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Several experimental collaborations worldwide intend to test sterile neutrino models by measuring the disappearance of antineutrinos produced via isotope decay at rest (IsoDAR). The most advanced of these proposals have very similar setups,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-22 Emilio Ciuffoli , Hosam Mohammed , Jarah Evslin , Fengyi Zhao , Maksym Deliyergiyev

With the ever increasing beam power at particle accelerator-based facilities for nuclear and particle physics, radioactive isotope production, and nuclear engineering, targets that can withstand this power, and shielding of secondary…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-05 Adriana Bungau , Jose Alonso , Roger Barlow , Larry Bartozsek , Janet Conrad , Michael Shaevitz , Joshua Spitz , Daniel Winklehner

In this paper we consider high-intensity source of electron antineutrinos from the production and subsequent decay of 8Li. It opens a wide range of possible searches for beyond standard model physics via studies of the inverse beta decay…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-15 Fengyi Zhao , Yao Li , Chengdong Han , Qiang Fu , Xurong Chen

The IsoDAR sterile-neutrino search requires a very high intensity neutrino source. For IsoDAR, this high intensity is produced using the high neutron flux from a 60 MeV, 10 mA proton beam striking a beryllium target that floods a sleeve of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Adriana Bungau , Jose Alonso , Larry Bartoszek , Janet M. Conrad , Edward Dunton , Michael H. Shaevitz

This whitepaper reviews design options for the IsoDAR electron antineutrino source. IsoDAR is designed to produce $2.6 \times 10^{22}$ electron antineutrinos per year with an average energy of 6.4 MeV, using isotope decay-at-rest. Aspects…

IsoDAR provides a pure and intense $\bar \nu_e$ source with an average energy of 6.5 MeV produced through $^8$Li $\beta$-decay. This source can be paired with a large scintillator detector, such as KamLAND, to produce a sample of $\bar…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-04-23 J. M. Conrad , M. H. Shaevitz , I. Shimizu , J. Spitz , M. Toups , L. Winslow

IsoDAR is an experiment under development to search for sterile neutrinos using the isotope Decay-At-Rest (DAR) production mechanism, where protons impinging on $^9$Be create neutrons which capture on $^7$Li which then beta-decays producing…

The IsoDAR antineutrino source, which produces a flux from 8Li isotope decay at rest, when paired with the proposed JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory) detector, has unprecedented sensitivity to anti-nu_e disappearance for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-03-19 J. M. Conrad , M. H. Shaevitz

IsoDAR seeks to place a high-power-cyclotron and target combination, as an intense source of $\bar{\nu}_e$ at the level of $\sim 10^{23}$/year, close to a kiloton-scale neutrino detector in order to gain sensitivity to very short-baseline…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-04-06 J. Alonso , C. A. Argüelles , A. Bungau , J. M. Conrad , B. Dutta , Y. D. Kim , E. Marzec , D. Mishins , S. H. Seo , M. Shaevitz , J. Spitz , A. Thompson , L. Waites , D. Winklehner

A new scheme for the short baseline electron antineutrino (${\bar{\nu}}_{e}$) disappearance study is investigated. We propose to use an intense neutron emitter, $^{252}$Cf, which produces $^{8}$Li isotope through the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-13 Jae Won Shin , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Toshitaka Kajino , Takehito Hayakawa

The antineutrinos of the neutron rich 8Li isotope is characterized by hard and good defined spectrum - averaged energy is 6.5 MeV and maximal - up to 13 MeV. An intensive antineutrino source with such parameters can be unique instrument for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-08 V. I. Lyashuk

Configurations of the IsoDAR and DAE{\delta}ALUS decay-at-rest neutrino experiments are described. Injector and cyclotron developments aimed at substantial increases in beam current are discussed. The IsoDAR layout and target are described,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-14 Jose R. Alonso

This paper introduces a novel, high-intensity source of electron antineutrinos from the production and subsequent decay of 8Li. When paired with an existing ~1 kton scintillator-based detector, this <E_\nu>=6.4 MeV source opens a wide range…

IsoDAR@Yemilab is a novel isotope-decay-at-rest experiment that has preliminary approval to run at the Yemi underground laboratory (Yemilab) in Jeongseon-gun, South Korea. In this technical report, we describe in detail the considerations…

The proposed high flux lithium antineutrino source is based on 7Li(n,g)8Li-activation and subsequent fast beta-decay (0.84 s) of the 8Li isotope with emission of hard antineutrinos with energy up to 13 MeV. In the discussed scheme the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-31 V. I. Lyashuk

The cyclotron designed for the IsoDAR neutrino source represents a paradigm shift in cyclotron performance -- a factor of 10 increase in beam current. This performance is required to develop a neutrino source of sufficient strength for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-16 Jose Alonso

Neutrino physics is a forefront topic of today's research. Large detectors installed underground study neutrino properties using neutrino beams from muons decaying in flight. DAEdALUS looks at neutrinos from stopped muons, "decay at rest"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Jose R. Alonso

An intensive antineutrino source with a hard spectrum (with energy up to 13 MeV, average energy 6.5 MeV) can be realized on the base of beta-decay of short living isotope 8Li (0.84 s). The 8Li isotope (generated in activation of 7Li…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-14 V. I. Lyashuk , Yu. S Lutostansky

This technical report reviews the tests performed at the Best Cyclotron Systems, Inc. facility in regards to developing a cost effective ion source, beam line transport system, and acceleration system capable of high H$_2^+$ current output…

Existence of hypothetical fourth neutrino, so-called sterile neutrino, is one of open issues in the particle and neutrino physics. This fourth neutrino is a candidate for explaining some anomalies reported in LSND, MiniBoone, reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-26 Jae Won Shin , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Toshitaka Kajino , Takehito Hayakawa
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