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The physics impact of proton track identification in future megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors

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

Future Advances in Photon-Based Neutrino Detectors: A SNOWMASS White Paper

We discuss here new, enabling technologies for future photon-based neutrino detectors. These technologies touch nearly every aspect of such detectors: new scintillating materials, new methods of loading isotopes, new photon sensors and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-16 Joshua R. Klein , Tomi Akindele , Adam Bernstein , Steven Biller , Nathaniel Bowden , Jason Brodsky , D. F. Cowen , Michael Ford , Julieta Gruszko , Logan Lebenowski , Aobo Li , Viacheslav A. Li , Wei Mu , J. Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux , Gabriel D. Orebi Gann , Mayly Sanchez , Robert Svoboda , Matthew Wetstein , Michael Wurm , Minfang Yeh

The LED calibration systems for the mDOM and D-Egg sensor modules of the IceCube Upgrade

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, instrumenting about 1 km$^3$ of deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole, is due to be enhanced with the IceCube Upgrade. The IceCube Upgrade, to be deployed during the 2025/26 Antarctic summer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 R. Abbasi , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , S. K. Agarwalla , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , J. M. Alameddine , S. Ali , N. M. Amin , K. Andeen , C. Argüelles , Y. Ashida , S. Athanasiadou , S. N. Axani , R. Babu , X. Bai , J. Baines-Holmes , A. Balagopal V. , S. W. Barwick , S. Bash , V. Basu , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , J. Becker Tjus , P. Behrens , J. Beise , C. Bellenghi , B. Benkel , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , E. Blaufuss , L. Bloom , S. Blot , I. Bodo , F. Bontempo , J. Y. Book Motzkin , C. Boscolo Meneguolo , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , J. Braun , B. Brinson , Z. Brisson-Tsavoussis , R. T. Burley , D. Butterfield , M. A. Campana , K. Carloni , J. Carpio , S. Chattopadhyay , N. Chau , Z. Chen , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , A. Coleman , P. Coleman , G. H. Collin , D. A. Coloma Borja , A. Connolly , J. M. Conrad , R. Corley , D. F. Cowen , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , D. Delgado , T. Delmeulle , S. Deng , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , T. DeYoung , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , S. DiKerby , M. Dittmer , A. Domi , L. Draper , L. Dueser , D. Durnford , K. Dutta , M. A. DuVernois , T. Ehrhardt , L. Eidenschink , A. Eimer , P. Eller , E. Ellinger , D. Elsässer , R. Engel , H. Erpenbeck , W. Esmail , S. Eulig , J. Evans , P. A. Evenson , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , K. Farrag , A. R. Fazely , A. Fedynitch , N. Feigl , C. Finley , L. Fischer , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , S. Fukami , P. Fürst , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , A. Garcia , M. Garcia , G. Garg , E. Genton , L. Gerhardt , A. Ghadimi , C. Glaser , T. Glüsenkamp , J. G. Gonzalez , S. Goswami , A. Granados , D. Grant , S. J. Gray , M. Gravois , S. Griffin , S. Griswold , K. M. Groth , D. Guevel , C. Günther , P. Gutjahr , C. Ha , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , L. Halve , F. Halzen , L. Hamacher , M. Ha Minh , M. Handt , K. Hanson , J. Hardin , A. A. Harnisch , P. Hatch , A. Haungs , J. Häußler , K. Helbing , J. Hellrung , B. Henke , L. Hennig , F. Henningsen , L. Heuermann , R. Hewett , N. Heyer , S. Hickford , A. Hidvegi , C. Hill , G. C. Hill , R. Hmaid , K. D. Hoffman , D. Hooper , S. Hori , K. Hoshina , M. Hostert , W. Hou , T. Huber , K. Hultqvist , K. Hymon , A. Ishihara , W. Iwakiri , M. Jacquart , S. Jain , O. Janik , M. Jansson , M. Jeong , M. Jin , N. Kamp , D. Kang , W. Kang , X. Kang , A. Kappes , L. Kardum , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , A. Katil , M. Kauer , J. L. Kelley , M. Khanal , A. Khatee Zathul , A. Kheirandish , H. Kimku , J. Kiryluk , C. Klein , S. R. Klein , Y. Kobayashi , A. Kochocki , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , T. Kontrimas , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , P. Koundal , M. Kowalski , T. Kozynets , N. Krieger , J. Krishnamoorthi , T. Krishnan , K. Kruiswijk , E. Krupczak , A. Kumar , E. Kun , N. Kurahashi , E. A. Kurt , N. Lad , C. Lagunas Gualda , L. Lallement Arnaud , M. Lamoureux , M. J. Larson , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , K. Leonard DeHolton , A. Leszczyńska , J. Liao , C. Lin , Y. T. Liu , M. Liubarska , C. Love , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , W. Luszczak , Y. Lyu , J. Madsen , E. Magnus , Y. Makino , E. Manao , S. Mancina , A. Mand , I. C. Mariş , S. Marka , Z. Marka , L. Marten , I. Martinez-Soler , R. Maruyama , J. Mauro , F. Mayhew , F. McNally , J. V. Mead , K. Meagher , S. Mechbal , A. Medina , M. Meier , Y. Merckx , L. Merten , T. Meures , J. Mitchell , L. Molchany , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , Y. Morii , A. Mosbrugger , M. Moulai , D. Mousadi , E. Moyaux , T. Mukherjee , R. Naab , M. Nakos , U. Naumann , J. Necker , L. Neste , M. Neumann , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , K. Noda , A. Noell , A. Novikov , A. Obertacke Pollmann , V. O'Dell , A. Olivas , R. Orsoe , J. Osborn , E. O'Sullivan , V. Palusova , H. Pandya , A. Pare<nti , N. Park , V. Parrish , E. N. Paudel , L. Paul , C. Pérez de los Heros , T. Pernice , J. Peterson , M. Plum , A. Pontén , V. Poojyam , Y. Popovych , M. Prado Rodriguez , B. Pries , R. Procter-Murphy , G. T. Przybylski , L. Pyras , C. Raab , J. Rack-Helleis , N. Rad , M. Ravn , K. Rawlins , Z. Rechav , A. Rehman , I. Reistroffer , E. Resconi , S. Reusch , C. D. Rho , W. Rhode , L. Ricca , B. Riedel , A. Rifaie , E. J. Roberts , S. Robertson , M. Rongen , A. Rosted , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , L. Ruohan , D. Ryckbosch , J. Saffer , D. Salazar-Gallegos , P. Sampathkumar , A. Sandrock , P. Sandstrom , G. Sanger-Johnson , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , J. Savelberg , M. Scarnera , P. Schaile , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , S. Schindler , L. Schlickmann , B. Schlüter , F. Schlüter , N. Schmeisser , T. Schmidt , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , K. Schunter , S. Schwirn , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , L. Seen , M. Seikh , S. Seunarine , P. A. Sevle Myhr , R. Shah , S. Shefali , N. Shimizu , B. Skrzypek , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , A. Søgaard , D. Soldin , P. Soldin , G. Sommani , C. Spannfellner , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , J. Stachurska , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , T. Stezelberger , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , K. -H. Sulanke , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , A. Thakuri , P. Theobald , M. Thiesmeyer , W. G. Thompson , J. Thwaites , S. Tilav , K. Tollefson , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , P. Trevarrow , A. Trettin , A. K. Upadhyay , K. Upshaw , A. Vaidyanathan , N. Valtonen-Mattila , J. Valverde , J. Vandenbroucke , T. Van Eeden , N. van Eijndhoven , L. Van Rootselaar , J. van Santen , J. Vara , F. Varsi , M. Venugopal , M. Vereecken , S. Vergara Carrasco , S. Verpoest , D. Veske , A. Vijai , J. Villarreal , C. Walck , A. Wang , E. H. S. Warrick , C. Weaver , P. Weigel , A. Weindl , J. Weldert , A. Y. Wen , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , M. Weyrauch , N. Whitehorn , C. H. Wiebusch , D. R. Williams , L. Witthaus , M. Wolf , G. Wrede , X. W. Xu , J. P. Yanez , Y. Yao , E. Yildizci , S. Yoshida , R. Young , F. Yu , S. Yu , T. Yuan , A. Zegarelli , S. Zhang , Z. Zhang , P. Zhelnin , P. Zilberman

Calibration of the Super-Kamiokande Detector

Procedures and results on hardware level detector calibration in Super-Kamiokande (SK) are presented in this paper. In particular, we report improvements made in our calibration methods for the experimental phase IV in which new readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-23 K. Abe , Y. Hayato , T. Iida , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kishimoto , Y. Koshio , Ll. Marti , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakano , S. Nakayama , Y. Obayashi , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , Y. Takenaga , H. Tanaka , T. Tomura , K. Ueno , R. A. Wendell , T. Yokozawa , T. J. Irvine , H. Kaji , T. Kajita , K. Kaneyuki , K. P. Lee , Y. Nishimura , K. Okumura , T. McLachlan , L. Labarga , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , S. Berkman , H. A. Tanaka , S. Tobayama , M. Goldhaber , K. Bays , G. Carminati , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , J. S. Jang , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , N. Hong , T. Akiri , J. B. Albert , A. Himmel , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , T. Ishizuka , S. Tasaka , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , K. Nishikawa , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , K. Huang , K. Ieki , M. Ikeda , T. Kikawa , H. Kubo , A. Minamino , A. Murakami , T. Nakaya , M. Otani , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , Y. Fukuda , K. Choi , Y. Itow , G. Mitsuka , M. Miyake , P. Mijakowski , R. Tacik , J. Hignight , J. Imber , C. K. Jung , I. Taylor , C. Yanagisawa , Y. Idehara , H. Ishino , A. Kibayashi , T. Mori , M. Sakuda , R. Yamaguchi , T. Yano , Y. Kuno , S. B. Kim , B. S. Yang , H. Okazawa , Y. Choi , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , Y. Totsuka , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , M. R. Vagins , J. F. Martin , P. de Perio , A. Konaka , M. J. Wilking , S. Chen , Y. Heng , H. Sui , Z. Yang , H. Zhang , Y. Zhenwei , K. Connolly , M. Dziomba , R. J. Wilkes

Using Fast Photosensors in Water Cherenkov Neutrino Detectors

Many of the yet unanswered questions in neutrino physics, such as CP violation in the lepton sector or neutrino mass hierarchy, could be answered with higher sensitivity neutrino experiments. New photodetectors based on micro-channel plates…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-11 Ioana Anghel

Combined Pre-Supernova Alert System with Kamland and Super-Kamiokande

Preceding a core-collapse supernova, various processes produce an increasing amount of neutrinos of all flavors characterized by mounting energies from the interior of massive stars. Among them, the electron antineutrinos are potentially…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-09-27 KamLAND , Super-Kamiokande Collaborations , : , Seisho Abe , Minori Eizuka , Sawako Futagi , Azusa Gando , Yoshihito Gando , Shun Goto , Takahiko Hachiya , Kazumi Hata , Koichi Ichimura , Sei Ieki , Haruo Ikeda , Kunio Inoue , Koji Ishidoshiro , Yuto Kamei , Nanami Kawada , Yasuhiro Kishimoto , Masayuki Koga , Maho Kurasawa , Tadao Mitsui , Haruhiko Miyake , Daisuke Morita , Takeshi Nakahata , Rika Nakajima , Kengo Nakamura , Rikuo Nakamura , Ryo Nakamura , Jun Nakane , Hideyoshi Ozaki , Keita Saito , Taichi Sakai , Itaru Shimizu , Junpei Shirai , Kensuke Shiraishi , Ryunosuke Shoji , Atsuto Suzuki , Atsuto Takeuchi , Kyoko Tamae , Hiroko Watanabe , Kazuho Watanabe , Sei Yoshida , Saori Umehara , Ken-Ichi Fushimi , Kenta Kotera , Yusuke Urano , Bruce E. Berger , Brian K. Fujikawa , John G. Larned , Jelena Maricic , Zhenghao Fu , Joseph Smolsky , Lindley A. Winslow , Yuri Efremenko , Hugon J. Karwowski , Diane M. Markoff , Werner Tornow , Stefano Dell'Oro , Thomas O'Donnell , Jason A. Detwiler , Sanshiro Enomoto , Michal P. Decowski , Kelly M. Weerman , Christopher Grant , Hasung Song , Aobo Li , Spencer N. Axani , Miles Garcia , Ko Abe , Seisho Abe , Christophe Bronner , Yoshinari Hayato , Katsuki Hiraide , Keishi Hosokawa , Kei Ieki , Motoyasu Ikeda , June Kameda , Yuki Kanemura , Ryota Kaneshima , Yuri Kashiwagi , Yousuke Kataoka , Shintaro Miki , Shunichi Mine , Makoto Miura , Shigetaka Moriyama , Masayuki Nakahata , Yuuki Nakano , Shoei Nakayama , Yohei Noguchi , Kazufumi Sato , Hiroyuki Sekiya , Hayato Shiba , Kotaro Shimizu , Masato Shiozawa , Yutaro Sonoda , Yoichiro Suzuki , Atsushi Takeda , Yasuhiro Takemoto , Hidekazu K. Tanaka , Takatomi Yano , Seungho Han , Takaaki Kajita , Kimihiro Okumura , Takuya Tashiro , Takuya Tomiya , Xubin Wang , Shunsuke Yoshida , Pablo Fernandez , Luis Labarga , Nataly Ospina , Bryan Zaldivar , Barry W. Pointon , Edward Kearns , Jennifer L. Raaf , Linyan Wan , Thomas Wester , Jianming Bian , Jeff Griskevich , Michael B. Smy , Henry W. Sobel , Volodymyr Takhistov , Alejandro Yankelevich , James Hill , MinCheol Jang , Seonghak Lee , DongHo Moon , RyeongGyoon Park , Baran Bodur , Kate Scholberg , Chris W. Walter , Antoine Beauchêne , Olivier Drapier , Alberto Giampaolo , Thomas A. Mueller , Andrew D. Santos , Pascal Paganini , Benjamin Quilain , Rudolph Rogly , Taku Nakamura , Jee-Seung Jang , Lucas N. Machado , John G. Learned , Koun Choi , Nadege Iovine , Son V. Cao , Lauren H. V. Anthony , Daniel G. R. Martin , Nick W. Prouse , Mark Scott , Yoshi Uchida , Vincenzo Berardi , Nicola F. Calabria , M. G. Catanesi , Emilio Radicioni , Aurora Langella , Gianfranca de Rosa , Gianmaria Collazuol , Matteo Feltre , Fabio Iacob , Marco Mattiazzi , Lucio Ludovici , Michel Gonin , Lorenzo Périssé , Guillaume Pronost , Chiori Fujisawa , Shogo Horiuchi , Misaki Kobayashi , Yu-Ming Liu , Yuto Maekawa , Yasuhiro Nishimura , Reo Okazaki , Ryosuke Akutsu , Megan Friend , Takuya Hasegawa , Taku Ishida , Takashi Kobayashi , Mahesh Jakkapu , Tsunayuki Matsubara , Takeshi Nakadaira , Kenzo Nakamura , Yuichi Oyama , Ken Sakashita , Tetsuro Sekiguchi , Toshifumi Tsukamoto , Antoniosk Portocarrero Yrey , Nahid Bhuiyan , George T. Burton , Francesca Di Lodovico , Joanna Gao , Alexander Goldsack , Teppei Katori , Jost Migenda , Rory M. Ramsden , Zhenxiong Xie , Stephane Zsoldos , Atsumu T. Suzuki , Yusuke Takagi , Yasuo Takeuchi , Haiwen Zhong , Jiahui Feng , Li-Cheng Feng , Jianrun Hu , Zhuojun Hu , Masaki Kawaue , Tatsuya Kikawa , Masamitsu Mori , Tsuyoshi Nakaya , Roger A. Wendell , Kenji Yasutome , Sam J. Jenkins , Neil K. McCauley , Pruthvi Mehta , Adam Tarrant , Mike J. Wilking , Yoshiyuki Fukuda , Yoshitaka Itow , Hiroaki Menjo , Kotaro Ninomiya , Yushi Yoshioka , Justyna Lagoda , Maitrayee Mandal , Piotr Mijakowski , Yashwanth S. Prabhu , Joanna Zalipska , Mo Jia , Junjie Jiang , Wei Shi , Chiaki Yanagisawa , Masayuki Harada , Yota Hino , Hirokazu Ishino , Yusuke Koshio , Fumi Nakanishi , Seiya Sakai , Tomoaki Tada , Tomohiro Tano , Takeharu Ishizuka , Giles Barr , Daniel Barrow , Laurence Cook , Soniya Samani , David Wark , Anna Holin , Federico Nova , Seunghyun Jung , Byeongsu Yang , JeongYeol Yang , Jonghee Yoo , Jack E. P. Fannon , Liz Kneale , Matthew Malek , Jordan M. McElwee , Matthew D. Thiesse , Lee F. Thompson , Stephen T. Wilson , Hiroko Okazawa , Lakshmi S. Mohan , SooBong Kim , Eunhyang Kwon , Ji-Woong Seo , Intae Yu , Atsuko K. Ichikawa , Kiseki D. Nakamura , Seidai Tairafune , Kyoshi Nishijima , Aoi Eguchi , Kota Nakagiri , Yasuhiro Nakajima , Shizuka Shima , Natsumi Taniuchi , Eiichiro Watanabe , Masashi Yokoyama , Patrick de Perio , Saki Fujita , Cesar Jesus-Valls , Kai Martens , Ka M. Tsui , Mark R. Vagins , Junjie Xia , Shota Izumiyama , Masahiro Kuze , Ryo Matsumoto , Kotaro Terada , Ryusei Asaka , Masaki Ishitsuka , Hiroshi Ito , Yuga Ommura , Natsuki Shigeta , Masataka Shinoki , Koki Yamauchi , Tsukasa Yoshida , Rhea Gaur , Vincent Gousy-Leblan , Mark Hartz , Akira Konaka , Xiaoyue Li , Shaomin Chen , Benda Xu , Aiqiang Zhang , Bin Zhang , Magdalena Posiadala-Zezula , Steven B. Boyd , Rory Edwards , David Hadley , Matthew Nicholson , Marcus O'Flaherty , Benjamin Richards , Ajmi Ali , Blair Jamieson , Shogo Amanai , Lluis Marti-Magro , Akihiro Minamino , Ryo Shibayama , Serina Suzuki

MicroBooNE light collection system

MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment located on axis in the Booster Neutrino Beamline, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, scheduled to begin data collection in 2014. The MicroBooNE detector consists of two main components: a large…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 Teppei Katori

The calibration system for the photomultiplier array of the SNO+ experiment

A light injection system using LEDs and optical fibres was designed for the calibration and monitoring of the photomultiplier array of the SNO+ experiment at SNOLAB. Large volume, non-segmented, low-background detectors for rare event…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-04 R. Alves , S. Andringa , S. Bradbury , J. Carvalho , D. Chauhan , K. Clark , I. Coulter , F. Descamps , E. Falk , L. Gurriana , C. Kraus , G. Lefeuvre , A. Maio , J. Maneira , M. Mottram , S. Peeters , J. Rose , L. Seabra , J. Sinclair , P. Skensved , J. Waterfield , R. White , J. R. Wilson

Optical calibration hardware for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

The optical properties of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) heavy water Cherenkov neutrino detector are measured in situ using a light diffusing sphere ("laserball"). This diffuser is connected to a pulsed nitrogen/dye laser via…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 B. A. Moffat , R. J. Ford , F. A. Duncan , K. Graham , A. L. Hallin , C. A. W. Hearns , J. Maneira , P. Skensved , D. R. Grant

T2K near detector constraints for oscillation results

The T2K experiment is a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment using a near detector complex ND280 and a far detector, Super-Kamiokande. Neutrino interactions are detected by Cherenkov light in Super-Kamiokande in order to measure…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Haegel

LSND reloaded

In view of the recent result from the anti-neutrino run of MiniBooNE, we suggest to repeat the original Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) experiment using Super-Kamiokande, doped with Gadolinium, as detector. Due to the more than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 Sanjib K. Agarwalla , Patrick Huber

The Hyper-Kamiokande experiment: input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Hyper-Kamiokande is a large infrastructure for particle and astroparticle physics being built in Japan and aiming to start operations by the end of 2027 whose objective is to address the most important questions in science today, for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-23 Kamiokande Collaboration

Gadolinium study for a water Cherenkov detector

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

A Water \v{C}erenkov Calorimeter as the Next Generation Neutrino Detector

We propose here a large homogeneous calorimeter as the next generation neutrino detector for $\nu$ factories and/or conventional $\nu$ beams. The active media is chosen to be water for obvious economical reasons. The \v Cerenkov light…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi-Fang Wang

Direct Measurement of Supernova Neutrino Emission Parameters with a Gadolinium-Enhanced Super-Kamiokande Detector

The time-integrated luminosity and average energy of the neutrino emission spectrum are essential diagnostics of core-collapse supernovae. The SN 1987A electron antineutrino observations by the Kamiokande-II and IMB detectors are only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hasan Yuksel , Shin'ichiro Ando , John Beacom

Design, performance, and analysis of a measurement of optical properties of antarctic ice below 400 nm

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is the world's largest neutrino telescope, instrumenting 1 km$^3$ of Antarctic ice with 5160 photosensors to detect Cherenkov light. For the IceCube Upgrade, to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Jannes Brostean-Kaiser

Prospects for Distinguishing Supernova Models Using a Future Neutrino Signal

The next Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) should yield a large number of observed neutrinos. Using Bayesian techniques, we show that with an SN at a known distance up to 25 kpc, the neutrino events in a water Cherenkov detector similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Jackson Olsen , Yong-Zhong Qian

Testing of Cryogenic Photomultiplier Tubes for the MicroBooNE Experiment

The MicroBooNE detector, to be located on axis in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), consists of two main components: a large liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-08 T. Briese , L. Bugel , J. M. Conrad , M. Fournier , C. Ignarra , B. J. P. Jones , T. Katori , R. Navarrete-Perez , P. Nienaber , T. McDonald , B. Musolf , A. Prakash , E. Shockley , T. Smidt , K. Swanson , M. Toups

Development of a Bi-solvent Liquid Scintillator with Slow Light Emission

One of the most promising approaches for the next generation of neutrino experiments is the realization of large hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors made possible by recent innovations in photodetection technology and liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-03 Hans Th. J. Steiger , Matthias Raphael Stock , Manuel Böhles , Sarah Braun , Edward J. Callaghan , David Dörflinger , Ulrike Fahrendholz , Jonas Firsching , Elias Fischer , Tanner Kaptanoglu , Lennard Kayser , Meishu Lu , Lothar Oberauer , Gabriel D. Orebi Gann , Korbinian Stangler , Michael Wurm , Dorina Zundel

Real-Time Supernova Neutrino Burst Monitor at Super-Kamiokande

We present a real-time supernova neutrino burst monitor at Super-Kamiokande (SK). Detecting supernova explosions by neutrinos in real time is crucial for giving a clear picture of the explosion mechanism. Since the neutrinos are expected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-02 K. Abe , Y. Haga , Y. Hayato , M. Ikeda , K. Iyogi , J. Kameda , Y. Kishimoto , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , Y. Nakano , S. Nakayama , H. Sekiya , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , H. Tanaka , T. Tomura , K. Ueno , R. A. Wendell , T. Yokozawa , T. Irvine , T. Kajita , I. Kametani , K. Kaneyuki , K. P. Lee , T. McLachlan , Y. Nishimura , E. Richard , K. Okumura , L. Labarga , P. Fernandez , S. Berkman , H. A. Tanaka , S. Tobayama , J. Gustafson , E. Kearns , J. L. Raaf , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , M. Goldhaber , G. Carminati , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , P. Weatherly , A. Renshaw , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , V. Takhistov , K. S. Ganezer , B. L. Hartfiel , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , N. Hong , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , T. Akiri , A. Himmel , K. Scholberg , C. W. Walter , T. Wongjirad , T. Ishizuka , S. Tasaka , J. S. Jang , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , S. N. Smith , T. Hasegawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Kobayashi , T. Nakadaira , K. Nakamura , Y. Oyama , K. Sakashita , T. Sekiguchi , T. Tsukamoto , A. T. Suzuki , Y. Takeuchi , C. Bronner , S. Hirota , K. Huang , K. Ieki , T. Kikawa , A. Minamino , A. Murakami , T. Nakaya , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , K. Tateishi , Y. Fukuda , K. Choi , Y. Itow , G. Mitsuka , P. Mijakowski , J. Hignight , J. Imber , C. K. Jung , C. Yanagisawa , M. J. Wilking , H. Ishino , A. Kibayashi , Y. Koshio , T. Mori , M. Sakuda , R. Yamaguchi , T. Yano , Y. Kuno , R. Tacik , S. B. Kim , H. Okazawa , Y. Choi , K. Nishijima , M. Koshiba , Y. Suda , Y. Totsuka , M. Yokoyama , K. Martens , Ll. Marti , M. R. Vagins , J. F. Martin , P. de Perio , A. Konaka , S. Chen , Y. Zhang , K. Connolly , R. J. Wilkes