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These proceedings describe the physics goals and initial design for a new experiment: NuSOnG -- Neutrino Scattering On Glass. The design will yield about two orders of magnitude higher statistics than previous high energy neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Conrad

Neutrino self-interaction with a larger ``Fermi constant'' is often resorted to for understanding various puzzles of our universe. We point out that a light, neutrinophilic scalar particle $\phi$ through radiative correction leads to an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-11 Yue Zhang

Feynman's path amplitude formulation of quantum mechanics is used to analyse the production of charged leptons from charged current weak interaction processes. For neutrino induced reactions the interference effects predicted are usually…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 J. H. Field

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

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

Consequences of a new force mediated by a light scalar particle for neutrino oscillation experiments are considered. Such a force could give rise to neutrino masses and mixings whose matter dependence is much more significant than the MSW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kathryn M. Zurek

An analysis of the neutrino oscillation physics capability of a low energy Neutrino Factory is presented, including a first simulation of the detector efficiency and event energy threshold. The sensitivity of the physics reach to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan Bross , Malcolm Ellis , Steve Geer , Olga Mena , Silvia Pascoli

The lightest supersymmetric particle may decay with branching ratios that correlate with neutrino oscillation parameters. In this case the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has the potential to probe the atmospheric neutrino mixing angle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 F. De Campos , O. J. P. Eboli , M. Hirsch , M. B. Magro , W. Porod , D. Restrepo , J. W. F. Valle

Neutrino-electron scattering can be used to probe neutrino electromagnetic properties at low-threshold underground detectors with good recoil electron energy resolution. We study the sensitivity of Helium detector experiments, such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 O. G. Miranda

The unknown neutrino mass hierarchy -- whether the $\nu_3$ mass eigenstate is the heaviest or the lightest -- represents a major gap in our knowledge of neutrino properties. Determining the hierarchy is a critical step toward further…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-09 R. B. Patterson

Muon beams are customarily obtained via $K/\pi$ decays produced in proton interaction on target. In this paper we investigate the possibility to produce low emittance muon beams from electron-positron collisions at centre-of-mass energy…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 M. Antonelli , M. Boscolo , R. Di Nardo , P. Raimondi

In this work, dispersion relations of $\pi^0$ and $\pi^{\pm}$ have been studied in vacuum in the limit of weak external magnetic field using a phenomenological pion-nucleon $(\pi N)$ Lagrangian. For our purpose, we have calculated the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Souvik Priyam Adhya , Mahatsab Mandal , Subhrajyoti Biswas , Pradip K. Roy

Current long baseline experiments aim at measuring neutrino oscillation parameters with a high precision. A critical quantity is the neutrino energy which can not be measured directly but has to be reconstructed from the observed hadrons. A…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-03 T. Leitner , O. Buss , U. Mosel , L. Alvarez-Ruso

In this brief review, I discuss the new physics unveiled by neutrino oscillation experiments over the past several years, and discuss several attempts at understanding the mechanism behind neutrino masses and lepton mixing. It is fair to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Andre de Gouvea

A limit on the mass of the tau neutrino is derived from 4.5x10^6 tau pairs produced at a center of mass energy of 10.6 GeV. The measurement technique involves a two-dimensional extended likelihood analysis, including the dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Jean E. Duboscq

If the cosmological limits on the sum of the neutrino masses are taken seriously we have first measurements of the masses of the neutrinos. Using the Planck experiment's limit $\sum_{i=1}^3{m_i} < 230 ~meV$ and some simple assumptions on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-11 Peter S. Cooper

Developing neutrino astronomy requires a good understanding of the neutrino oscillations mechanism. The European strategy for neutrino oscillation physics sets a high priority on future long baseline neutrino experiments with the aim to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-13 Sampsa Vihonen

We propose a beta decay experiment based on a sample of ultracold atomic tritium. These initial conditions enable detection of the helium ion in coincidence with the beta. We construct a two-dimensional fit incorporating both the shape of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-11 M. Jerkins , J. R. Klein , J. H. Majors , F. Robicheaux , M. G. Raizen

There are three observables related to neutrino mass, namely the kinematic mass in direct searches, the effective mass in neutrino-less double beta decay, and the sum of neutrino masses in cosmology. In the limit of exactly degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 Werner Rodejohann

Large-scale neutrino telescopes have the primary objective to detect and characterize neutrino sources in the universe. These experiments rely on the detection of charged leptons produced in the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei. Angular…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-28 Pascal Gutjahr , Jean-Marco Alameddine , Alexander Sandrock , Jan Soedingrekso , Mirco Hünnefeld , Wolfgang Rhode