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If there exist unstable but long-lived relics of the early universe, their decays could produce detectable fluxes of gamma rays and neutrinos. In this paper, we point out that the decays of superheavy particles, $m_{\chi} \gtrsim 10^{10} \,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Kim V. Berghaus , Dan Hooper , Emily R. Simon

High-power particle production targets are crucial elements of future neutrino and other rare particle beams. Fermilab plans to produce a beam of neutrinos (LBNE) with a 2.3 MW proton beam (Project X). Any solid target is unlikely to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 P. Hurh , O. Caretta , T. Davenne , C. Densham , P. Loveridge , N. Simos

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube and the potential to constrain source models of ultra-high energy cosmic rays provide the motivation to develop instruments for the observation of neutrinos above $10^7$ GeV. Among the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Eliza Gazda , Eleanor Judd , John F. Krizmanic , Evgeny Kutzenzov , Oscar Romero Matamala , Patrick J. Reardon , Lawrence Wiencke

As long-baseline neutrino experiments enter the precision era, the difficulties associated with understanding neutrino interaction cross sections on atomic nuclei are expected to limit experimental sensitivities to oscillation parameters.…

The Daya Bay and RENO experiments have recently observed a non-zero $\theta_{13}$ at more than $5\sigma$ CL. This has important consequences for future neutrino oscillation experiments. We analyze these within the LAGUNA design study which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-19 Pilar Coloma , Tracey Li , Silvia Pascoli

We propose a low-cost and movable setup to probe minicharged particles (or milli-charged particles) using high-intensity proton fixed-target facilities. This proposal, FerMINI, consists of a milliQan-type detector, requiring…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Kevin J. Kelly , Yu-Dai Tsai

The Booster Neutrino Experiment (MiniBooNE) searches for numu-to-nue oscillations using the O(1 GeV) neutrino beam produced by the Booster synchrotron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). The Booster delivers protons with 8…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 MiniBooNE Collaboration

MEMPHYS (MEgaton Mass PHYSics) is a proposed large-scale water Cherenkov experiment to be performed deep underground. It is dedicated to nucleon decay searches, neutrinos from supernovae, solar and atmospheric neutrinos, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-02-20 L. Agostino , M. Buizza-Avanzini , M. Dracos , D. Duchesneau , M. Marafini , M. Mezzetto , L. Mosca , T. Patzak , A. Tonazzo , N. Vassilopoulos

Two new facilities have recently been proposed to measure low energy neutrino-nucleus cross sections, the nu-SNS (Spallation Neutron Source) and low energy beta beams. The former produces neutrinos by pion decay at rest, while the latter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. C. McLaughlin

Neutrino beam facilities, like spallation neutron facilities, produce copious quantities of neutrinos from the decay at rest of mesons and muons. The viability of decay-in-flight neutrino beams as sites for decay-at-rest neutrino studies…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-21 C. Grant , B. R. Littlejohn

We consider a $\beta$-Beam facility where $^8$Li and $^8$B ions are accelerated at $\gamma = 350$, accumulated in a 10 Km storage ring and let decay, so as to produce intense $\bar \nu_e$ and $\nu_e$ beams. These beams illuminate two iron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Pilar Coloma , Andrea Donini , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Jacobo Lopez-Pavon

Neutrino physics is a forefront topic of today's research. Large detectors installed underground study neutrino properties using neutrino beams from muons decaying in flight. DAEdALUS looks at neutrinos from stopped muons, "decay at rest"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Jose R. Alonso

Neutrino physics is an experimentally driven field. So, we investigate the different detection techniques available in the literature and study the various neutrino oscillation experiments in a chronological manner. Our primary focus is on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-01 Ankur Nath , Ng. K. Francis

Antiprotons, stored and cooled at low energies in a storage ring or at rest in traps, are highly desirable for the investigation of a large number of basic questions on fundamental interactions. This includes the static structure of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Javier Resta-Lopez , James R. Hunt , Carsten P. Welsch

Motivated by the recently reported evidence of an association between a high-energy neutrino and a gamma-ray flare from the blazar TXS 0506+056, we calculate the expected high-energy neutrino signal from past, individual flares, from twelve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 Foteini Oikonomou , Kohta Murase , Paolo Padovani , Elisa Resconi , Peter Mészáros

The OPERA neutrino detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in appearance mode through the study of $\nu_\mu\to\nu_\tau$ oscillations. The apparatus…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-08-05 N. Agafonova

The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermilab is under construction and due to begin operations in late 2004. NuMI will deliver an intense $\nu_{\mu}$ beam of variable energy 2-20 GeV directed into the Earth at 58 mrad.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Sacha E. Kopp

A Neutrino Factory producing an intense beam composed of nu_e(nubar_e) and nubar_mu(nu_mu) from muon decays has been shown to have the greatest sensitivity to the two currently unmeasured neutrino mixing parameters, theta_13 and delta_CP .…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Cervera , A. Laing , J. Martin-Albo , F. J. P. Soler

The accurate knowledge of the $\bar\nu_e (\nu_\mu)$ beam produced in $\mu^-$ decays and the absence of $\nu_e (\bar\nu_\mu)$ contamination, make a future muon storage ring the ideal place to look for $\numunue$ ($\numubarnuebar$)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bueno , M. Campanelli , A. Rubbia

Efforts to detect ultrahigh energy neutrinos are driven by several objectives: What is the origin of astrophysical neutrinos detected with IceCube? What are the sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays? Do the ANITA detected events point to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Anthony M. Brown , Abraham D. Falcone , Mosè Mariotti , Ignacio Taboada