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Theia: A multi-purpose water-based liquid scintillator detector

Recent developments in the field of liquid scintillator chemistry and fast-timing photosensors paved the way for a new generation of large-scale detectors capable of tackling a broad range of physics issues. Water-based Liquid Scintillator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-18 Vincent Fischer

Assessing the accuracy of the GENIE event generator with electron-scattering data

Precision neutrino oscillation experiments of the future---of which DUNE is a prime example---require reliable event generator tools. The 1--4 GeV energy regime, in which DUNE will operate, is marked by the transition from the low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Artur M. Ankowski , Alexander Friedland

The neutron veto of the XENONnT experiment: Results with demineralized water

Radiogenic neutrons emitted by detector materials are one of the most challenging backgrounds for the direct search of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). To mitigate this background, the XENONnT…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-10 XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , K. Abe , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , D. Antón Martin , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , K. Boese , A. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Cai , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , A. P. Cimental Chávez , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. J. Cuenca-García , V. D'Andrea , L. C. Daniel Garcia , M. P. Decowski , A. Deisting , C. Di Donato , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , S. el Morabit , A. Elykov , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , T. Flehmke , M. Flierman , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , M. Galloway , F. Gao , S. Ghosh , R. Giacomobono , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , P. Gyorgy , R. Hammann , A. Higuera , C. Hils , L. Hoetzsch , N. F. Hood , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , J. Jakob , F. Joerg , Y. Kaminaga , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , M. Kobayashi , D. Koke , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , Y. -T. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , K. Liu , M. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Luce , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , E. Masson , S. Mastroianni , A. Melchiorre , J. Merz , M. Messina , A. Michael , K. Miuchi , A. Molinario , S. Moriyama , K. Morá , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Müller , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , B. Paetsch , Y. Pan , Q. Pellegrini , R. Peres , C. Peters , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , G. Plante , T. R. Pollmann , L. Principe , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , M. Rajado , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , S. Shi , J. Shi , M. Silva , H. Simgen , C. Szyszka , A. Takeda , Y. Takeuchi , P. -L. Tan , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. D. Tunnell , F. Tönnies , K. Valerius , S. Vecchi , S. Vetter , F. I. Villazon Solar , G. Volta , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , V. H. S. Wu , Y. Xing , D. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , L. Yang , J. Ye , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , M. Zhong

MicroBooNE, A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) Neutrino Experiment

Liquid Argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is a promising detector technology for future neutrino experiments. MicroBooNE is an upcoming LArTPC neutrino experiment which will be located on-axis of Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Teppei Katori

BooNE Has Begun

E898, the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, has begun data collection. The experiment will test the neutrino oscillation signal reported by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector at Los Alamos National…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 E. D. Zimmerman

The SHiP experiment at the proposed CERN SPS Beam Dump Facility

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has proposed a general-purpose experimental facility operating in beam-dump mode at the CERN SPS accelerator to search for light, feebly interacting particles. The SHiP experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-23 SHIP Collaboration

Enabling Intensity and Energy Frontier Science with a Muon Accelerator Facility in the U.S.: A White Paper Submitted to the 2013 U.S. Community Summer Study of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society

A staged approach towards muon based facilities for Intensity and Energy Frontier science, building upon existing and proposed facilities at Fermilab, is presented. At each stage, a facility exploring new physics also provides an R&D…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 J-P. Delahaye , C. Ankenbrandt , A. Bogacz , S. Brice , A. Bross , D. Denisov , E. Eichten , P. Huber , D. M. Kaplan , H. Kirk , R. Lipton , D. Neuffer , M. A. Palmer , R. Palmer , R. Ryne , P. Snopok

Simultaneous measurements of water optical properties by AC9 transmissometer and ASP-15 Inherent Optical Properties meter in Lake Baikal

Measurements of optical properties in media enclosing Cherenkov neutrino telescopes are important not only at the moment of the selection of an adequate site, but also for the continuous characterization of the medium as a function of time.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Balkanov et al. , A. Capone , R. Masullo , E. Migneco , M. Petruccetti , G. Riccobene

Light detection with power and signal transmission over fiber

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next generation long baseline (1300 km) neutrino oscillation experiment. The neutrino beam measurements will be performed by a near detector (ND) and far detector (FD). The far detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-01 H. V. Souza

Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

A significant challenge in measurements of neutrino oscillations is reconstructing the incoming neutrino energies. While modern fully-active tracking calorimeters such as liquid argon time projection chambers in principle allow the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-03 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , O. Alterkait , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , J. Y. Book , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , Y. Cao , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , R. Fine , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , Z. Imani , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , N. Kamp , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , H. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , K. Miller , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , W. Tang , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Neutrino detectors for future experiments

We review detector technologies which are currently considered for ultimate nucleon decay searches, new generation astrophysical neutrinos studies, and for future long-baseline neutrino experiments at new high-intensity neutrino beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rubbia

Physics with Beam Tau-Neutrino Appearance at DUNE

We explore the capabilities of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to measure $\nu_\tau$ charged-current interactions and the associated oscillation probability $P(\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau)$ at its far detector,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-17 André de Gouvêa , Kevin J. Kelly , G. V. Stenico , Pedro Pasquini

Beam-Induced Effects and Radiological Issues in High-Intensity High-Energy Fixed Target Experiments

The next generation of accelerators for Megawatt proton and heavy-ion beams moves us into a completely new domain of extreme specific energies of up to 0.1 MJ/g (Megajoule/gram) and specific power up to 1 TW/g (Terawatt/gram) in beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 N. V. Mokhov , S. R. Childress , A. I. Drozhdin , V. S. Pronskikh , D. Reitzner , I. S. Tropin , K. Vaziri

First Measurements of Beam Backgrounds at SuperKEKB

The high design luminosity of the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider is expected to result in challenging levels of beam-induced backgrounds in the interaction region. Properly simulating and mitigating these backgrounds is critical to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 P. M. Lewis , I. Jaegle , H. Nakayama , A. Aloisio , F. Ameli , M. Barrett , A. Beaulieu , L. Bosisio , P. Branchini , T. E. Browder , A. Budano , G. Cautero , C. Cecchi , Y. -T. Chen , K. -N. Chu , D. Cinabro , P. Cristaudo , S. de Jong , R. de Sangro , G. Finocchiaro , J. Flanagan , Y. Funakoshi , M. Gabriel , R. Giordano , D. Giuressi , M. T. Hedges , N. Honkanen , H. Ikeda , T. Ishibashi , H. Kaji , K. Kanazawa , C. Kiesling , S. Koirala , P. Križan , C. La Licata , L. Lanceri , J. -J. Liau , F. -H. Lin , J. -C. Lin , Z. Liptak , S. Longo , E. Manoni , C. Marinas , K. Miyabayashi , E. Mulyani , A. Morita , M. Nakao , M. Nayak , Y. Ohnishi , A. Passeri , P. Poffenberger , M. Ritzert , J M. Roney , A. Rossi , T. Röder , R. M. Seddon , I. S. Seong , J. -G. Shiu , F. Simon , Y. Soloviev , Y. Suetsugu , M. Szalay , S. Terui , G. Tortone , S. E. Vahsen , N. van der Kolk , L. Vitale , M. Z. Wang , H. Windel , S. Yokoyama

Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment

SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12m diameter acrylic vessel which will be filled with about 780…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-08 SNO+ Collaboration , : , S. Andringa , E. Arushanova , S. Asahi , M. Askins , D. J. Auty , A. R. Back , Z. Barnard , N. Barros , E. W. Beier , A. Bialek , S. D. Biller , E. Blucher , R. Bonventre , D. Braid , E. Caden , E. Callaghan , J. Caravaca , J. Carvalho , L. Cavalli , D. Chauhan , M. Chen , O. Chkvorets , K. Clark , B. Cleveland , I. T. Coulter , D. Cressy , X. Dai , C. Darrach , B. Davis-Purcell , R. Deen , M. M. Depatie , F. Descamps , F. Di Lodovico , N. Duhaime , F. Duncan , J. Dunger , E. Falk , N. Fatemighomi , R. Ford , P. Gorel , C. Grant , S. Grullon , E. Guillian , A. L. Hallin , D. Hallman , S. Hans , J. Hartnell , P. Harvey , M. Hedayatipour , W. J. Heintzelman , R. L. Helmer , B. Hreljac , J. Hu , T. Iida , C. M. Jackson , N. A. Jelley , C. Jillings , C. Jones , P. G. Jones , K. Kamdin , T. Kaptanoglu , J. Kaspar , P. Keener , P. Khaghani , L. Kippenbrock , J. R. Klein , R. Knapik , J. N. Kofron , L. L. Kormos , S. Korte , C. Kraus , C. B. Krauss , K. Labe , I. Lam , C. Lan , B. J. Land , S. Langrock , A. LaTorre , I. Lawson , G. M. Lefeuvre , E. J. Leming , J. Lidgard , X. Liu , Y. Liu , V. Lozza , S. Maguire , A. Maio , K. Majumdar , S. Manecki , J. Maneira , E. Marzec , A. Mastbaum , N. McCauley , A. B. McDonald , J. E. McMillan , P. Mekarski , C. Miller , Y. Mohan , E. Mony , M. J. Mottram , V. Novikov , H. M. O'Keeffe , E. O'Sullivan , G. D. Orebi Gann , M. J. Parnell , S. J. M. Peeters , T. Pershing , Z. Petriw , G. Prior , J. C. Prouty , S. Quirk , A. Reichold , A. Robertson , J. Rose , R. Rosero , P. M. Rost , J. Rumleskie , M. A. Schumaker , M. H. Schwendener , D. Scislowski , J. Secrest , M. Seddighin , L. Segui , S. Seibert , T. Shantz , T. M. Shokair , L. Sibley , J. R. Sinclair , K. Singh , P. Skensved , A. Soerensen , T. Sonley , R. Stainforth , M. Strait , M. I. Stringer , R. Svoboda , J. Tatar , L. Tian , N. Tolich , J. Tseng , H. W. C. Tseung , R. Van Berg , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , C. Virtue , B. von Krosigk , J. M. G. Walker , M. Walker , O. Wasalski , J. Waterfield , R. F. White , J. R. Wilson , T. J. Winchester , A. Wright , M. Yeh , T. Zhao , K. Zuber

Supernova burst and Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background simulator for Water Cherenkov Detectors

If a galactic supernova explosion occurs in the future, it will be critical to rapidly alert the community to the direction of the supernova by utilizing neutrino signals in order to enable the initiation of follow-up optical observations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Fumi Nakanishi , Shota Izumiyama , Masayuki Harada , Yusuke Koshio

CNNs for enhanced background discrimination in DSNB searches in large-scale water-Gd detectors

Gadolinium-loading of large water Cherenkov detectors is a prime method for the detection of the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB). While the enhanced neutron tagging capability greatly reduces single-event backgrounds,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-08 David Maksimović , Michael Nieslony , Michael Wurm

Search for an Anomalous Production of Charged-Current $\nu_e$ Interactions Without Visible Pions Across Multiple Kinematic Observables in MicroBooNE

This Letter presents an investigation of low-energy electron-neutrino interactions in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam by the MicroBooNE experiment, motivated by the excess of electron-neutrino-like events observed by the MiniBooNE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-16 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , D. Andrade Aldana , L. Arellano , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , A. Barnard , G. Barr , D. Barrow , J. Barrow , V. Basque , J. Bateman , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhat , M. Bhattacharya , M. Bishai , A. Blake , B. Bogart , T. Bolton , M. B. Brunetti , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , A. Chappell , Y. Chen , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , R. Cross , M. Del Tutto , S. R. Dennis , P. Detje , R. Diurba , Z. Djurcic , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , P. Englezos , A. Ereditato , J. J. Evans , C. Fang , B. T. Fleming , W. Foreman , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , F. Gao , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , L. Gu , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , M. D. Handley , O. Hen , C. Hilgenberg , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hussain , B. Irwin , M. S. Ismail , C. James , X. Ji , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , D. Kalra , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , N. Lane , J. -Y. Li , Y. Li , K. Lin , B. R. Littlejohn , L. Liu , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , T. Mahmud , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , N. Martinez , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , S. Martynenko , A. Mastbaum , I. Mawby , N. McConkey , L. Mellet , J. Mendez , J. Micallef , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , M. M. Moudgalya , S. Mulleria Babu , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , N. Nayak , M. Nebot-Guinot , C. Nguyen , J. Nowak , N. Oza , O. Palamara , N. Pallat , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , H. Parkinson , S. F. Pate , N. Patel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , K. Pletcher , I. Pophale , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , J. Rodriguez Rondon , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , I. Safa , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Shi , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , A. M. Szelc , N. Taniuchi , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , D. Torbunov , D. Totani , M. Toups , A. Trettin , Y. -T. Tsai , J. Tyler , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , B. Viren , J. Wang , M. Weber , H. Wei , A. J. White , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , K. Wresilo , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Neutral Current Pi0 Interactions at MiniBooNE

MiniBooNE, the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, will search for the appearance of electron neutrinos in a beam of muon neutrinos, and in the process will accumulate more neutrino interactions in the 0-2 GeV energy range than…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 J. L. Raaf

Neutrino oscillometry at the next generation neutrino observatory

The large next generation liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) offers an excellent opportunity for neutrino oscillometry. The characteristic spatial pattern of very low monoenergetic neutrino disappearance from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-14 Yu. N. Novikov , T. Enqvist , A. N. Erykalov , F. v. Feilitzsch , J. Hissa , K. Loo , D. A. Nesterenko , L. Oberauer , F. Thorne , W. Trzaska , J. D. Vergados , M. Wurm