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The missing mass spectroscopy of $\Xi^{-}$ hypernuclei with the $(K^{-},K^{+})$ reaction is planned to be performed at the J-PARC K1.8 beam line by using a new magnetic spectrometer, Strangeness $-2$ Spectrometer (S-2S). A $\v{C}$cerenkov…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-11 T. Gogami , N. Amano , S. Kanatsuki , T. Nagae , K. Takenaka

Massive underground detectors can be considered as sort of observatories for rare physics phenomena like astrophysical neutrino detection and nucleon decay searches. We briefly overview the past tracking calorimeters developed for nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rubbia

We highlight the capacity of current and forthcoming air shower arrays using water-Cherenkov stations to detect neutrino events spanning energies from $10\,$GeV to $100\,$TeV. This detection approach leverages individual stations equipped…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Conceição , P. J. Costa , B. S. González , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé

While neutrino physics enters precision era, several important unknowns remain. Atmospheric neutrinos allow to simultaneously test key oscillation parameters, with Super-Kamiokande experiment playing a central role. We discuss results from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-15 Volodymyr Takhistov

Supernovae are among the most magnificent events in the observable universe. They produce many of the chemical elements necessary for life to exist and their remnants---neutron stars and black holes---are interesting astrophysical objects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-06 Jost Migenda

This report is intended to describe first, the principal physics reasons for an ambitious experimental program in neutrino physics and proton decay based on construction of a series of massive water Cherenkov detectors located deep…

The KEK to Kamioka long-baseline neutrino experiment (K2K) has begun its investigation of neutrino oscillations suggested by atmospheric neutrino observations. Twenty-eight neutrino events have been detected in coincidence with the expected…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The K2K Collaboration , S. H. Ahn

In addition to the next generation of beam-based neutrino experiments and their associated detectors, a number of intense, low-energy neutrino production sources from decays at rest will be in operation. In this work, we explore the physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Roni Harnik , Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado

The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a next generation long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment utilising the Japan Proton Accelerator Research complex (J-PARC) high intensity proton synchrotron. After a brief introduction of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-11 N. C. Hastings

Since the Super-Kamiokande (SK) neutrino experiment in Japan added gadolinium sulphate octahydrate (Gd) to the pure water in its detector, it has entered a new era in supernova neutrino detection. The addition of Gd makes it possible to tag…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-02 L. Kneale

A high-density calorimeter, consisting of magnetized iron planes interleaved by RPCs, as tracking and timing devices, is a good candidate for a next generation experiment on atmospheric neutrinos. With 34 kt of mass and in four years of…

Light neutralinos could be copiously produced from the decays of mesons generated in cosmic-ray air showers. These neutralinos can be long-lived particles in the context of R-parity violating (RPV) supersymmetric models, implying that they…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Pablo Candia , Giovanna Cottin , Andrés Méndez , Víctor Muñoz

The upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande (HyperK) experiment is expected to detect the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB). This requires to ponder all possible sources of background. Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) which annihilates into neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Sandra Robles

The KEK to Kamioka long-baseline neutrino experiment (K2K) is the first accelerator-based experiment with hundreds of km neutrino path length. K2K focuses on the study of the existence of neutrino oscillations in $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Ichikawa

Precision detection of neutrino-nucleus interactions in water with the complete detection of the final state, including leptons and hadrons, is challenging due to water being a non-scintillating medium. This can be a limitation for the…

The large-volume liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) has been proposed as a next-generation experiment for low-energy neutrinos. High-precision spectroscopy of solar, Supernova and geo-neutrinos provides a new…

Preceding a core-collapse supernova, various processes produce an increasing amount of neutrinos of all flavors characterized by mounting energies from the interior of massive stars. Among them, the electron antineutrinos are potentially…

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Nakamura , Seidai Tairafune , Kyoshi Nishijima , Aoi Eguchi , Kota Nakagiri , Yasuhiro Nakajima , Shizuka Shima , Natsumi Taniuchi , Eiichiro Watanabe , Masashi Yokoyama , Patrick de Perio , Saki Fujita , Cesar Jesus-Valls , Kai Martens , Ka M. Tsui , Mark R. Vagins , Junjie Xia , Shota Izumiyama , Masahiro Kuze , Ryo Matsumoto , Kotaro Terada , Ryusei Asaka , Masaki Ishitsuka , Hiroshi Ito , Yuga Ommura , Natsuki Shigeta , Masataka Shinoki , Koki Yamauchi , Tsukasa Yoshida , Rhea Gaur , Vincent Gousy-Leblan , Mark Hartz , Akira Konaka , Xiaoyue Li , Shaomin Chen , Benda Xu , Aiqiang Zhang , Bin Zhang , Magdalena Posiadala-Zezula , Steven B. Boyd , Rory Edwards , David Hadley , Matthew Nicholson , Marcus O'Flaherty , Benjamin Richards , Ajmi Ali , Blair Jamieson , Shogo Amanai , Lluis Marti-Magro , Akihiro Minamino , Ryo Shibayama , Serina Suzuki

In this review we first address two questions: 1. Why do we need kilometer-scale muon and neutrino detectors? 2. What do we learn from the operating Baikal and AMANDA detectors about the construction of kilometer-scale detectors? I will…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Halzen