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It is pointed out that the enhancement of the solar neutrino rate in a real time detector like Super-Kamioka, SNO or Borexino due to neutrino oscillations in the moon during a partial or total solar eclipse may be observable. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Mohan Narayan , G. Rajasekaran , Rahul Sinha

The RENO experiment has been in operation since August 2011 to measure reactor antineutrino disappearance using identical near and far detectors. For accurate measurements of neutrino mixing parameters and efficient data taking, it is…

A concise summary of the "Oscillation at low energies" parallel session at the 2014 Neutrino Oscillation Workshop is provided. Plans to use man-made neutrinos and antineutrinos to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy, search for sterile…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-08 D. A. Dwyer , L. Ludhova

The presence of a super-light sterile neutrino can lead to a dip in the survival probability of solar neutrinos, and explain the suppression of the upturn in the low energy solar neutrino data. In this work, we systematically study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-05 Zikang Chen , Jiajun Liao , Jiajie Ling , Baobiao Yue

We examine the maximal $\nu_e --> \nu_s$ and $\nu_e --> \nu_\mu,\tau$ oscillation solutions to the solar neutrino problem. These solutions lead to roughly a 50% solar flux reduction for the large parameter range $3\times 10^{-10} < \delta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Foot

There has been an increasing interest in the monitoring of nuclear fuel for power reactors by detecting the anti-neutrinos produced during operation. Small liquid scintillator detectors have already demonstrated sensitivity to operational…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. McKeown , D. E. Reyna

A cable loop source calibration system is developed for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, a 20 kton spherical liquid scintillator neutrino experiment. This system is capable of deploying radioactive sources into different…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Jiaqi Hui , Jianglai Liu , Mengjiao Xiao , Tao Zhang , Feiyang Zhang , Yue Meng , Donglian Xu , Ziping Ye

The BOREXINO experiment has been collecting solar neutrino data since 2007, providing the opportunity to study the variation of the event rate over a decade. We find that at 96 \% C.L., the rate of low energy events shows a time modulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Saeed Ansarifard , Yasaman Farzan

As is well known, dark matter direct detection experiments will ultimately be limited by a "neutrino floor," due to the scattering of nuclei by MeV neutrinos from, e.g., nuclear fusion in the Sun. Here we point out the existence of a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 Kenny C. Y. Ng , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter , Carsten Rott

A search for the solar neutrino effective magnetic moment has been performed using data from 1291.5 days exposure during the second phase of the Borexino experiment. No significant deviations from the expected shape of the electron recoil…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-12-06 M. Agostini , K. Altenmüller , S. Appel , V. Atroshchenko , Z. Bagdasarian , D. Basilico , G. Bellini , J. Benziger , D. Bick , G. Bonfini , D. Bravo , B. Caccianiga , F. Calaprice , A. Caminata , S. Caprioli , M. Carlini , P. Cavalcante , A. Chepurnov , K. Choi , L. Collica , D. D'Angelo , S. Davini , A. Derbin , X. F. Ding , A. Di Ludovico , L. Di Noto , I. Drachnev , K. Fomenko , A. Formozov , D. Franco , F. Froborg , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , C. Ghiano , M. Giammarchi , A. Goretti , M. Gromov , D. Guffanti , C. Hagner , T. Houdy , E. Hungerford , Aldo Ianni , Andrea Ianni , A. Jany , D. Jeschke , V. Kobychev , D. Korablev , G. Korga , D. Kryn , M. Laubenstein , E. Litvinovich , F. Lombardi , P. Lombardi , L. Ludhova , G. Lukyanchenko , L. Lukyanchenko , I. Machulin , G. Manuzio , S. Marcocci , J. Martyn , E. Meroni , M. Meyer , L. Miramonti , M. Misiaszek , V. Muratova , B. Neumair , L. Oberauer , B. Opitz , V. Orekhov , F. Ortica , M. Pallavicini , L. Papp , Ö. Penek , N. Pilipenko , A. Pocar , A. Porcelli , G. Ranucci , A. Razeto , A. Re , M. Redchuk , A. Romani , R. Roncin , N. Rossi , S. Schönert , D. Semenov , M. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , L. F. F. Stokes , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , J. Thurn , M. Toropova , E. Unzhakov , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , F. von Feilitzsch , H. Wang , S. Weinz , M. Wojcik , M. Wurm , Z. Yokley , O. Zaimidoroga , S. Zavatarelli , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

We calculate the event rates induced by high-intensity radioactive sources of nu_e (51Cr) and of anti-nu_e (90Sr), to be located near the BOREXINO detector. Calculations are performed both in the standard case and assuming non-standard…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-09-13 A. Ianni , D. Montanino , G. Scioscia

We compare the implications for 7Be and pp neutrinos of the two MSW fits to the new GALLEX solar neutrino measurements . Small mixing angle solutions tend to suppress the former as electron-neutrinos, but not the latter, and large angle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 J. M. Gelb , Waikwok Kwong , S. P. Rosen

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) opens new approaches for the search of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The NUCLEUS experiment aims to use the intense antineutrino flux produced from nuclear reactor cores to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-07 Giorgio Del Castello

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiment. In addition to GeV-scale oscillation measurements ($\delta_{CP}$, $\theta_{23}$ octant, mass ordering), DUNE features a low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-26 Emile Lavaut

The Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) explanation of the solar neutrino problem is currently compatible with three distinct regions of the two-neutrino oscillation parameter space (delta m^2,sin^2 2theta). We focus on the region with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , D. Montanino , A. Palazzo

We extract information on the fluxes of Be and CNO neutrinos directly from solar neutrino experiments, with minimal assumptions about solar models. Next we compare these results with solar models, both standard and non standard ones.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Fiorentini , B. Ricci

Solar neutrino oscillations with wavelengths comparable to the Earth-Sun distance provide a viable explanations of the long-standing solar neutrino deficit. They imply a time-dependent modulation of the solar neutrino flux due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , D. Montanino

The result of studies of the energy and spatial resolution of a large volume liquid scintillator detector are presented. The relations are obtained, which allows an estimation of the detector's energy and spatial resolutions without…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-07 O. Smirnov

The SoLid experiment aims to make a measurement of very short distance neutrino oscillations using reactor antineutrinos. Key to its sensitivity are the experiments high spatial and energy resolution, combined with a very suitable reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel Saunders

We present a measurement of the geo--neutrino signal obtained from 1353 days of data with the Borexino detector at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. With a fiducial exposure of (3.69 $\pm$ 0.16) $\times$ $10^{31}$ proton…