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Neutrino Factory is a facility for future precision studies of neutrino oscillations. A so called near detector is essential for reaching the aimed precision of neutrino oscillation analysis. Main task of a near detector is to measure the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-11 Rosen Matev

MINER$\nu$A (Main INjector ExpeRiment $\nu$-A) is a new few-GeV neutrino cross section experiment that began taking data in the FNAL NuMI (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam-line in March of 2010.…

The OPERA neutrino experiment is designed to perform the first observation of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ channel, via the detection of the $\tau$-leptons created in charged current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-13 OPERA Collaboration , N. Agafonova , A. Aleksandrov , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , T. Asada , D. Autiero , A. Badertscher , A. Ben Dhahbi , D. Bender , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , G. Brunetti , B. Buettner , S. Buontempo , L. Chaussard , M. Chernyavskiy , V. Chiarella , A. Chukanov , L. Consiglio , N. D'Ambrosio , P. Del Amo Sanchez , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , A. Di Crescenzo , D. Di Ferdinando , N. Di Marco , S. Dmitrievski , M. Dracos , D. Duchesneau , S. Dusini , J. Ebert , A. Ereditato , J. Favier , T. Ferber , R. A. Fini , T. Fukuda , A. Garfagnini , G. Giacomelli , C. Goellnitz , J. Goldberg , Y. Gornushkin , G. Grella , F. Grianti , A. M. Guler , C. Gustavino , C. Hagner , K. Hakamata , T. Hara , T. Hayakawa , M. Hierholzer , A. Hollnagel , B. Hosseini , H. Ishida , K. Ishiguro , M. Ishikawa , K. Jakovcic , C. Jollet , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , T. Katsuragawa , H. Kawahara , J. Kawada , J. H. Kim , S. H. Kim , M. Kimura , N. Kitagawa , B. Klicek , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , A. Lauria , J. Lenkeit , A. Ljubicic , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , A. Malgin , G. Mandrioli , J. Marteau , T. Matsuo , V. Matveev , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , A. Meregaglia , P. Migliozzi , S. Mikado , A. Minotti , M. Miyanishi , E. Miyashita , P. Monacelli , M. C. Montesi , K. Morishima , M. T. Muciaccia , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , Y. Nakatsuka , K. Niwa , S. Ogawa , N. Okateva , A. Olshevsky , T. Omura , K. Ozaki , A. Paoloni , B. D. Park , I. G. Park , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , E. Pennacchio , H. Pessard , C. Pistillo , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , K. Pretzl , F. Pupilli , R. Rescigno , M. Roda , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , A. Rubbia , A. Russo , O. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , Y. Sato , A. Schembri , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , I. Shakiryanova , T. Schcedrina , A. Sheshukov , H. Shibuya , T. Shiraishi , G. Shoziyoev , S. Simone , M. Sioli , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , M. Spinetti , L. Stanco , N. Starkov , S. M. Stellacci , M. Stipcevic , T. Strauss , P. Strolin , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , V. Tioukov , P. Tolun , S. Tufanli , P. Vilain , M. Vladimirov , L. Votano , J. L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , B. Wonsak , C. S. Yoon , J. Yoshida , M. Yoshimoto , Y. Zaitsev , S. Zemskova , A. Zghiche

Liquid scintillator detectors are playing an increasingly important role in low-energy neutrino experiments. In this article, we describe a generic energy response model of liquid scintillator detectors that provides energy estimations of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-18 Logan Lebanowski , Linyan Wan , Xiangpan Ji , Zhe Wang , Shaomin Chen

NuTeV is a neutrino-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering experiment at Fermilab. The detector consists of an iron-scintillator sampling calorimeter interspersed with drift chambers, followed by a muon toroidal spectrometer. We present…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 The NuTeV Collaboration , D. A. Harris , J. Yu

This MINERvA analysis is the first neutrino and antineutrino study of a shallow inelastic scattering region, which is the transition region between resonant production and deep inelastic scattering processes. This transition is explicitly…

The results from the initial exposure of the MINOS detectors to neutrinos produced by the Fermilab NuMI beam are reported here. The exposure consisted of 1.27 x 10^{20} 120 GeV protons incident on the NuMI target. The data show the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Brian J. Rebel

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an experimental project designed to determine the neutrino mass ordering and probe the fundamental properties of the neutrino oscillations. The JUNO central detector is a spherical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 X. Fang , Y. Zhang , G. H. Gong , G. F. Cao , T. Lin , C. W. Yang , W. D. Li

We propose the operation of \textbf{LEvEL}, the Low-Energy Neutrino Experiment at the LHC, a neutrino detector near the Large Hadron Collider Beam Dump. Such a detector is capable of exploring an intense, low-energy neutrino flux and can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-06 Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado , Alberto Marchionni , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez

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

JUNO is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment currently under construction in Jiangmen, China. It is primary aiming to determine the neutrino mass ordering. Moreover, its 20\,kt target mass makes it an ideal detector to study neutrinos from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Livia Ludhova , Henning Rebber , Björn Soenke Wonsak , Yu Xu

The reactor antineutrinos are used for the precise measurement of oscillation parameters in the 3-neutrino model, and also used to investigate active-sterile neutrino mixing sensitivity in the 3$+$1 neutrino framework. In the present work,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-05 S. P. Behera , D. K. Mishra , L. M. Pant

The existence of the coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering reaction requires to evaluate, for any detector devoted to WIMP searches, the irreducible background due to conventional neutrino sources and at same time, it gives a unique chance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Giovanni De Lellis , Antonia Di Crescenzo , Andrea Gallo Rosso , Valerio Gentile , Francesco Vissani

The reliable detection of neutrons in a harsh gamma-ray environment is an important aspect of establishing non-destructive methods for the characterization of spent nuclear fuel. In this study, we present results from extended in-situ…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-22 Hanno Perrey , Linus Ros , Mikael Elfman , Ulrika Bäckström , Per Kristiansson , Anders Sjöland

Predictions from widely-used neutrino-nucleus interaction event generators are compared to measurements of transverse kinematic imbalances, made by both the T2K and MINERvA experiments, to allow a joint characterisation of the nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-05 Stephen Dolan

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large and high precision liquid scintillator detector under construction in the south of China. With its 20 kt target mass, it aims to achieve an unprecedented 3% energy resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-19 Marco Grassi

We propose the liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) as a next-generation neutrino observatory on the scale of 50 kt. The outstanding successes of the Borexino and KamLAND experiments demonstrate the large…

Neutrino cross sections are a critical ingredient in experiments that depend on neutrino scattering to reconstruct event kinematics and infer neutrino characteristics, like NOvA and T2K. An opportunity exists to reduce the 5-10% broad…

The velocity of a ~3 GeV neutrino beam is measured by comparing detection times at the Near and Far detectors of the MINOS experiment, separated by 734 km. A total of 473 Far Detector neutrino events was used to measure (v-c)/c = 5.1 +/-…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 MINOS Collaboration , P. Adamson

A new high-precision detector for studying neutrons from beta-delayed neutron emission and direct reaction studies is proposed. The Neutron dEtector with Xn Tracking (NEXT) array is designed to maintain high intrinsic neutron detection…