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The IceCube neutrino observatory uses $1\,\mathrm{km}^{3}$ of the natural Antarctic ice near the geographic South Pole as optical detection medium. When charged particles, such as particles produced in neutrino interactions, pass through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Anna Pollmann

The detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos, with energies in the PeV range or above, is a topic of great interest in modern astroparticle physics. The importance comes from the fact that these neutrinos point back to the most energetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 Hermes León Vargas , Andrés Sandoval , Ernesto Belmont , Rubén Alfaro

High precision vertex and energy reconstruction is crucial for large liquid scintillator detectors such as JUNO, especially for the determination of the neutrino mass ordering by analyzing the energy spectrum of reactor neutrinos. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-01 Gui-hong Huang , Wei Jiang , Liang-jian Wen , Yi-fang Wang , Wu-Ming Luo

Precise neutrino energy reconstruction is essential for next-generation long-baseline oscillation experiments, yet current methods remain limited by large uncertainties in neutrino-nucleus interaction modeling. Even so, it is well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Daniel C. Hackett , Shirley Weishi Li , Pedro A. N. Machado , Karla Tame-Narvaez

Hyper-Kamiokande, the next generation large water Cherenkov detector in Japan, is planning to use approximately 80,000 20-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). They are one of the major cost factors of the experiment. We propose a novel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Carsten Rott , Seongjin In , Fabrice Retière , Peter Gumplinger

The proposed KAON factory at the Triumf Laboratory in Vancouver, Canada provides a unique opportunity for high statistics long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. Several possibilities are under active consideration. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Scott Hayward , Martin Sevior , Nathan Weiss , Dennis Wright

We study upward muon flux at neutrino detectors such as Super-Kamiokande resulting from high-energy neutrinos produced by the dark matter annihilation/decay at the Galactic center. In particular, we distinguish showering and non-showering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-10 Junji Hisano , Kazunori Nakayama , Masaki J. S. Yang

The High-Altitude Water-Cherenkov (HAWC) experiment is a TeV $\gamma$-ray observatory located \unit[4100]{m} above sea level on the Sierra Negra mountain in Puebla, Mexico. The detector consists of 300 water-filled tanks, each instrumented…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-14 Samuel Stephens Marinelli , Jordan Goodman

An upgrade of the long baseline neutrino experiment T2K near detector ND280 is currently being developed with the goal to reduce systematic uncertainties in the prediction of number of events at the far detector Super-Kamiokande. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 O. Mineev , A. Blondel , Y. Favre , S. Fedotov , A. Khotjantsev , A. Korzenev , Yu. Kudenko , A. Mefodiev , E. Noah , D. Sgalaberna , S. Suvorov

Recent results show that atmospheric $\nu_\mu$ oscillate with $\delta m^2 \simeq 3 \times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$ and $\sin^2{2\theta_{atm}} \simeq 1$, and that conversion into $\nu_e$ is strongly disfavored. The Super-Kamiokande (SK)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 John F. Beacom , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

The T2K experiment studies oscillations of an off-axis muon neutrino beam between the J-PARC accelerator complex and the Super-Kamiokande detector. Special emphasis is placed on measuring the mixing angle theta_13 by observing electron…

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) will be equipped with a proximity focusing Ring Imaging Cerenkov (RICH) detector, for measurements of particle electric charge and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Barao , L. Arruda , J. Borges , P. Goncalves , M. Pimenta , I. Perez

We suggest that photons with energies between 5 and 10 MeV, generated by the ($\nu,\nu'p\gamma$) and ($\nu,\nu'n\gamma$) reactions on $^{16}$O, constitute a signal which allows a unique identification of supernova $\nu_\mu$ and $\nu_\tau$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Langanke , P. Vogel , E. Kolbe

T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, in which a muon neutrino beam is produced at J-PARC and detected 295 km away at the Super-Kamiokande detector. The T2K experiment observed electron-neutrino appearance in 2012. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-08-26 M. Ravonel Salzgeber

The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton water Cherenkov neutrino detector installed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. Its main physics goals are to perform a measurement of the neutron yield…

This article describes the physics and nonproliferation goals of WATCHMAN, the WAter Cherenkov Monitor for ANtineutrinos. The baseline WATCHMAN design is a kiloton scale gadolinium-doped (Gd) light water Cherenkov detector, placed 13…

We show that for recently discovered large values of theta(13), a superbeam with an average neutrino energy of ~ 5 GeV, such as those being proposed at CERN, if pointing to Super-Kamiokande (L = 8770 km), could reveal the neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Pilar Hernandez

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects GeV-to-PeV+ neutrinos via the Cherenkov light produced by secondary charged particles from neutrino interactions with the South Pole ice. The detector consists of over 5000 spherical Digital Optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tianlu Yuan

The atmospheric neutrino flux represents a continuous source that can be exploited to infer properties about Cosmic Rays and neutrino oscillation physics. The JUNO observatory, a 20 kt liquid scintillator currently under construction in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-08 G. Settanta , S. M. Mari , C. Martellini , P. Montini

The CMS apparatus was identified, a few years before the start of the LHC operation at CERN, to feature properties well suited to particle-flow (PF) reconstruction: a highly-segmented tracker, a fine-grained electromagnetic calorimeter, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-10 CMS Collaboration