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Recent data from long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments have provided new information on \theta_{13}, hinting that 0.01\lesssim sin^2 2\theta_{13} \lesssim 0.1 at 2 sigma C.L. Confirmation of this result with high significance will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Tracey Li , Andre Rubbia

Use of low energy atmospheric neutrinos is considered for precision measurement of neutrino mixing parameters. At around energy $E \simeq$ a few $\times$100 MeV and baseline $L$ of a few $\times$1000 km, CP phase effect is $\sim$10 times…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-25 Hisakazu Minakata , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Kimihiro Okumura

We argue that the detection of neutrino signature from the Earth's core can effectively probe the coupling of heavy dark matter ($m_{\chi}>10^{4}$ GeV) to nucleons. We first note that direct searches for dark matter (DM) in such a mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Guey-Lin Lin , Yen-Hsun Lin , Fei-Fan Lee

An ultra-large Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber-based neutrino detector will have the uncommon ability to detect atmospheric tau neutrino events. This paper discusses the most promising modes for identifying charged current tau neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Janet Conrad , Andre de Gouvea , Shashank Shalgar , Joshua Spitz

Non-standard interactions in the propagation of neutrinos in matter can lead to significant deviations from expectations within the standard neutrino oscillation framework and atmospheric neutrino detectors have been considered to set…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Jordi Salvado , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Nuria Rius

After two decades of measurements, neutrino physics is now advancing into the precision era. Withthe long-baseline experiments designed to tackle current open questions, a new query arises: can atmospheric neutrino experiments also play a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-22 C. A. Argüelles , P. Fernández , I. Martínez-Soler , M. Jin

The present research applies Graph Neural-Networks (GNNs) for energy measurement and particle identification tasks for a proposed second detector at the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC). In particular, an iron-scintillator sampling…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 Rowan Kelleher , Anselm Vossen

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

A neural network for software compensation was developed for the highly granular CALICE Analogue Hadronic Calorimeter (AHCAL). The neural network uses spatial and temporal event information from the AHCAL and energy information, which is…

The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a project aimed at building a large underground laboratory to explore the Earth's mater effects on the atmospheric neutrinos in multi-GeV range. INO will host a 50 kton magnetized iron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 A. K. Sikdar , J. Sadiq , P. K. Behera

The low-energy threshold and the large detector size of Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) can make the study on neutrino oscillations with a planet-scale baseline possible. In this task, we consider the configuration that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Wei-Jie Feng , Jian Tang , Tse-Chun Wang , Yi-Xing Zhou

In-ice radio-detection is a promising technique to discover and characterize ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos, with energies above 100 PeV, adopted by present - ARA, ARIANNA, and RNO-G - and planned - IceCube-Gen2. So far, their ability to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-02 Alan Coleman , Oscar Ericsson , Mauricio Bustamante , Christian Glaser

We show that for long-baseline experiments using a Mt water Cerenkov detector atmospheric neutrino data provide a powerful method to resolve parameter degeneracies. In particular, the combination of long-baseline and atmospheric data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Schwetz

This work presents a novel approach to water Cherenkov neutrino detector event reconstruction and classification. Three forms of a Convolutional Neural Network have been trained to reject cosmic muon events, classify beam events, and…

The measurement of charged particle spectra in heavy ion collisions is a way to study properties of hot and dense matter created in these interactions. The centrality dependence of the spectral shape is an important tool to understand the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-22 Petr Balek

A muon collider is expected to produce a high intensity neutrino beam which is an admixture of either $\nu_{\mu}+\bar{\nu_e}$ or $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} +\nu_e$ which can can be directed to underground detectors far away from the source. It will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 R. N. Mohapatra

We describe a method for determining the hierarchy of the neutrino mass spectrum and theta_13 through remote detection of antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor. This method utilizing a single, 10-kt scintillating liquid detector at a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 John Learned , Steve Dye , Sandip Pakvasa , Robert Svoboda

At present, it is still unknown whether the correct mass ordering of the neutrino mass eigenstates is either $m_1$, $m_2$, $m_3$ (Normal Hierarchy, NH), or $m_3$, $m_1$, $m_2$ (Inverted Hierarchy, IH). The new analysis method proposed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-03 Sara Leardini

I discuss the sensitivity of future medium baseline reactor antineutrino experiments on the neutrino mass hierarchy. By using the standard chi^2 analysis, we find that the sensitivity depends strongly on the baseline length L and the energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-01 Yoshitaro Takaesu

A Kalman filter package has been developed for reconstructing muon ($\mu^\pm$) tracks (coming from the neutrino interactions) in ICAL detector. Here, we describe the algorithm of muon track fitting, with emphasis on the error propagation of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-13 Kolahal Bhattacharya , Arnab K. Pal , Gobinda Majumder , Naba K. Mondal