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We explore the low energy neutrinos from stopped cosmic ray muons in the Earth. Based on the muon intensity at the sea level and the muon energy loss rate, the depth distributions of stopped muons in the rock and sea water can be derived.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Wan-Lei Guo

Detecting the antineutrinos emitted by the decay of radioactive elements in the mantle and crust could provide a direct measurement of the total abundance of uranium and thorium in the Earth. In calculating the antineutrino flux at specific…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 Casey G. Rothschild , Mark C. Chen , Frank P. Calaprice

The experimental and theoretical research on the physics of massive neutrinos is based on the standard paradigm of three-neutrino mixing, which describes the oscillations of neutrino flavors measured in solar, atmospheric, and long-baseline…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 Ilham El Atmani

New physics contributions to the (anti)neutrino-nucleon elastic scattering process can be constrained by precision measurements, with controlled Standard Model uncertainties. In a large class of new physics models, interactions involving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Oleksandr Tomalak , Minerba Betancourt , Kaushik Borah , Richard J. Hill , Thomas Junk

The SNO+ Collaboration reports new results on reactor antineutrino oscillations using data acquired from May 2022 through July 2025. The spectral analysis of a flux dominated by nuclear reactors at 240, 350, and 355 kilometers yields the…

New antineutrino spectra of fissile isotopes ($^{235}$U, $^{238}$U, $^{239}$Pu and $^{241}$Pu) which are containing in a nuclear reactor fuel have been obtained. A combined technique was used: calculation of antineutrino spectra and their…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-04 P. Naumov , S. Silaeva , V. Sinev , A. Vlasenko

There is a growing realization that neutrinos can be used as a diagnostic tool to better understand the inner workings of a nuclear weapon. Robust estimates demonstrate that an Inverse Beta Decay (IBD) neutrino scintillation detector built…

We deployed a small, 80kg, antineutrino detector based on solid plastic scintillator, called MiniCHANDLER for nearly three months at a distance of 25m from a 2.9GW thermal power reactor core at the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 Alireza Haghighat , Patrick Huber , Shengchao Li , Jonathan M. Link , Camillo Mariani , Jaewon Park , Tulasi Subedi

The extraction of the nucleon's strangeness axial charge, Delta_s, from inclusive, quasielastic neutral current neutrino cross sections is studied within the framework of the plane-wave impulse approximation. We find that the value of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. B. Barbaro , A. De Pace , T. W. Donnelly , A. Molinari , M. J. Musolf

The age of exascale computing has arrived and the risks associated with neutron and other atmospheric radiation are becoming more critical as the computing power increases, hence, the expected Mean Time Between Failures will be reduced…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Hernán Asorey , Rafael Mayo-García

We discuss a possibility that the so-called reactor antineutrino anomaly can be, at least in part, explained by applying a quantum field-theoretical approach to neutrino oscillations, which in particular predicts a small deviation from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-17 D. V. Naumov , V. A. Naumov , D. S. Shkirmanov

Upper limits on the \nuebar flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory have been set based on the \nuebar charged-current reaction on deuterium. The reaction produces a positron and two neutrons in coincidence. This distinctive signature…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 SNO Collaboration

We study radiative corrections to neutron beta decay and low-energy (anti)neutrino-nucleon scattering within a top-down effective field theory approach. As it was recently shown, a few electromagnetic and electroweak low-energy coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-02 Oleksandr Tomalak

The scattering rate of multi-${\rm TeV}$ and ${\rm PeV}$ energy neutrinos is fast becoming an interesting topic in (astro)particle-physics. This is due to experimental progress at Neutrino Telescopes such as IceCube which have begun to gain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-28 Rhorry Gauld

We report on the search for anti-neutrinos of yet unknown origin with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. In particular, a hypothetical anti-neutrino flux from the Sun is investigated. Anti-neutrinos are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-01-17 G. Bellini , Borexino Collaboration

In this article, we present the first detailed simulation of the antineutrino emissions from an Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) core, benchmarked with input data from the UK Hartlepool reactors. An accurate description of the evolution of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-19 Sandra Bogetic , Robert Mills , Adam Bernstein , Jonathon Coleman , Alex Morgan , Andrew Petts

A neutrino produced in a particle decay maintains an unusual wave nature that reveals a diffraction phenomenon in a large spatial region. Diffraction gives a new component to a neutrino flux in this region and modifies determinations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-17 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

Antineutrinos from nuclear reactors have the potential to be used for reactor monitoring in the mid- to far-field under certain conditions. Antineutrinos are an unshieldable signal and carry information about the reactor core and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-02 Steve T. Wilson , Chris Cotsford , James Armitage , Niamh Holland , Matthew Malek , John. G. Learned

Nuclear reactors have long been a favored source for antineutrino measurements for estimates of power and burnup. With appropriate detector parameters and background rejection, an estimate of the reactor power can be derived from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-03 Emma Houston , Oluwatomi Akindele , Marc Bergevin , Adam Bernstein , Steven Dazley , Sandra Bogetic