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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

Massive underground detectors can be considered as sort of observatories for rare physics phenomena like astrophysical neutrino detection and nucleon decay searches. We briefly overview the past tracking calorimeters developed for nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rubbia

The NeuLAND (New Large-Area Neutron Detector) plastic-scintillator-based time-of-flight detector for 0.1-1.6 GeV neutrons is currently under construction at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), Darmstadt, Germany. In its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-11 Thomas Hensel , David Weinberger , Daniel Bemmerer , Konstanze Boretzky , Igor Gašparić , Daniel Stach , Andreas Wagner , Kai Zuber

We describe a proposal to add a set of very forward detectors to the CMS experiment for the high-luminosity era of the Large Hadron Collider to search for beyond the standard model long-lived particles, such as dark photons, heavy neutral…

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…

The T2K experiment is designed to study neutrino oscillation properties by directing a high intensity neutrino beam produced at J-PARC in Tokai, Japan, towards the large Super-Kamiokande detector located 295 km away, in Kamioka, Japan. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-17 T2K ND280 TPC collaboration

The PADME experiment, at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF), in Italy, will search for invisible decays of the hypothetical dark photon via the process $e^+e^-\rightarrow \gamma A'$, where the $A'$ escapes detection. The dark photon…

The measurement of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ opens a gateway for the next generation experiments to measure the neutrino mass hierarchy and the leptonic CP-violating phase. Future reactor experiments will focus on mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-29 Miao He

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

Next generation neutrino telescopes are highly anticipated to boost the development of neutrino astronomy. A multi-cubic-kilometer neutrino telescope, TRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT), was proposed to be built in the South…

The ANTARES collaboration propose to observe High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos using a Deep Sea Cherenkov detector. The sky survey with high energy neutrinos is complementary to the observations with photons. It is expected that this will shed a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES collaboration

Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCDs) are pivotal in various scientific fields, including neutrino physics, gamma-ray astronomy, and cosmic-ray research. The detection sensitivity and precision of these detectors crucially rely on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 D. Ambrosino , R. Colalillo , V. M. Grieco , F. Guarino , L. Lavitola , F. Sansone , M. Tambone , L. Valore , M. Waqas

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are a central component of neutrino telescopes such as IceCube and KM3NeT, and an accurate understanding and measurement of their properties is indispensable for improvements of these experiments. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-31 Berit Schlüter , Willem Achtermann , Martin Antonio Unland Elorrieta

Super-Kamiokande is a paramount detector for studying atmospheric, astrophysical and accelerator neutrino physics. This work extracts and characterizes the neutrino reconstruction performance of Super-Kamiokande using the public data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-28 C. Jesús-Valls

This paper presents several approaches to deal with the problem of identifying muons in a water Cherenkov detector with a reduced water volume and 4 PMTs. Different perspectives of information representation are used and new features are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-29 B. S. González , R. Conceição , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé , A. Guillén

After two decades of measurements, neutrino physics is now advancing into the precision era. Withthe long-baseline experiments designed to tackle current open questions, a new query arises: can atmospheric neutrino experiments also play a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-22 C. A. Argüelles , P. Fernández , I. Martínez-Soler , M. Jin

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are traditionally an integral part of large underground experiments as they measure the light emission from particle interactions within the enclosed detection media. The BUTTON experiment will utilise around…

MEMPHYS (MEgaton Mass PHYSics) is a proposed large-scale water-Cherenkov experiment to be performed deep underground. It is dedicated to nucleon decay searches and the detection of neutrinos from supernovae, solar, and atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Agostino , M. Buizza-Avanzini , M. Marafini , T. Patzak , A. Tonazzo , M. Dracos , N. Vassilopoulos , D. Duchesneau , M. Mezzetto , L. Mosca

The T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) experiment is a long-baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment. Intense muon neutrino and antineutrino beams are produced at the J-PARC accelerator complex situated in Tokai. After 280 metres the beam…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-11 Marcela Batkiewicz

The Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is being built at Haizi mountain, Sichuan, China at an altitude of 4410 m. One of its main goals is to survey the northern sky for very-high-energy (above 100 GeV) gamma ray sources…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-29 Kun Jiang , Zebo Tang , Xin Li , Cheng Li