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We continue examining statistical data assimilation (SDA), an inference methodology, to infer solutions to neutrino flavor evolution, for the first time using real - rather than simulated - data. The model represents neutrinos streaming…

We discuss the radar detection technique as a probe for high-energy cosmic neutrino induced particle cascades in a dense medium like ice. With the recent detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos by the IceCube neutrino observatory the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-30 Krijn D. de Vries , Kael Hanson , Thomas Meures , Aongus O'Murchadha

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) was a heavy water Cerenkov detector designed to solve the long-standing ``solar neutrino problem''; a discrepancy between the measured and predicted flux of electron-flavour solar neutrinos. SNO…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-06-01 Ryan Martin

This Letter of Intent (LoI) describes the outline and plan for the Neutrino Telescope Array (NTA) project. High-energy neutrinos provide unique and indisputable evidence for hadronic acceleration. Recently, IceCube has reported astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Makoto Sasaki , George Wei-Shu Hou

We report the status of the solar neutrino project called HELLAZ. In a high pressure and cooled TPC filled with helium, the detection of each ionisation electron of the track produced by the recoil electron from elastic scattering induced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Dolbeau

Ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos, with energies above 100 PeV, could be finally discovered in the near future. Measuring their flavor composition would reveal information about their production and propagation, but new techniques…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-01 Federico Testagrossa , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante

GRAND (the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection) is a proposed next-generation observatory of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gamma rays of cosmic origin, with energies exceeding about 100 PeV. GRAND is envisioned as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Kumiko Kotera

Low frequency imaging radio arrays such as MWA, LWA and LOFAR have been recently commissioned, and significantly more advanced and flexible arrays are planned for the near term. These powerful instruments offer new opportunities for direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 C. Lonsdale , L. Benkevitch , I. Cairns , M. Crowley , P. Erickson , M. Knapp , K. Kozarev , F. Lind , P. McCauley , J. Morgan , D. Oberoi

The SNO+ experiment is a large-scale, multipurpose neutrino experiment situated 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Canada. Successor to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the SNO+ detector has inherited much of the original infrastructure…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-11 Benjamin Tam

We report on the development of the seven station ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array neutrino detector systems in Antarctica. The primary goal of the ARIANNA project is to observe ultra-high energy (>100 PeV) cosmogenic neutrino signatures using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Stuart A. Kleinfelder

A sensitivity study of the search for heavy sterile neutrinos ($\nu_H$) in the MeV mass range using solar neutrino experiments is presented. $\nu_H$, with masses ranging from a few MeV up to around 15 MeV, can be produced in the Sun through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Yutao Zhu , Haoyang Fu , Wentai Luo , Shaomin Chen , Litao Yang , Zhicai Zhang

Recent observations of changes in radioactive decay rates associated with the annual variation of the Earth-Sun distance, with solar rotation, and particularly with solar storms, suggest that radioactive decay rates may be responding to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-14 Ephraim Fischbach , John T. Gruenwald

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is expected to become the by far largest and most sensitive observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. CTA will be capable of detecting gamma rays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , P. Cumani , T. Hassan , J. Hinton , A. Moralejo

The ANTARES collaboration aims to build a deep underwater Cherenkov neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea at 2500 m depth, about 40 km off-shore of La Seyne sur Mer, near Toulon. The collaboration was formed in 1996 and the experiment…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 I. Sokalski

A description of the current state of the project for the study of coherent elastic neutrino-atom scattering using a tritium source and liquid helium detector is given. The project was proposed in our paper in 2019 and its main goal is to…

We discuss the detection of redshifted line and continuum emission at radio wavelengths using a Square Kilometer Array (SKA), specifically from low-excitation rotational molecular line transitions of CO and HCN (molecular lines), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew W. Blain , C. L. Carilli , Jeremy Darling

To detect the tiny flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei or from interactions of highest energy cosmic rays with the microwave background photons needs target masses of the order of several hundred cubic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-22 Timo Karg , Rolf Nahnhauer

Weak gravitational lensing measurements are traditionally made at optical wavelengths where many highly resolved galaxy images are readily available. However, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) holds great promise for this type of measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Prina Patel , Ian Harrison , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Abdalla , David Bacon , Michael L. Brown , Ian Heywood , Matt Jarvis , Oleg Smirnov

Gamma-ray astronomy holds a great potential for Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology. The CTA is an inter- national initiative to build the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, which will represent a factor of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Ulisses Barres de Almeida