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There is accumulating evidence for a difference between neutrino and antineutrino oscillations at the $\sim 1$ eV$^2$ scale. The MiniBooNE experiment observes an unexplained excess of electron-like events at low energies in neutrino mode,…

The RENO experiment recently reported the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos consistent with neutrino oscillations, with a significance of 4.9 standard deviations. The published ratio of observed to expected number of…

In 2012 the Daya Bay experiment made an unambiguous observation of reactor antineutrino disappearance over kilometer-long baselines and determined that the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ is non-zero. The measurements of Daya Bay have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-01 The Daya Bay Collaboration

This letter presents the physics and feasibility of reactor antineutrino monitoring to verify the burnup of plutonium loaded in the reactor as a Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel. It examines the magnitude and temporal variation in the antineutrino…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 A. C. Hayes , H. R. Trellue , Michael Martin Nieto , W. B. WIlson

We compare existing segmented plastic antineutrino detectors with our new geometrically improved design for antineutrino detection and light collection efficiency. The purpose of this study is to determine the most suitable design style for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-07 Mustafa Kandemir , Altan Cakir

The measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ opens a gateway for the next generation experiments to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy and the leptonic CP-violating phase. Future reactor experiments will focus on mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-29 Miao He

The first direct detection of neutrinos at the LHC not only marks the beginning of a novel collider neutrino program at CERN but also motivates considering additional neutrino detectors to fully exploit the associated physics potential. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 Akitaka Ariga , Steven Barwick , Jamie Boyd , Max Fieg , Felix Kling , Toni Mäkelä , Camille Vendeuvre , Benjamin Weyer

We analyze in detail the physics potential of an experiment like the one recently proposed by the vIOLETA collaboration: a kilogram-scale Skipper CCD detector deployed 12 meters away from a commercial nuclear reactor core. This experiment…

Measuring the neutrino mixing parameter \ensuremath{\sin^2\theta_{13}} to the sub-percent precision level could be necessary in the next ten years for the precision unitary test of the PMNS matrix. In this work, we discuss the possibility…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-17 Jinnan Zhang , Jun Cao

We present a global analysis of the semileptonic and purely Leptonic nonuniversal and flavor-changing nonstandard neutrino interactions in all the known short-baseline neutrino- and antineutrino-electron scattering experiments. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-31 Amir N. Khan

We report the results of a theoretical study of quasielastic electron and neutrino interactions with carbon. Our approach takes into account the effects of final-state interactions between the struck nucleon and the residual nucleus,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-18 Artur M. Ankowski , Omar Benhar , Makoto Sakuda

Neutrinos are particles that interact rarely, so identifying them requires large detectors which produce lots of data. Processing this data with the computing power available is becoming even more difficult as the detectors increase in size…

We propose an experimental setup to observe coherent elastic neutrino-atom scattering (CE$\nu$AS) using electron antineutrinos from tritium decay and a liquid helium target. In this scattering process with the whole atom, that has not beeen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-06 M. Cadeddu , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , K. A. Kouzakov , E. Picciau , A. I. Studenikin

Current and future accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments require an improved understanding of nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions. One important systematic uncertainty is introduced by the collective impact of nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 Nathan Baudis , Stephen Dolan , Davide Sgalaberna , Sara Bolognesi , Laura Munteanu , Till Dieminger

We discuss the impact of near detectors at a neutrino factory both on standard oscillation and non-standard interaction measurements. Our systematics treatment includes cross section errors, flux errors, and background uncertainties, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-06 Jian Tang , Walter Winter

Conceiving the possibility of using plastic scintillator bars as robust detectors for antineutrino detection for the remote reactor monitoring and nuclear safeguard application we study expected basic performance by Monte Carlo simulation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-20 A. Sh. Georgadze , V. M. Pavlovych , O. A. Ponkratenko , D. A. Litvinov

Nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions based on chiral effective theories are commonly used in ab initio calculations of light nuclei. Here we present a study based on three different NN interactions (up to next-to-next-to-leading order) for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-23 R. B. Baker , M. Burrows , Ch. Elster , P. Maris , G. Popa , S. P. Weppner

A proposed future ultra high energy collider such as the Future Circular Collider is expected to produce intense and collimated neutrino beams from weak hadron decays. In this study, we estimate the production yields of such neutrinos from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-11 B. R. Ko , E. Won