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The Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program aims to observe and reconstruct thousands of neutrino-argon interactions with its three detectors (SBND, MicroBooNE and ICARUS-T600), using their hundred of tonnes Liquid Argon Time…

We present a measurement of the rate of correlated neutron captures in the WATCHBOY detector, deployed at a depth of approximately 390 meters water equivalent (m.w.e.) in the Kimballton Underground Research Facility (KURF). WATCHBOY…

The MINERvA experiment is designed to perform precision studies of neutrino-nucleus scattering using $\nu_\mu$ and ${\bar\nu}_\mu$ neutrinos incident at 1-20 GeV in the NuMI beam at Fermilab. This article presents a detailed description of…

An upgrade of the long baseline neutrino experiment T2K near detector ND280 is currently being developed with the goal to reduce systematic uncertainties in the prediction of number of events at the far detector Super-Kamiokande. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 O. Mineev , A. Blondel , Y. Favre , S. Fedotov , A. Khotjantsev , A. Korzenev , Yu. Kudenko , A. Mefodiev , E. Noah , D. Sgalaberna , S. Suvorov

A fast neutron spectrometer consisting of segmented plastic scintillator and He-3 proportional counters was constructed for the measurement of neutrons in the energy range 1 MeV to 200 MeV. We discuss its design, principles of operation,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-24 T. J. Langford , C. D. Bass , E. J. Beise , H. Breuer , D. K. Erwin , C. R. Heimbach , J. S. Nico

The SoLid experiment aims to measure neutrino oscillation at a baseline of 6.4 m from the BR2 nuclear reactor in Belgium. Anti-neutrinos interact via inverse beta decay (IBD), resulting in a positron and neutron signal that are correlated…

The MINOS long-baseline experiment is using the NuMI neutrino beam to make precise measurements of neutrino flavor oscillations in the "atmospheric" neutrino sector. MINOS observes the $\nu_\mu$ disappearance oscillations seen in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-28 Alec Habig

Understanding the quark and gluon substructure of the nucleon has been a prime goal of both nuclear and particle physics for more than thirty years and has led to much of the progress in strong interaction physics. Still the flavor…

A new type of cold/ultracold neutron detector that can realize a spatial resolution of less than 100 nm was developed using nuclear emulsion. The detector consists of a fine-grained nuclear emulsion coating and a 50-nm thick $^{10}$B$_4$C…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 N. Naganawa , T. Ariga , S. Awano , M. Hino , K. Hirota , H. Kawahara , M. Kitaguchi , K. Mishima , H. M. Shimizu , S. Tada , S. Tasaki , A. Umemoto

The main goal of the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment is the precise measurement of the parameters of neutrino oscillation and the search for CP-violation in the lepton sector. In 2017, the T2K collaboration launched the Near Detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Fedotov

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies and for neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. The Far Detector of DUNE will consist of four 10 kt liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-25 A. Gallego-Ros

A novel composite, scintillating material intended for neutron detection and composed of small (1.5 mm) cubes of KG2-type lithium glass embedded in a matrix of scintillating plastic has been developed in the form of a 2.2 in.-diameter, 3.1…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-27 G. C. Rich , K. Kazkaz , H. P. Martinez , T. Gushue

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam. It consists of two finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad off-axis in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-03 Hongyue Duyang

The MiniCLEAN dark matter experiment will exploit a single-phase liquid-argon detector instrumented with photomultiplier tubes submerged in the cryogen with nearly 4pi coverage of a 500 kg (150 kg) target (fiducial) mass. The high light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-06 Andrew Hime

A large-volume liquid scintillator can be used as a tracking detector to measure high-energy neutrino events, like atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino beams. The lepton flavor recognition is almost absolute above 1 GeV. The energy resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 Juha Peltoniemi

Compelling experimental evidences of neutrino oscillations and their implication that neutrinos are massive particles have given neutrinoless double beta decay a central role in astroparticle physics. In fact, the discovery of this elusive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Valter Bonvicini , Silvia Capelli , Oliviero Cremonesi , Giacomo Cucciati , Luca Gironi , Maura Pavan , Ezio Previtali , Monica Sisti

We discuss the Chooz experiment, a long baseline search for neutrino vacuum oscillations, which will utilize a large gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillation detector one km from a large nuclear power station in France. The 300-meter (water…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Steinberg

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

MINOS is an accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. An intense high energy neutrino beam is produced at Fermilab and sent to a near detector on the Fermilab site and also to a 5 kTon far detector 735 km away in the Soudan…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-22 Milind V. Diwan