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Expression of Interest for Neutrinos Scattering on Glass: NuSOnG

We propose a 3500 ton (3000 ton fiducial volume) SiO_2 neutrino detector with sampling calorimetry, charged particle tracking, and muon spectrometers to run in a Tevatron Fixed Target Program. Improvements to the Fermilab accelerator…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-07-29 NuSOnG Collaboration , T. Adams , L. Buge , J. M. Conrad , P. H. Fisher , J. A. Formaggio , A. de Gouvêa , W. A. Loinaz1 , G. Karagiorgi , T. R. Kobilarcik , S. Kopp , G. Kyle , D. A. Mason , R. Milner , J. G. Morfín , M. Nakamura , D. Naples , P. Nienaber , F. I Olness , J. F. Owens , W. G. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , H. Schellman , M. J. Syphers , C. Y. Tan , R. G. Van de Water , R. K. Yamamoto , G. P. Zeller

Design of a common verification board for different back-end electronics options of the JUNO experiment

The JUNO observatory is a medium baseline experiment in construction in China. A large liquid scintillator volume detects the antineutrinos issued from nuclear reactors. The liquid scintillator detector is instrumented with 17000 large…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 Yifan Yang , Barbara Clerbaux

The PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, PROSPECT, is designed to make both a precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from a highly-enriched uranium reactor and to probe eV-scale sterile neutrinos by searching for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-23 PROSPECT Collaboration , J. Ashenfelter , A. B. Balantekin , C. Baldenegro , H. R. Band , C. D. Bass , D. E. Bergeron , D. Berish , L. J. Bignell , N. S. Bowden , J. Boyle , J. Bricco , J. P. Brodsky , C. D. Bryan , A. Bykadorova Telles , J. J. Cherwinka , T. Classen , K. Commeford , A. Conant , A. A. Cox , D. Davee , D. Dean , G. Deichert , M. V. Diwan , M. J. Dolinski , A. Erickson , B. T. Foust , J. K. Gaison , A. Galindo-Uribarri , C. Gilbert , K. Gilje , A. Glenn , B. W. Goddard , B. Hackett , K. Han , S. Hans , A. B. Hansell , K. M. Heeger , B. Heffron , J. Insler , D. E. Jaffe , X. Ji , D. C. Jones , K. Koehler , O. Kyzylova , C. E. Lane , T. J. Langford , J. LaRosa , B. R. Littlejohn , F. Lopez , X. Lu , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , J. T. Matta , R. D. McKeown , M. P. Mendenhall , H. J. Miller , J. Minock , P. E. Mueller , H. P. Mumm , J. Napolitano , R. Neilson , J. A. Nikkel , D. Norcini , S. Nour , D. A . Pushin , X. Qian , E. Romero-Romero , R. Rosero , D. Sarenac , B. Seilhan , R. Sharma , P. T. Surukuchi , C. Trinh , M. A. Tyra , R. L. Varner , B. Viren , J. M. Wagner , W. Wang , B. White , C. White , J. Wilhelmi , T. Wise , H. Yao , M. Yeh , Y. -R. Yen , A. Zhang , C. Zhang , X. Zhang , M. Zhao

HyperCP: A high-rate spectrometer for the study of charged hyperon and kaon decays

The HyperCP experiment (Fermilab E871) was designed to search for rare phenomena in the decays of charged strange particles, in particular CP violation in $\Xi$ and $\Lambda$ hyperon decays with a sensitivity of $10^{-4}$. Intense charged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-02-18 HyperCP collaboration , R. A. Burnstein , A. Chakravorty , A. Chan , Y. C. Chen , W. -S. Choong , K. Clark , E. C. Dukes , C. Durandet , J. Felix , R. Fuzesy , G. Gidal , P. Gu , H. R. Gustafson , C. Ho , T. Holmstrom , M. Huang , C. James , C. M. Jenkins , T. D. Jones , D. M. Kaplan , L. M. Lederman , N. Leros , M. J. Longo , F. Lopez , L. C. Lu , W. Luebke , K. -B. Luk , K. S. Nelson , H. K. Park , J. -P. Perroud , D. Rajaram , H. A. Rubin , P. K. Teng , B. Turko , J. Volk , C. G. White , S. L. White , P. Zyla

Meson Spectroscopy at COMPASS

The COmmon Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy (COMPASS) is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. The two-stage…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Boris Grube

Hunting for CDF Multi-Muon "Ghost" Events at Collider and Fixed-Target Experiments

In 2008 the CDF collaboration discovered a large excess of events containing two or more muons, at least one of which seemed to have been produced outside the beam pipe. We investigate whether similar "ghost" events could (and should) have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-03 Nicki Bornhauser , Manuel Drees

The Radioactive Source Calibration System of the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Detector

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum (PROSPECT) Experiment is a reactor neutrino experiment designed to search for sterile neutrinos with a mass on the order of 1 eV/c$^2$ and to measure the spectrum of electron antineutrinos from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-19 PROSPECT Collaboration , J. Ashenfelter , A. B. Balantekin , H. R. Band , C. D. Bass , D. E. Bergeron , D. Berish , N. S. Bowden , J. P. Brodsky , C. D. Bryan , J. J. Cherwinka , T. Classen , A. J. Conant , D. Dean , G. Deichert , M. V. Diwan , M. J. Dolinski , A. Erickson , B. T. Foust , M. Febbraro , J. K. Gaison , A. Galindo-Uribarri , C. E. Gilbert , B. T. Hackett , S. Hans , A. B. Hansell , K. M. Heeger , J. Insler , D. E. Jaffe , D. C. Jones , O. Kyzylova , C. E. Lane , T. J. Langford , J. LaRosa , B. R. Littlejohn , X. Lu , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , J. T. Matta , R. D. McKeown , M. P. Mendenhall , P. E. Mueller , H. P. Mumm , J. Napolitano , R. Neilson , J. A. Nikkel , D. Norcini , S. Nour , D. A. Pushin , X. Qian , E. Romero-Romero , R. Rosero , D. Sarenac , P. T. Surukuchi , A. B. Telles , M. A. Tyra , R. L. Varner , B. Viren , C. White , J. Wilhelmi , T. Wise , M. Yeh , Y. -R. Yen , A. Zhang , C. Zhang , X. Zhang

Measurement of the muon flux for the SHiP experiment

The SHiP experiment will search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 \GeV/$c$ proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. About $10^{11}$ muons per spill will be produced in the dump. To design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-15 SHiP Collaboration

Muon shower vertex reconstruction with waveform information in JUNO

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton liquid scintillator detector currently being built in a dedicated underground laboratory in China. It is a multi-purpose underground experiment with a physics program…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-02 Yongpeng Zhang

The active muon shield in the SHiP experiment

The SHiP experiment is designed to search for very weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model which are produced in a 400 GeV/c proton beam dump at the CERN SPS. An essential task for the experiment is to keep the Standard Model…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-19 SHiP collaboration , A. Akmete , A. Alexandrov , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , E. Atkin , N. Azorskiy , J. J. Back , A. Bagulya , A. Baranov , G. J. Barker , A. Bay , V. Bayliss , G. Bencivenni , A. Y. Berdnikov , Y. A. Berdnikov , M. Bertani , C. Betancourt , I. Bezshyiko , O. Bezshyyko , D. Bick , S. Bieschke , A. Blanco , J. Boehm , M. Bogomilov , K. Bondarenko , W. M. Bonivento , A. Boyarsky , R. Brenner , D. Breton , R. Brundler , M. Bruschi , V. Büscher , A. Buonaura , S. Buontempo , S. Cadeddu , A. Calcaterra , M. Campanelli , J. Chauveau , A. Chepurnov , M. Chernyavsky , K. -Y. Choi , A. Chumakov , P. Ciambrone , G. M. Dallavalle , N. D'Ambrosio , G. D'Appollonio , G. De Lellis , A. De Roeck , M. De Serio , L. Dedenko , A. Di Crescenzo , N. Di Marco , C. Dib , H. Dijkstra , V. Dmitrenko , D. Domenici , S. Donskov , A. Dubreuil , J. Ebert , T. Enik , A. Etenko , F. Fabbri , L. Fabbri , O. Fedin , G. Fedorova , G. Felici , M. Ferro-Luzzi , R. A. Fini , P. Fonte , C. Franco , T. Fukuda , G. Galati , G. Gavrilov , S. Gerlach , L. Golinka-Bezshyyko , D. Golubkov , A. Golutvin , D. Gorbunov , S. Gorbunov , V. Gorkavenko , Y. Gornushkin , M. Gorshenkov , V. Grachev , E. Graverini , V. Grichine , A. M. Guler , Yu. Guz , C. Hagner , H. Hakobyan , E. van Herwijnen , A. Hollnagel , B. Hosseini , M. Hushchyn , G. Iaselli , A. Iuliano , R. Jacobsson , M. Jonker , I. Kadenko , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , M. Khabibullin , G. Khaustov , A. Khotyantsev , S. H. Kim , V. Kim , Y. G. Kim , N. Kitagawa , J. -W. Ko , K. Kodama , A. Kolesnikov , D. I. Kolev , V. Kolosov , M. Komatsu , N. Konovalova , M. A. Korkmaz , I. Korol , I. Korol'ko , A. Korzenev , S. Kovalenko , I. Krasilnikova , K. Krivova , Y. Kudenko , V. Kurochka , E. Kuznetsova , H. M. Lacker , A. Lai , G. Lanfranchi , O. Lantwin , A. Lauria , H. Lebbolo , K. Y. Lee , J. -M. Lévy , V. Likacheva , L. Lopes , V. Lyubovitskij , J. Maalmi , A. Magnan , V. Maleev , A. Malinin , A. Mefodev , P. Mermod , S. Mikado , Yu. Mikhaylov , D. A. Milstead , O. Mineev , A. Montanari , M. C. Montesi , K. Morishima , S. Movchan , N. Naganawa , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , A. Novikov , B. Obinyakov , S. Ogawa , N. Okateva , P. H. Owen , A. Paoloni , B. D. Park , L. Paparella , A. Pastore , M. Patel , D. Pereyma , D. Petrenko , K. Petridis , D. Podgrudkov , V. Poliakov , N. Polukhina , M. Prokudin , A. Prota , A. Rademakers , F. Ratnikov , T. Rawlings , M. Razeti , F. Redi , S. Ricciardi , T. Roganova , A. Rogozhnikov , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , T. Rovelli , O. Ruchayskiy , T. Ruf , V. Samoylenko , A. Saputi , O. Sato , E. S. Savchenko , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , N. Serra , A. Shakin , M. Shaposhnikov , P. Shatalov , T. Shchedrina , L. Shchutska , V. Shevchenko , H. Shibuya , A. Shustov , S. B. Silverstein , S. Simone , M. Skorokhvatov , S. Smirnov , J. Y. Sohn , A. Sokolenko , N. Starkov , B. Storaci , P. Strolin , S. Takahashi , I. Timiryasov , V. Tioukov , N. Tosi , D. Treille , R. Tsenov , S. Ulin , A. Ustyuzhanin , Z. Uteshev , G. Vankova-Kirilova , F. Vannucci , P. Venkova , S. Vilchinski , M. Villa , K. Vlasik , A. Volkov , R. Voronkov , R. Wanke , J. -K. Woo , M. Wurm , S. Xella , D. Yilmaz , A. U. Yilmazer , C. S. Yoon , Yu. Zaytsev

Dark Matter Search in Nucleon, Pion, and Electron Channels from a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

A search for sub-GeV dark matter produced from collisions of the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster protons with a steel beam dump was performed by the MiniBooNE-DM Collaboration using data from $1.86 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in a dedicated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-01 DM Collaboration , A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo , M. Backfish , A. Bashyal , B. Batell , B. C. Brown , R. Carr , A. Chatterjee , R. L. Cooper , P. deNiverville , R. Dharmapalan , Z. Djurcic , R. Ford , F. G. Garcia , G. T. Garvey , J. Grange , J. A. Green , E. -C. Huang , W. Huelsnitz , I. L. de Icaza Astiz , G. Karagiorgi , T. Katori , W. Ketchum , T. Kobilarcik , Q. Liu , W. C. Louis , W. Marsh , C. D. Moore , G. B. Mills , J. Mirabal , P. Nienaber , Z. Pavlovic , D. Perevalov , H. Ray , B. P. Roe , M. H. Shaevitz , S. Shahsavarani , I. Stancu , R. Tayloe , C. Taylor , R. T. Thornton , R. G. Van de Water , W. Wester , D. H. White , J. Yu

Searches in Photon and Jet States

We present recent results from the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and D0 experiments using data from proton-antiproton collisions with sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV at Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. New physics may appear in events with high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Soha

Measurement of cosmic-ray muon spallation products in a xenon-loaded liquid scintillator with KamLAND

Cosmic-ray muons produce various radioisotopes when passing through material. These spallation products can be backgrounds for rare event searches such as in solar neutrino, double-beta decay, and dark matter search experiments. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 Zen Collaboration , S. Abe , S. Asami , M. Eizuka , S. Futagi , A. Gando , Y. Gando , T. Gima , A. Goto , T. Hachiya , K. Hata , K. Hosokawa , K. Ichimura , S. Ieki , H. Ikeda , K. Inoue , K. Ishidoshiro , Y. Kamei , N. Kawada , Y. Kishimoto , M. Koga , M. Kurasawa , T. Mitsui , H. Miyake , T. Nakahata , K. Nakamura , R. Nakamura , H. Ozaki , T. Sakai , I. Shimizu , J. Shirai , K. Shiraishi , A. Suzuki , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeuchi , K. Tamae , H. Watanabe , Y. Yoshida , S. Obara , A. K. Ichikawa , S. Yoshida , S. Umehara , K. Fushimi , K. Kotera , Y. Urano , B. E. Berger , B. K. Fujikawa , J. G. Learned , J. Maricic , S. N. Axani , Z. Fu , J. Smolsky , L. A. Winslow , Y. Efremenko , H. J. Karwowski , D. M. Markoff , W. Tornow , S. Dell'Oro , T. O'Donnell , J. A. Detwiler , S. Enomoto , M. P. Decowski , K. Weerman , C. Grant , A. Li , H. Song

First measurements of deuteron production spectra in p+p collisions at beam momentum of 158 GeV/c at NA61/SHINE

The NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) scans particle production in collisions of nuclei with various sizes at a set of energies covering the SPS energy range towards various physics goals. This paper…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-25 Anirvan Shukla

First search for short-baseline neutrino oscillations at HFIR with PROSPECT

This Letter reports the first scientific results from the observation of antineutrinos emitted by fission products of $^{235}$U at the High Flux Isotope Reactor. PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, consists…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-26 J. Ashenfelter , A. B. Balantekin , C. Baldenegro , H. R. Band , C. D. Bass , D. E. Bergeron , D. Berish , L. J. Bignell , N. S. Bowden , J. Bricco , J. P. Brodsky , C. D. Bryan , A. Bykadorova Telles , J. J. Cherwinka , T. Classen , K. Commeford , A. J. Conant , A. A. Cox , D. Davee , D. Dean , G. Deichert , M. V. Diwan , M. J. Dolinski , A. Erickson , M. Febbraro , B. T. Foust , J. K. Gaison , A. Galindo-Uribarri , C. E. Gilbert , K. E. Gilje , A. Glenn , B. W. Goddard , B. T. Hackett , K. Han , S. Hans , A. B. Hansell , K. M. Heeger , B. Heffron , J. Insler , D. E. Jaffe , X. Ji , D. Jones , K. Koehler , O. Kyzylova , C. E. Lane , T. J. Langford , J. LaRosa , B. R. Littlejohn , F. Lopez , X. Lu , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , J. Matta , R. D. McKeown , M. P. Mendenhall , H. J. Miller , J. M. Minock , P. E. Mueller , H. P. Mumm , J. Napolitano , R. Neilson , J. A. Nikkel , D. Norcini , S. Nour , D. A. Pushin , X. Qian , E. Romero-Romero , R. Rosero , D. Sarenac , B. S. Seilhan , R. Sharma , P. T. Surukuchi , C. Trinh , M. A. Tyra , R. L. Varner , B. Viren , J. M. Wagner , W. Wang , B. White , C. White , J. Wilhelmi , T. Wise , H. Yao , M. Yeh , Y. R. Yen , A. Zhang , C. Zhang , X. Zhang , M. Zhao

Testing the surface detector simulation for the Pierre Auger Observatory

The building block of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is a water Cherenkov tank. The response to shower particles is simulated using a dedicated program based on GEANT4. To check the simulation chain, we compare the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Piera L. Ghia

Impact of SeaQuest data on PDF fits at large $x$

We evaluate the impact of recent SeaQuest (E906 experiment) data on dimuon production in proton-deuteron and proton-proton collisions on parton distribution functions (PDFs). We find these data in a good agreement with the QCD predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-20 S. Alekhin , M. V. Garzelli , S. Kulagin , S. -O. Moch

The PROSPECT Physics Program

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, PROSPECT, is designed to make a precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from a highly-enriched uranium reactor and probe eV-scale sterile neutrinos by searching for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 J. Ashenfelter , B. Balantekin , H. R. Band , G. Barclay , C. D. Bass , D. Berish , N. S. Bowden , A. Bowes , C. D. Bryan , J. P. Brodsky , J. J. Cherwinka , R. Chu , T. Classen , K. Commeford , D. Davee , D. Dean , G. Deichert , M. V. Diwan , M. J. Dolinski , J. Dolph , J. K. Gaison , A. Galindo-Uribarri , K. Gilje , A. Glenn , B. W. Goddard , M. Green , K. Han , S. Hans , K. M. Heeger , B. Heffron , D. E. Jaffe , D. Jones , T. J. Langford , B. R. Littlejohn , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , R. D. McKeown , M. P. Mendenhall , P. Mueller , H. P. Mumm , J. Napolitano , R. Neilson , D. Norcini , D. Pushin , X. Qian , E. Romero , R. Rosero , B. S. Seilhan , R. Sharma , S. Sheets , P. T. Surukuchi , R. L. Varner , B. Viren , W. Wang , B. White , C. White , J. Wilhelmi , C. Williams , T. Wise , H. Yao , M. Yeh , Y. -R. Yen , G. Zangakis , C. Zhang , X. Zhang

The JSNS^2 Detector

The JSNS^2 (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) experiment aims to search for oscillations involving a sterile neutrino in the eV^2 mass-splitting range. The experiment will search for the appearance of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-15 S. Ajimura , M. Botran , J. H. Choi , J. W. Choi , M. K. Cheoun , T. Dodo , H. Furuta , J. Goh , K. Haga , M. Harada , S. Hasegawa , Y. Hino , T. Hiraiwa , H. I. Jang , J. S. Jang , M. C. Jang , H. Jeon , S. Jeon , K. K. Joo , J. R. Jordan , D. E. Jung , S. K. Kang , Y. Kasugai , T. Kawasaki , E. J. Kim , J. Y. Kim , S. B. Kim , W. Kim , H. Kinoshita , T. Konno , D. H. Lee , S. Lee , I. T. Lim , E. Marzec , T. Maruyama , S. Masuda , S. Meigo , S. Monjushiro , D. H. Moon , T. Nakano , M. Niiyama , K. Nishikawa , M. Nomachi , M. Y. Pac , J. S. Park , S. J. M. Peeters , H. Ray , G. Roellinghoff , C. Rott , K. Sakai , S. Sakamoto , T. Shima , C. D. Shin , J. Spitz , I. Stancu , Y. Sugaya , F. Suekane , K. Suzuya , M. Taira , R. Ujiie , Y. Yamaguchi , M. Yeh , I. S. Yeo , C. Yoo , I. Yu , A. Zohaib

Precise Measurement of Dimuon Production Cross-Sections in muon neutrino Fe and muon antineutrino Fe Deep Inelastic Scattering at the Tevatron

We present measurements of the semi-inclusive cross-sections for muon neutrino and muon antineutrino-nucleon deep inelastic scattering interactions with two oppositely charged muons in the final state. These events dominantly arise from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 NuTeV Collaboration , M. Goncharov , P. Spentzouris