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The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) uses fully depleted high-resistivity CCDs (charge coupled devices) with the aim of detecting the coherent elastic scattering of reactor antineutrinos off silicon nuclei and…

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A high-granularity telescope system with a large sensitive area and low material budget has been developed for high-energy heavy ion beam tests. The telescope consists of nine layers of silicon microstrip detectors (SSDs), whose performance…

Short distance reactor antineutrino experiments measure an antineutrino spectrum a few percent lower than expected from theoretical predictions. In this work we study the potential of low energy threshold reactor experiments in the context…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-20 B. C. Cañas , E. A. Garcés , O. G. Miranda , A. Parada

RED-100 is a two-phase detector for study of coherent elastic scattering of reactor electron antineutrinos off xenon atomic nuclei. The detector contains a total of 200 kg of liquid xenon in a titanium cryostat with 160 kg of xenon in…

Numerous particle physics experiments utilize gadolinium (Gd), a rare earth element with the most significant neutron capture cross-section among all elements, to detect anti-neutrinos via inverse beta-decays or to remove neutron-induced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-13 Y. Sakakieda , K. Hosokawa , F. Nakanishi , Y. Hino , Y. Inome , A. Sakaguchi , Y. Takaku , M. Ikeda , H. Sekiya

There is an observed deficit of about 6\% in the expected rate of anti-neutrino interactions when averaging over many different reactor experiments. While the significance of the deficit is low (98.6 \% CL), there is speculation that a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-06 M. Bergevin , C. Grant , R. Svoboda

Originally designed as a new nuclear reactor monitoring device, the Nucifer detector has successfully detected its first neutrinos. We provide the second shortest baseline measurement of the reactor neutrino flux. The detection of electron…

The SNO+ experiment is a large-scale, multipurpose neutrino experiment situated 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Canada. Successor to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the SNO+ detector has inherited much of the original infrastructure…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-11 Benjamin Tam

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiment. In addition to GeV-scale oscillation measurements ($\delta_{CP}$, $\theta_{23}$ octant, mass ordering), DUNE features a low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-26 Emile Lavaut

Several different experimental results are indicating the existence of anomalies in the neutrino sector. Models beyond the standard model have been developed to explain these results and involve one or more additional neutrinos that do not…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-29 Umut Kose

Results from the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments have been interpreted as evidence for a sterile neutrino with a mass near the electronvolt scale. Here we propose to test such a scenario by measuring the coherent elastic scattering rate of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper , Pedro Machado

We propose applications of Radioactive Ion Beam facilities to investigate physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, we focus on the possible measurement of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering and on a search for sterile neutrinos,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Catalina Espinoza , Rimantas Lazauskas , Cristina Volpe

Scintillating crystal detector may offer some potential advantages in the low-energy, low-background experiments. A 500 kg CsI(Tl) detector to be placed near the core of Nuclear Power Station II in Taiwan is being constructed for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 TEXONO Collaboration

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

The COHERENT collaboration observed coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering using a 14.6 kg cesium-iodide (CsI) detector in 2017 and recently published the updated results before decommissioning the detector. Here, we present the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-16 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , G. Masia

SciNO$\nu$A is a proposed experiment to deploy a fine-grained scintillator detector in front of the NO$\nu$A near detector to collect neutrino-nucleus scattering events in the NuMI, off-axis, narrow-band neutrino beam at Fermilab. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-11-18 X. C. Tian

The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to measure electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam. It consists of two finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad off-axis in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-03 Hongyue Duyang