Cook , A. Goldsack , S. Samani , D. Wark , F. Nova , T. Boschi , F. Di Lodovico , J. Gao , J. Migenda , M. Taani , S. Zsoldos , J. Y. Yang , S. J. Jenkins , M. Malek , J. M. McElwee , O. Stone , M. D. Thiesse , L. F. Thompson , H. Okazawa , S. B. Kim , J. W. Seo , I. Yu , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , K. Iwamoto , K. Nakagiri , Y. Nakajima , N. Ogawa , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , M. R. Vagins , M. Kuze , S. Izumiyama , T. Yoshida , M. Inomoto , M. Ishitsuka , H. Ito , T. Kinoshita , R. Matsumoto , K. Ohta , M. Shinoki , T. Suganuma , A. K. Ichikawa , K. Nakamura , J. F. Martin , H. A. Tanaka , T. Towstego , R. Akutsu , V. Gousy-Leblanc , M. Hartz , A. Konaka , P. de Perio , N. W. Prouse , S. Chen , B. D. Xu , Y. Zhang , M. Posiadala-Zezula , D. Hadley , M. O'Flaherty , B. Richards , B. Jamieson , J. Walker , A. Minamino , K. Okamoto , G. Pintaudi , S. Sano , R. Sasaki

Advanced Scintillator Detector Concept (ASDC): A Concept Paper on the Physics Potential of Water-Based Liquid Scintillator

The recent development of Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS), 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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-28 J. R. Alonso , N. Barros , M. Bergevin , A. Bernstein , L. Bignell , E. Blucher , F. Calaprice , J. M. Conrad , F. B. Descamps , M. V. Diwan , D. A. Dwyer , S. T. Dye , A. Elagin , P. Feng , C. Grant , S. Grullon , S. Hans , D. E. Jaffe , S. H. Kettell , J. R. Klein , K. Lande , J. G. Learned , K. B. Luk , J. Maricic , P. Marleau , A. Mastbaum , W. F. McDonough , L. Oberauer , G. D. Orebi Gann , R. Rosero , S. D. Rountree , M. C. Sanchez , M. H. Shaevitz , T. M. Shokair , M. B. Smy , A. Stahl , M. Strait , R. Svoboda , N. Tolich , M. R. Vagins , K. A. van Bibber , B. Viren , R. B. Vogelaar , M. J. Wetstein , L. Winslow , B. Wonsak , E. T. Worcester , M. Wurm , M. Yeh , C. Zhang

Light Sensor Candidates for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

We report on the characterization of candidate light sensors for use in the next-generation Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope project called Cherenkov Telescope Array, a major astro-particle physics project of about 100 telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. L. Knoetig , R. Mirzoyan , M. Kurz , J. Hose , E. Lorenz , T. Schweizer , M. Teshima , P. Buzhan , E. Popova , J. Bolmont , J. -P. Tavernet , P. Vincent , M. Shayduk

Enhancing Neutrino Reconstruction in Water-Cherenkov Air Shower Arrays Using Multi-Photosensors

In this article, the potential of water Cherenkov detectors equipped with multi-PMT modules for background-free upward-going neutrino detection and improved direction reconstruction is demonstrated. By analyzing signal time traces with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-08 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Colalillo , R. Conceição , B. S. González , V. M. Grieco , F. Guarino , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé , M. Waqas

Instrumenting a Lake as a Wide-Field Gamma-ray Detector

Ground-level particle detection has recently emerged as an extremely powerful approach to TeV-PeV gamma-ray astronomy. The most successful observatories of this type, HAWC and LHAASO, utilise water-Cherenkov based detector units, housed in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Hazal Goksu , Werner Hofmann , Felix Werner , Fabian Haist , Jim Hinton

An Overview of the KamLAND 1-kiloton Liquid Scintillator

KamLAND is a massive liquid-scintillator-based neutrino detector studying low energy neutrino oscillation. The experiment has discovered a large deficit of the reactor neutrino flux with baseline of 180km in the year 2002. This result is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Suekane , T. Iwamoto , H. Ogawa , O. Tajima , H. Watanabe

Performance study of the Highly Granular Neutron Detector prototype in the BM@N experiment

The time-of-flight Highly Granular Neutron Detector (HGND) with a multilayer longitudinal structure of interleaved absorber and scintillator plates, high transverse granularity and a time resolution of about 150 ps is currently under…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 A. Zubankov , S. Afanasiev , M. Golubeva , F. Guber , A. Ivashkin , N. Karpushkin , O. Kutinova , D. Lyapin , A. Makhnev , S. Morozov , P. Parfenov , I. Pshenichnov , D. Sakulin , S. Savenkov , A. Shabanov , E. Sukhov , A. Svetlichnyi , G. Taer , V. Ustinov

The Lake Baikal Experiment: Selected Results

We review the present status of the Baikal Neutrino Project. The construction and performance of the large deep underwater Cherenkov detector NT-200 with 192 PMTs, which is currently taking data in Lake Baikal, are described. Some results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Baikal Collaboration , presented by Zh. Dzhilkibaev

Axion emission and detection from a Galactic supernova

A Galactic supernova (SN) axion signal would be detected in a future neutrino Mton-class water Cherenkov detector, such as the proposed Hyper-Kamiokande in Japan. The main detection channel for axions is absorption on the oxygen nuclei in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-23 Pierluca Carenza , Giampaolo Co' , Tobias Fischer , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi , Thomas Rauscher

Gaseous Detector with sub keV Threshold to Study Neutrino Scattering at Low Recoil Energies

Gaseous detector with a sub keV electron equivalent threshold is a very perspective tool for the precision measurement of the neutrino magnetic moment and to observe coherent scattering of neutrinos on nuclei. The progress in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-18 A. V. Kopylov , I. V. Orekhov , V. V. Petukhov , A. E. Solomatin

Gadolinium Iron Garnet as a Solid State Material for an Electron Electric Dipole Moment Search

The possibility of a solid state electron electric dipole moment (EDM) experiment based on Gadolinium Iron Garnet (GdIG) is investigated. GdIG appears to exhibit superparamagnetism and this effect can be used to enhance the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve K. Lamoreaux

MEMPHYS:A large scale water Cerenkov detector at Fr\'ejus

A water \v{C}erenkov detector project, of megaton scale, to be installed in the Fr\'ejus underground site and dedicated to nucleon decay, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well as neutrinos from a super-beam…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 A. de Bellefon , J. Bouchez , J. Busto , J. -E. Campagne , C. Cavata , J. Dolbeau , J. Dumarchez , P. Gorodetzky , S. Katsanevas , M. Mezzetto , L. Mosca , T. Patzak , P. Salin , A. Tonazzo , C. Volpe

Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector

Procedures and results on hardware level detector calibration in Super-Kamiokande (SK) are presented in this paper. In particular, we report improvements made in our calibration methods for the experimental phase IV in which new readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-23 K. Abe , Y. Hayato , T. Iida , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kishimoto , Y. Koshio , Ll. Marti , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakano , S. Nakayama , Y. Obayashi , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , Y. Takenaga , H. Tanaka , T. Tomura , K. Ueno , R. A. Wendell , T. Yokozawa , T. J. Irvine , H. Kaji , T. Kajita , K. Kaneyuki , K. P. Lee , Y. Nishimura , K. Okumura , T. McLachlan , L. Labarga , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , S. Berkman , H. A. Tanaka , S. Tobayama , M. Goldhaber , K. Bays , G. Carminati , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , J. S. Jang , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , N. Hong , T. Akiri , J. B. Albert , A. Himmel , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , T. Ishizuka , S. Tasaka , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , K. Nishikawa , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , K. Huang , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda , T. Kikawa , H. Kubo , A. Minamino , A. Murakami , T. Nakaya , M. Otani , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , Y. Fukuda , K. Choi , Y. Itow , G. Mitsuka , M. Miyake , P. Mijakowski , R. Tacik , J. Hignight , J. Imber , C. K. Jung , I. Taylor , C. Yanagisawa , Y. Idehara , H. Ishino , A. Kibayashi , T. Mori , M. Sakuda , R. Yamaguchi , T. Yano , Y. Kuno , S. B. Kim , B. S. Yang , H. Okazawa , Y. Choi , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , Y. Totsuka , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , M. R. Vagins , J. F. Martin , P. de Perio , A. Konaka , M. J. Wilking , S. Chen , Y. Heng , H. Sui , Z. Yang , H. Zhang , Y. Zhenwei , K. Connolly , M. Dziomba , R. J. Wilkes

Characterization of the optical model of the T2K 3D segmented plastic scintillator detector

The magnetised near detector (ND280) of the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment has been recently upgraded aiming to satisfy the requirement of reducing the systematic uncertainty from measuring the neutrinonucleus interaction…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-01 S. Abe , I. Alekseev , T. Arai , T. Arihara , S. Arimoto , N. Babu , V. Baranov , L. Bartoszek , L. Berns , S. Bhattacharjee , A. Blondel , A. V. Boikov , M. Buizza-Avanzini , J. Capó , J. Cayo , J. Chakrani , P. S. Chong , A. Chvirova , M. Danilov , C. Davis , Yu. I. Davydov , A. Dergacheva , N. Dokania , D. Douqa , T. A. Doyle , O. Drapier , A. Eguchi , J. Elias , D. Fedorova , S. Fedotov , D. Ferlewicz , Y. Fuji , Y. Furui , A. Gendotti , A. Germer , L. Giannessi , C. Giganti , V. Glagolev , J. Hu , K. Iwamoto , M. Jakkapu , C. Jesús-Valls , J. Y. Ji , C. K. Jung , H. Kakuno , S. P. Kasetti , M. Kawaue , M. Khabibullin , A. Khotjantsev , T. Kikawa , H. Kikutani , H. Kobayashi , T. Kobayashi , S. Kodama , M. Kolupanova , A. Korzenev , U. Kose , Y. Kudenko , S. Kuribayashi , T. Kutter , M. Lachat , K. Lachner , D. Last , N. Latham , D. Leon Silverio , B. Li , W. Li , Z. Li , C. Lin , L. S. Lin , S. Lin , T. Lux , K. Mahtani , L. Maret , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , T. Matsubara , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , J. McKean , A. Mefodiev , E. Miller , O. Mineev , A. L. Moreno , A. Muñoz , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakagiri , V. Nguyen , L. Nicola , E. Noah , T. Nosek , W. Okinaga , L. Osu , V. Paolone , S. Parsa , R. Pellegrino , M. A. Ramirez , M. Reh , C. Ricco , A. Rubbia , K. Sakashita , N. Sallin , F. Sanchez , T. Schefke , C. M. Schloesser , D. Sgalaberna , A. Shvartsman , N. Skrobova , A. J. Speers , I. A. Suslov , S. Suvorov , D. Svirida , S. Tairafune , H. Tanigawa , A. Teklu , V. V. Tereshchenko , M. Tzanov , I. I. Vasilyev , H. T. Wallace , N. Whitney , K. Wood , Y. -h. Xu , G. Yang , N. Yershov , M. Yokoyama , Y. Yoshimoto , X. Zhao , H. Zheng , T. Zhu , P. Zilberman , E. D. Zimmerman

A novel water-Cherenkov detector design with retro-reflectors to produce antipodal rings

Since Kamiokande, the basic design of water-Cherenkov detectors has not changed: the walls of a water tank are lined with photodetectors that capture Cherenkov photons produced by relativistic particles. However, with this design the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-01 Lukas Berns

Diffuse neutrino flux measurements with the Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope

Baikal-GVD is a next generation, kilometer-scale neutrino telescope currently under construction in Lake Baikal. GVD consists of multi-megaton subarrays (clusters) and is designed for the detection of astrophysical neutrino fluxes at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 V. M. Aynutdinov , V. A. Allakhverdyan , A. D. Avrorin , A. V. Avrorin , Z. Bardačová , I. A. Belolaptikov , E. A. Bondarev , I. V. Borina , N. M. Budnev , V. A. Chadymov , A. S. Chepurnov , V. Y. Dik , G. V. Domogatsky , A. A. Doroshenko , R. Dvornický , A. N. Dyachok , Zh. -A. M. Dzhilkibaev , E. Eckerová , T. V. Elzhov , L. Fajt , V. N. Fomin , A. R. Gafarov , K. V. Golubkov , N. S. Gorshkov , T. I. Gress , K. G. Kebkal , I. V. Kharuk , E. V. Khramov , M. M. Kolbin , S. O. Koligaev , K. V. Konischev , A. V. Korobchenko , A. P. Koshechkin , V. A. Kozhin , M. V. Kruglov , V. F. Kulepov , Y. E. Lemeshev , M. B. Milenin , R. R. Mirgazov , D. V. Naumov , A. S. Nikolaev , D. P. Petukhov , E. N. Pliskovsky , M. I. Rozanov , E. V. Ryabov , G. B. Safronov , D. Seitova , B. A. Shaybonov , M. D. Shelepov , S. D. Shilkin , E. V. Shirokov , F. Šimkovic , A. E. Sirenko , A. V. Skurikhin , A. G. Solovjev , M. N. Sorokovikov , I. Štekl , A. P. Stromakov , O. V. Suvorova , V. A. Tabolenko , B. B. Ulzutuev , Y. V. Yablokova , D. N. Zaborov , S. I. Zavyalov , D. Y. Zvezdov , N. A. Kosogorov , Y. Y. Kovalev , G. V. Lipunova , A. V. Plavin , D. V. Semikoz , S. V. Troitsky

Development of a Gd Loaded Liquid Scintillator for Electron Anti-Neutrino Spectroscopy

We report on the development and deployment of 11.3 tons of 0.1% Gd loaded liquid scintillator used in the Palo Verde reactor neutrino oscillation experiment. We discuss the chemical composition, properties, and stability of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Andreas G. Piepke , S. Wayne Moser , Vladimir M. Novikov

A Large Scale Double Beta and Dark Matter Experiment: GENIUS

The recent results from the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment have demonstrated the large potential of double beta decay to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. To increase by a major step the present sensitivity for double beta…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Hellmig , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) Water Cherenkov Detector (WCD) Conceptual Design Report (CDR)

Conceptual Design Report developed for the Water Cherenkov Detector (WCD) option for the far detector of the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The LBNE Collaboration

Cherenkov Detectors Fast Simulation Using Neural Networks

We propose a way to simulate Cherenkov detector response using a generative adversarial neural network to bypass low-level details. This network is trained to reproduce high level features of the simulated detector events based on input…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-03-29 Denis Derkach , Nikita Kazeev , Fedor Ratnikov , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Alexandra Volokhova