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Environmental neutrons are a source of background for rare event searches in underground laboratories. Since the majority of the neutron background comes from the cavern walls due to the intrinsic radioactivity of concrete and rock, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-11 Francesco Pompa , Klaus Eitel , Alfredo Davide Ferella , Felix Kratzmeier , Melih Solmaz , Kathrin Valerius

SBND is a 112 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector located 110 meters from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) target at Fermilab. Its main goals include searches for eV-scale sterile neutrinos as part of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-08 SBND Collaboration , R. Acciarri , L. Aliaga-Soplin , O. Alterkait , R. Alvarez-Garrote , D. Andrade Aldana , C. Andreopoulos , A. Antonakis , L. Arellano , W. Badgett , S. Balasubramanian , A. Barnard , V. Basque , J. Bateman , A. Beever , E. Belchior , M. Betancourt , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , J. Bogenschuetz , D. Brailsford , A. Brandt , S. Brickner , M. B. Brunetti , A. Bueno , L. Camilleri , A. Campos , D. Caratelli , D. Carber , B. Carlson , M. Carneiro , R. Castillo , F. Cavanna , A. Chappell , H. Chen , S. Chung , R. Coackley , J. I. Crespo-Anadón , C. Cuesta , Y. Dabburi , O. Dalager , M. Dall'Olio , R. Darby , M. Del Tutto , V. Di Benedetto , Z. Djurcic , V. do Lago Pimentel , S. Dominguez-Vidales , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , A. Ezeribe , C. Fan , A. Filkins , B. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , G. Fricano , I. Furic , A. Furmanski , S. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , I. Gil-Botella , S. Gollapinni , P. Green , W. C. Griffith , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , A. Hamer , P. Hamilton , M. Hernandez-Morquecho , B. Howard , Z. Imani , C. James , R. S. Jones , M. Jung , T. Junk , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , L. Kashur , K. Kelly , W. Ketchum , M. King , J. Klein , L. Kotsiopoulou , S. Kr Das , T. Kroupova , V. A. Kudryavtsev , N. Lane , H. Lay , R. LaZur , J. -Y. Li , K. Lin , B. Littlejohn , L. Liu , W. C. Louis , E. Lourenco , X. Lu , X. Luo , A. Machado , P. Machado , C. Mariani , F. Marinho , J. Marshall , A. Mastbaum , K. Mavrokoridis , N. McConkey , B. McCusker , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , G. Moreno Granados , C. A. Moura , J. Mueller , S. Mulleriababu , A. Navrer-Agasson , M. Nebot-Guinot , V. C. L. Nguyen , F. J. Nicolas-Arnaldos , J. Nowak , S. Oh , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Pandey , A. Papadopoulou , H. B. Parkinson , J. L. Paton , L. Paudel , L. Paulucci , Z. Pavlovic , D. Payne , L. Pelegrina Gutiérrez , J. Plows , F. Psihas , G. Putnam , X. Qian , R. Rajagopalan , P. Ratoff , H. Ray , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , M. Roda , J. Romeo-Araujo , M. Ross-Lonergan , N. Rowe , P. Roy , I. Safa , A. Sanchez-Castillo , P. Sanchez-Lucas , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schneider , A. Schukraft , H. Scott , E. Segreto , J. Sensenig , M. Shaevitz , B. Slater , J. Smith , M. Soares-Nunes , M. Soderberg , S. Söldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , C. Thorpe , D. Totani , M. Toups , C. Touramanis , L. Tung , G. A. Valdiviesso , R. G. Van de Water , A. Vázquez Ramos , L. Wan , M. Weber , H. Wei , T. Wester , A. White , A. Wilkinson , P. Wilson , T. Wongjirad , E. Worcester , M. Worcester , S. Yadav , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. Yates , B. Yu , H. Yu , J. Yu , B. Zamorano , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Searches for light sterile neutrinos are motivated by the unexpected observation of electron neutrino appearance in short-baseline experiments, such as the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and the Mini Booster Neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-08 Carlos A. Argüelles , Jordi Salvado

The RENO experiment reports measured flux and energy spectrum of reactor electron antineutrinos\,($\overline{\nu}_e$) from the six reactors at Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant. The measurements use 966\,094\,(116\,111)\,$\overline{\nu}_e$…

We propose the first truly directional antineutrino detector for antineutrinos above the hydrogen inverse beta decay (IBD) threshold, with potential applications including monitoring for nuclear nonproliferation, spatially mapping…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-05 Benjamin R. Safdi , Burkhant Suerfu

We present a new experimental method for measuring the process of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high energy neutrino beam production target. This detector would be…

The Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) is a new experimental apparatus planned for Hall A at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab). SoLID will combine large angular and momentum acceptance with the capability to…

An aboveground 60-kg reactor-antineutrino detector prototype, comprised of a 2-dimensional array of 36 $^{6}$Li-doped pulse shape sensitive plastic scintillator bars, is described. Each bar is 50~cm long with a square cross section of…

The LSND experiment has observed a 3.8 sigma excess of anti-nu_e events from an anti-nu_mu beam coming from pions at rest. If confirmed, the LSND anomaly would imply new physics beyond the standard model, presumably in the form of some…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-08 B. Baibussinov , E. Calligarich , S. Centro , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , F. Pietropaolo , C. Rubbia , P. Sala

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

We consider the determination of the solar neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $\theta_{12}$ by studying oscillations of reactor anti-neutrinos emitted by nuclear power plants (located mainly in France) with a detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. T. Petcov , T. Schwetz

In the recent years, major milestones in neutrino physics were accomplished at nuclear reactors: the smallest neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ was determined with high precision and the emitted antineutrino spectrum was measured at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-10 Stefan Schoppmann

SND@LHC is a compact experiment that will detect high energy neutrinos produced by heavy flavour quarks at the LHC in the pseudo-rapidity region 7.2 $< \eta <$ 8.6. It is an hybrid system, comprising nuclear emulsions and electronic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-16 Francesco-Luigi Navarria

In the past decades, short baseline neutrino oscillation studies around experimental or commercial reactor cores have revealed two anomalies. The first one is linked to the absolute flux and the second one to the spectral shape. The first…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-29 Laura Bernard

Compared to other neutrino sources, the huge anti-neutrino fluxes at nuclear reactor based experiments empower us to derive stronger bounds on non-standard interactions of neutrinos with electrons mediated by light scalar/vector mediators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Bhaskar Dutta , Sumit Ghosh , Tianjun Li , Adrian Thompson , Ankur Verma

The reactor antineutrinos are used for the precise measurement of oscillation parameters in the 3-neutrino model, and also used to investigate active-sterile neutrino mixing sensitivity in the 3$+$1 neutrino framework. In the present work,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-05 S. P. Behera , D. K. Mishra , L. M. Pant

We propose a definite search for sterile neutrinos at the J-PARC Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF). With the 3 GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) and spallation neutron target, an intense neutrino beam from muon decay…

Neutrino-nucleus reactions cross sections, obtained for neutrino energies in the range $\varepsilon_{\nu}\leq 100-120$ MeV (low- and intermediate-energy range), which refer to promising neutrino detection targets of current terrestrial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-03 J. Sinatkas , V. Tsaktsara , Odysseas Kosmas

The CONNIE detector prototype is operating at a distance of 30 m from the core of a 3.8 GW$_{\rm th}$ nuclear reactor with the goal of establishing Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD) as a new technology for the detection of coherent elastic…

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,…