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Various groups have demonstrated that antineutrino monitoring can be successful in assessing the plutonium content in water-cooled nuclear reactors for nonproliferation applications. New reactor designs and concepts incorporate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-22 Oluwatomi A. Akindele , Adam Bernstein , Eric B. Norman

We discuss a small-scale experiment, called $\nu$-cleus, for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by probing nuclear-recoil energies down to the 10 eV-regime. The detector consists of low-threshold CaWO$_4$ and…

In this paper, we investigate the impact in future megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors of identifying proton Cherenkov rings. We estimate the expected event rates for detected neutral current and charged current quasi-elastic neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 M. Fechner , C. W. Walter

The resurgence of interest in nuclear power around the world highlights the importance of effective methods to safeguard against nuclear proliferation. Many powerful safeguarding techniques have been developed and are currently employed,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-26 Bryan Helz , Leia Barrowes , Igor Jovanovic , Dean Price , Brendan Kochunas , James D. Wells

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…

Modification of large water Cherenkov detectors by addition of gadolinium has been proposed. The large cross section for neutron capture on Gd will greatly improve the sensitivity to antielectron neutrinos from supernovae and reactors. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Atsuko Kibayashi

We propose a long-term strategy for detecting thermal neutrinos from the remnant of binary-neutron-star mergers with a future M-ton water-Cherenkov detector such as Hyper-Kamiokande. Monitoring >~2500 mergers within <~200 Mpc, we may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-07 Koutarou Kyutoku , Kazumi Kashiyama

The antineutrino detectors in the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment are liquid scintillator detectors designed to detect low energy particles from antineutrino interactions with high efficiency and low backgrounds. Since the antineutrino…

The High Energy Physics community can benefit from a natural synergy in research activities into next-generation large-scale water and scintillator neutrino detectors, now being studied for remote reactor monitoring, discovery and exclusion…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-22 T. Akindele , T. Anderson , E. Anderssen , M. Askins , M. Bohles , A. J. Bacon , Z. Bagdasarian , A. Baldoni , A. Barna , N. Barros , L. Bartoszek , A. Bat , E. W. Beier , T. Benson , M. Bergevin , A. Bernstein , B. Birrittella , E. Blucher , J. Boissevain , R. Bonventre , J. Borusinki , E. Bourret , D. Brown , E. J. Callaghan , J. Caravaca , M. Chen , D. F. Cowen , B. Crow , F. Dalnoki-Veress , D. Danielson , S. Dazeley , M. Diwan , Z. Djurcic , A. Druetzler , S. Dye , S. T. Dye , J. Eisch , A. Elagin , T. Enqvist , Andrew Erlandson , U. Fahrendholz , A. Fienberg , V. Fischer , K. Frankiewicz , M. V. Garzelli , D. Gooding , C. Graham , C. Grant , J. Griskevich , D. Guffanti , C. Hagner , A. Hallin , J. He , J. Hecla , C. M. Jackson , R. Jiang , I. Jovanovic , T. Kaptanoglu , M. Keenan , P. Keener , E. Kemp , J. R. Klein , Yu. G. Kolomensky , C. Kraus , F. Krennrich , T. Kroupa , P. Kunkle , T. Kutter , T. Lachenmaier , B. Land , K. Lande , J. Learned , J. G. Learned , L. Lebanowski , V. Li , V. A. Li , V. Lozza , L. Ludhova , Rupak Mahapatra , M. Malek , S. Manecki , J. Maneira , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , A. Marino , P. Marr-Laundrie , J. Martyn , A. Mastbaum , C. Mauger , M. Mayer , J. Migenda , J. Moore , F. Moretti , A. Mullen , J. Napolitano , B. Naranjo , S. Naugle , E. Neights , M. Newcomer , M. Nieslony , A. Nikolica , K. Nishimura , B. O'Meara , L. Oberauer , J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux , K. Ogren , G. D. Orebi Gann , J. Ouellet , L. Oxborough , A. Papatyi , B. Paulos , T. Pershing , S. T. Petcov , L. Pickard , G. Pronost , R. Rosero , J. Saba , L. Sabarots , M. C. Sanchez , J. Sawatzki , S. Schoppmann , J. Sensenig , S. H. Seo , S. Seo , V. Shebalin , M. Smiley , M. Smy , H. Song , A. Stahl , H. Steiger , M. R. Stock , F. Suekane , H. Sunej , F. Sutanto , R. Svoboda , E. Tiras , W. H. Trzaska , M. Tzanov , M. Vagins , R. Van Berg , G. Varner , V. Veeraraghavan , S. Ventura , C. Vilela , R. B. Vogelaar , B. Walsh , Z. Wang , J. Wang , W. Wang , G. Wendel , D. Westphal , M. Wetstein , A. Wilhelm , M. J. Wilking , L. Winslow , P. Wittich , S. Wolcott , B. Wonsak , E. Worcester , M. Wurm , G. Yang , M. Yeh , E. D. Zimmerman , S. Zsoldos , K. Zuber

In this study, the conceptual design and physics simulations of a near-field Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) detector placed 100 meters from the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP), currently under construction and aiming at being…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-07 Ayse Bat , Emrah Tiras , Vincent Fischer , Mirac Kamislioglu

The R&D mission of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is described in detail. ANNIE is: (1) an important measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions focusing specifically on neutron production, and (2) an R&D…

The nuGeN experiment searches for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. A 1.41-kg high-purity low-threshold germanium detector surrounded by active and passive shielding is deployed at the…

The PocketWATCH facility is a unique multi-purpose test bed designed to replicate the conditions of large water Cherenkov detectors. Housed at the University of Sheffield, the facility consists of a light-tight 2000L ultrapure water tank…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-15 Matthew Thiesse , Stephen T. Wilson , Jack Fannon , Matthew Malek , Jordan McElwee , Andrew Scarff , Lee F. Thompson

RED-100 is a two-phase emission detector with an active volume containing 126~kg of liquid xenon. The detector was exposed to the antineutrino flux of about $1.4 \cdot 10^{13}~$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ at a distance of 19~m from the 3.1~GW Kalinin…

Antineutrinos produced at nuclear reactors constitute a severe source of background for the detection of geoneutrinos, which bring to the Earth's surface information about natural radioactivity in the whole planet. In this framework we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 Marica Baldoncini , Ivan Callegari , Giovanni Fiorentini , Fabio Mantovani , Barbara Ricci , Virginia Strati , Gerti Xhixha

Used for both proton decay searches and neutrino physics, large water Cherenkov (WC) detectors have been very successful tools in particle physics. They are notable for their large masses and charged particle detection capabilities. While…

The current focus of the CERN program is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), however, CERN is engaged in long baseline neutrino physics with the CNGS project and supports T2K as recognized CERN RE13, and for good reasons: a number of observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 A. Rubbia

The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrino (CAP- TAIN) program is designed to make measurements of scientific importance to long-baseline neutrino physics and physics topics that will be explored by…

Today reactor neutrino experiments are at the cutting edge of fundamental research in particle physics. Understanding the neutrino is far from complete, but thanks to the impressive progress in this field over the last 15 years, a few…

The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and other rare interactions. It will operate a 50 t liquid xenon detector, with 40 t in the time projection chamber (TPC). To inform the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-25 L. Baudis , Y. Biondi , M. Galloway , F. Girard , A. Manfredini , N. McFadden , R. Peres , P. Sanchez-Lucas , K. Thieme