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We have analyzed the atmospheric neutrino data to study the octant of $\theta_{23}$ and the precision of the oscillation parameters for a large Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector. The ICAL being a tracking detector has the ability to measure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Abhijit Samanta

We study to what extent upcoming precision neutrino oscillation experiments will be able to exclude one of the most predictive models of neutrino mass and mixing: the Littlest Seesaw. We show that this model provides a good fit to current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Peter Ballett , Stephen F. King , Silvia Pascoli , Nick W. Prouse , TseChun Wang

The possibility of measuring neutral-current coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS) at the TEXONO experiment has opened high expectations towards probing exotic neutrino properties. Focusing on low threshold Germanium-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-06 T. S. Kosmas , O. G. Miranda , D. K. Papoulias , M. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

Neutrino oscillations were discovered by atmospheric and solar neutrino experiments, and have been confirmed by experiments using neutrinos from accelerators and nuclear reactors. It has been found that there are large mixing angles in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-23 Trung Le

We report a two-detector measurement of the propagation speed of neutrinos over a baseline of 734 km. The measurement was made with the NuMI beam at Fermilab between the near and far MINOS detectors. The fractional difference between the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-11 P. Adamson , I. Anghel , N. Ashby , A. Aurisano , G. Barr , M. Bishai , A. Blake , G. J. Bock , D. Bogert , R. Bumgarner , S. V. Cao , C. M. Castromonte , S. Childress , J. A. B. Coelho , L. Corwin , D. Cronin-Hennessy , J. K. de Jong , A. V. Devan , N. E. Devenish , M. V. Diwan , C. O. Escobar , J. J. Evans , E. Falk , G. J. Feldman , B. Fonville , M. V. Frohne , H. R. Gallagher , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , P. Gouffon , N. Graf , R. Gran , K. Grzelak , A. Habig , S. R. Hahn , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , J. Hirschauer , A. Holin , J. Huang , J. Hylen , G. M. Irwin , Z. Isvan , C. James , S. R. Jefferts , D. Jensen , T. Kafka , S. M. S. Kasahara , G. Koizumi , M. Kordosky , A. Kreymer , K. Lang , J. Ling , P. J. Litchfield , P. Lucas , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , D. Matsakis , N. Mayer , A. McKinley , C. McGivern , M. M. Medeiros , R. Mehdiyev , J. R. Meier , M. D. Messier , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , S. Mitchell , S. Moed Sher , C. D. Moore , L. Mualem , J. Musser , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , H. B. Newman , R. J. Nichol , J. A. Nowak , J. O'Connor , M. Orchanian , R. B. Pahlka , J. Paley , T. E. Parker , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , A. Perch , S. Phan-Budd , R. K. Plunkett , N. Poonthottathil , E. Powers , X. Qiu , A. Radovic , B. Rebel , K. Ridl , S. Römisch , C. Rosenfeld , H. A. Rubin , M. C. Sanchez , J. Schneps , A. Schreckenberger , P. Schreiner , R. Sharma , A. Sousa , N. Tagg , R. L. Talaga , J. Thomas , M. A. Thomson , X. Tian , A. Timmons , S. C. Tognini , R. Toner , D. Torretta , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , B. Viren , A. Weber , R. C. Webb , C. White , L. Whitehead , L. H. Whitehead , S. G. Wojcicki , J. Wright , V. Zhang , R. Zwaska

The SNO+ experiment is a large multi-purpose neutrino detector, currently filled with liquid scintillator. For the first time in a single experiment, SNO+ is able to measure the neutrino oscillation parameters $\theta_{12}$ and $\Delta…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-29 Daniel Cookman

Neutrino oscillations have become well-known phenomenon; the measurements of neutrino mixing angles and mass squared differences are continuously improving. Future oscillation experiments will eventually determine the remaining unknown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 O. G. Miranda , H. Nunokawa

In this paper we stress the idea that new, more precise neutrino cross-sections measurements at low energies will be necessary to improve the results of future big neutrino detectors, which will be dominated by the contribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Campanelli , S. Navas-Concha , A. Rubbia

This brief report is an extension of a prediction of neutrino oscillation with a sterile neutrino using parameters of the sterile neutrino mass and mixing angle recently extracted from experiment.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-02 Leonard S. Kisslinger

The various experiments on neutrino oscillation evidenced that neutrinos have indeed non-zero masses but cannot tell us the absolute neutrino mass scale. This scale of neutrino masses is very important for understanding the evolution and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-09-05 Christian Weinheimer , Kai Zuber

An experiment to search for light sterile neutrinos was conducted at a reactor with a thermal power of 2.8 GW located at the Hanbit nuclear power complex. The search was done with a detector consisting of a ton of Gd-loaded liquid…

We present preliminary results for a neutrino oscillation analysis in progress on data collected with the IceCube 22-string detector during 2007 and 2008. The goal of this analysis is to measure muon neutrino disappearance as a function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Carsten Rott

During the past decade, long-baseline neutrino experiments played a fundamental role in confirming neutrino flavor change and in measuring the neutrino mixing matrix with high precision. This role will be amplified with the next generation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-03-08 Alexandre Sousa

In this document we will review the current status of reactor neutrino oscillation experiments and present their physics potentials for measuring the $\theta_{13}$ neutrino mixing angle. The neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ is currently…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-03-02 C. Mariani

We revisit some of the recent neutrino observations and anomalies in the context of sterile neutrinos. Based on a general parametrization motivated in the presence of sterile neutrinos, the consistency of the MINOS disappearance data with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya , Arun M. Thalapillil , Carlos E. M. Wagner

Despite the dramatic progress made in neutrino oscillation studies recently, several fundamental neutrino parameters remain either unknown or poorly measured. We discuss in detail a method for their measurement by precision studies of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-08 Mikhail Batygov , Stephen Dye , John Learned , Shigenobu Matsuno , Sandip Pakvasa , Gary Varner

Thanks to oscillation experiments it is now an established fact that neutrinos are massive particles. Yet, the assessment of neutrinos absolute mass scale is still an outstanding challenge in particle physics and cosmology as oscillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Andrea Giachero

This article describes the design and performance of the muon monitor for the T2K (Tokaito-Kamioka) long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The muon monitor consists of two types of detector arrays: ionization chambers and silicon…

The turn of the 21st century witnessed a sudden shift in our fundamental understanding of particle physics. While the minimal Standard Model predicts that neutrino masses are exactly zero, the discovery of neutrino oscillations proved the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-05-21 Joseph A. Formaggio , André Luiz C. de Gouvêa , R. G. Hamish Robertson