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A prototype for SANDD: A highly-segmented pulse-shape-sensitive plastic scintillator detector incorporating silicon photomultiplier arrays

We report the first clear observation of neutron/gamma-ray pulse-shape sensitivity of a fully-instrumented 8 $\times$ 8 array of plastic scintillator segments coupled to two 5 cm $\times$ 5 cm 64-channel SiPM arrays as part of a study of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Viacheslav A. Li , Timothy M. Classen , Steven A. Dazeley , Mark J. Duvall , Igor Jovanovic , Andrew N. Mabe , Edward T. E. Reedy , Felicia Sutanto

The latest T2K neutrino oscillation results

T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment taking data since 2010. A neutrino beam is produced at the J-PARC accelerator in Japan and is sampled at a Near Detector complex 280 m from the neutrino production point and at the far…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 L. Haegel

Silicon detectors for the n-TOF neutron beams monitoring

During 2014 the second experimental area EAR2 was completed at the n-TOF neutron beam facility at CERN. As the neutrons are produced via spallation, by means of a high-intensity 20 GeV pulsed proton beam impinging on a thick target, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Cosentino , A. Musumarra , M. Barbagallo , N. Colonna , L. Damone , A. Pappalardo , M. Piscopo , P. Finocchiaro

Underground Neutrino Detectors for Particle and Astroparticle Science: the Giant Liquid Argon Charge Imaging ExpeRiment (GLACIER)

The current focus of the CERN program is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), however, CERN is engaged in long baseline neutrino physics with the CNGS project and supports T2K as recognized CERN RE13, and for good reasons: a number of observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 A. Rubbia

Neutrino Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider

The proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce an intense, high-energy beam of neutrinos of all flavors, collimated in the forward direction. Recently two dedicated neutrino experiments, FASER and SND@LHC, have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-20 Akitaka Ariga , Jamie Boyd , Felix Kling , Albert De Roeck

Application of Hamamatsu MPPC to T2K Neutrino Detectors

A special type of Hamamatsu MPPC, with a sensitive area of 1.3x1.3mm^2 containing 667 pixels with 50x50um^2 each, has been developed for the near neutrino detector in the T2K long baseline neutrino experiment. About 60 000 MPPCs will be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Yokoyama , T. Nakaya , S. Gomi , A. Minamino , N. Nagai , K. Nitta , D. Orme , M. Otani , T. Murakami , T. Nakadaira , M. Tanaka , Yu. Kudenko , F. Retiere , A. Vacheret

A Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Using J-PARC Neutrino Beam and Hyper-Kamiokande

Hyper-Kamiokande will be a next generation underground water Cherenkov detector with a total (fiducial) mass of 0.99 (0.56) million metric tons, approximately 20 (25) times larger than that of Super-Kamiokande. One of the main goals of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-01-20 Kamiokande Working Group , K. Abe , H. Aihara , C. Andreopoulos , I. Anghel , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , R. Asfandiyarov , M. Askins , J. J. Back , P. Ballett , M. Barbi , G. J. Barker , G. Barr , F. Bay , P. Beltrame , V. Berardi , M. Bergevin , S. Berkman , T. Berry , S. Bhadra , F. d. M. Blaszczyk , A. Blondel , S. Bolognesi , S. B. Boyd , A. Bravar , C. Bronner , F. S. Cafagna , G. Carminati , S. L. Cartwright , M. G. Catanesi , K. Choi , J. H. Choi , G. Collazuol , G. Cowan , L. Cremonesi , G. Davies , G. De Rosa , C. Densham , J. Detwiler , D. Dewhurst , F. Di Lodovico , S. Di Luise , O. Drapier , S. Emery , A. Ereditato , P. Fernandez , T. Feusels , A. Finch , M. Fitton , M. Friend , Y. Fujii , Y. Fukuda , D. Fukuda , V. Galymov , K. Ganezer , M. Gonin , P. Gumplinger , D. R. Hadley , L. Haegel , A. Haesler , Y. Haga , B. Hartfiel , M. Hartz , Y. Hayato , M. Hierholzer , J. Hill , A. Himmel , S. Hirota , S. Horiuchi , K. Huang , A. K. Ichikawa , T. Iijima , M. Ikeda , J. Imber , K. Inoue , J. Insler , R. A. Intonti , T. Irvine , T. Ishida , H. Ishino , M. Ishitsuka , Y. Itow , A. Izmaylov , B. Jamieson , H. I. Jang , M. Jiang , K. K. Joo , C. K. Jung , A. Kaboth , T. Kajita , J. Kameda , Y. Karadhzov , T. Katori , E. Kearns , M. Khabibullin , A. Khotjantsev , J. Y. Kim , S. B. Kim , Y. Kishimoto , T. Kobayashi , M. Koga , A. Konaka , L. L. Kormos , A. Korzenev , Y. Koshio , W. R. Kropp , Y. Kudenko , T. Kutter , M. Kuze , L. Labarga , J. Lagoda , M. Laveder , M. Lawe , J. G. Learned , I. T. Lim , T. Lindner , A. Longhin , L. Ludovici , W. Ma , L. Magaletti , K. Mahn , M. Malek , C. Mariani , L. Marti , J. F. Martin , C. Martin , P. P. J. Martins , E. Mazzucato , N. McCauley , K. S. McFarland , C. McGrew , M. Mezzetto , H. Minakata , A. Minamino , S. Mine , O. Mineev , M. Miura , J. Monroe , T. Mori , S. Moriyama , T. Mueller , F. Muheim , M. Nakahata , K. Nakamura , T. Nakaya , S. Nakayama , M. Needham , T. Nicholls , M. Nirkko , Y. Nishimura , E. Noah , J. Nowak , H. Nunokawa , H. M. O'Keeffe , Y. Okajima , K. Okumura , S. M. Oser , E. O'Sullivan , R. A. Owen , Y. Oyama , J. Perez , M. Y. Pac , V. Palladino , J. L. Palomino , V. Paolone , D. Payne , O. Perevozchikov , J. D. Perkin , C. Pistillo , S. Playfer , M. Posiadala-Zezula , J. -M. Poutissou , B. Quilain , M. Quinto , E. Radicioni , P. N. Ratoff , M. Ravonel , M. Rayner , A. Redij , F. Retiere , C. Riccio , E. Richard , E. Rondio , H. J. Rose , M. Ross-Lonergan , C. Rott , S. D. Rountree , A. Rubbia , R. Sacco , M. Sakuda , M. C. Sanchez , E. Scantamburlo , K. Scholberg , M. Scott , Y. Seiya , T. Sekiguchi , H. Sekiya , A. Shaikhiev , I. Shimizu , M. Shiozawa , S. Short , G. Sinnis , M. B. Smy , J. Sobczyk , H. W. Sobel , T. Stewart , J. L. Stone , Y. Suda , Y. Suzuki , A. T. Suzuki , R. Svoboda , R. Tacik , A. Takeda , A. Taketa , Y. Takeuchi , H. A. Tanaka , H. K. M. Tanaka , H. Tanaka , R. Terri , L. F. Thompson , M. Thorpe , S. Tobayama , N. Tolich , T. Tomura , C. Touramanis , T. Tsukamoto , M. Tzanov , Y. Uchida , M. R. Vagins , G. Vasseur , R. B. Vogelaar , C. W. Walter , D. Wark , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , R. Wendell , R. J. Wilkes , M. J. Wilking , J. R. Wilson , T. Xin , K. Yamamoto , C. Yanagisawa , T. Yano , S. Yen , N. Yershov , M. Yokoyama , M. Zito

A 3D segmented Water-based Liquid Scintillator for high-precision detection of neutrinos in water

Precision detection of neutrino-nucleus interactions in water with the complete detection of the final state, including leptons and hadrons, is challenging due to water being a non-scintillating medium. This can be a limitation for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-18 Botao Li , Daria Borodulina , Davide Sgalaberna , Tim Weber , Minfang Yeh , Umut Kose , Matthew Franks , André Rubbia , Johannes Wüthrich , Claudio Giganti , Tatsuya Kikawa

Search for anomalies in the neutrino sector with muon spectrometers and large LArTPC imaging detectors at CERN

A new experiment with an intense ~2 GeV neutrino beam at CERN SPS is proposed in order to definitely clarify the possible existence of additional neutrino states, as pointed out by neutrino calibration source experiments, reactor and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-01 M. Antonello , D. Bagliani , B. Baibussinov , H. Bilokon , F. Boffelli , M. Bonesini , E. Calligarich , N. Canci , S. Centro , A. Cesana , K. Cieslik , D. B. Cline , A. G. Cocco , D. Dequal , A. Dermenev , R. Dolfini , M. De Gerone , S. Dussoni , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , G. T. Garvey , F. Gatti , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , F. Guber , A. Guglielmi , M. Haranczyk , J. Holeczek , A. Ivashkin , M. Kirsanov , J. Kisiel , I. Kochanek , A. Kurepin , J. Lagoda , G. Lucchini , W. C. Louis , S. Mania , G. Mannocchi , S. Marchini , V. Matveev , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , G. B. Mills , C. Montanari , M. Nicoletto , S. Otwinowski , T. J. Palczewki , G. Passardi , F. Perfetto , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Plonski , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , E. Segreto , D. Stefan , J. Stepaniak , R. Sulej , O. Suvorova , M. Terrani , D. Tlisov , R. G. Van de Water , G. Trinchero , M. Turcato , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , H. G. Wang , X. Yang , A. Zani , K Zaremba , M. Benettoni , P. Bernardini , A. Bertolin , R. Brugnera , M. Calabrese , A. Cecchetti , S. Cecchini , G. Collazuol , P. Creti , F. Dal Corso , A. Del Prete , I. De Mitri , G. De Robertis , M. De Serio , L. Degli Esposti , D. Di Ferdinando , U. Dore , S. Dusini , P. Fabbricatore , C. Fanin , R. A. Fini , G. Fiore , A. Garfagnini , G. Giacomelli , R. Giacomelli , C. Guandalini , M. Guerzoni , U. Kose , G. Laurenti , M. Laveder , I. Lippi , F. Loddo , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , G. Mancarella , G. Mandrioli , A. Margiotta , G. Marsella , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , A. Mengucci , M. Mezzetto , R. Michinelli , M. T. Muciaccia , D. Orecchini , A. Paoloni , G. Papadia , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , M. Pozzato , G. Rosa , Z. Sahnounm , S. Simone , M. Sioli , G. Sirri , M. Spurio , L. Stanco , A. Surdo , M. Tenti , V. Togo , M. Ventura , M. Zago

New Physics searches in a low threshold scintillating argon bubble chamber measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in reactors

The sensitivity to New Physics of a low threshold scintillating argon bubble chamber measuring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in reactors is reported. Namely, light scalar mediators, sterile neutrino oscillations, unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 E. Alfonso-Pita , L. J. Flores , Eduardo Peinado , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

Detectors and flux instrumentation for future neutrino facilities

This report summarises the conclusions from the detector group of the International Scoping Study of a future Neutrino Factory and Super-Beam neutrino facility. The baseline detector options for each possible neutrino beam are defined as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-29 T. Abe , H. Aihara , C. Andreopoulos , A. Ankowski , A. Badertscher , G. Battistoni , A. Blondel , J. Bouchez , A. Bross , A. Bueno , L. Camilleri , J. E. Campagne , A. Cazes , A. Cervera-Villanueva , G. De Lellis , F. Di Capua , M. Ellis , A. Ereditato , L. S. Esposito , C. Fukushima , E. Gschwendtner , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , M. Iwasaki , K. Kaneyuki , Y. Karadzhov , V. Kashikhin , Y. Kawai , M. Komatsu , E. Kozlovskaya , Y. Kudenko , A. Kusaka , H. Kyushima , A. Longhin , A. Marchionni , A. Marotta , C. McGrew , S. Menary , A. Meregaglia , M. Mezzeto , P. Migliozzi , N. K. Mondal , C. Montanari , T. Nakadaira , M. Nakamura , H. Nakumo , H. Nakayama , J. Nelson , J. Nowak , S. Ogawa , J. Peltoniemi , A. Pla-Dalmau , S. Ragazzi , A. Rubbia , F. Sanchez , J. Sarkamo , O. Sato , M. Selvi , H. Shibuya , M. Shozawa , J. Sobczyk , F. J. P. Soler , P. Strolin , M. Suyama , M. Tanak , F. Terranova , R. Tsenov , Y. Uchida , A. Weber , A. Zlobin

The Electromagnetic Calorimeter for the T2K Near Detector ND280

The T2K experiment studies oscillations of an off-axis muon neutrino beam between the J-PARC accelerator complex and the Super-Kamiokande detector. Special emphasis is placed on measuring the mixing angle theta_13 by observing electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-11-06 D. Allan , C. Andreopoulos , C. Angelsen , G. J. Barker , G. Barr , S. Bentham , I. Bertram , S. Boyd , K. Briggs , R. G. Calland , J. Carroll , S. L. Cartwright , A. Carver , C. Chavez , G. Christodoulou , J. Coleman , P. Cooke , G. Davies , C. Densham , F. Di Lodovico , J. Dobson , T. Duboyski , T. Durkin , D. L. Evans , A. Finch , M. Fitton , F. C. Gannaway , A. Grant , N. Grant , S. Grenwood , P. Guzowski , D. Hadley , M. Haigh , P. F. Harrison , A. Hatzikoutelis , T. D. J. Haycock , A. Hyndman , J. Ilic , S. Ives , A. C. Kaboth , V. Kasey , L. Kellet , M. Khaleeq , G. Kogan , L. L. Kormos , M. Lawe , T. B. Lawson , C. Lister , R. P. Litchfield , M. Lockwood , M. Malek , T. Maryon , P. Masliah , K. Mavrokoridis , N. McCauley , I. Mercer , C. Metelko , B. Morgan , J. Morris , A. Muir , M. Murdoch , T. Nicholls , M. Noy , H. M. O'Keeffe , R. A. Owen , D. Payne , G. F. Pearce , J. D. Perkin , E. Poplawska , R. Preece , W. Qian , P. Ratoff , T. Raufer , M. Raymond , M. Reeves , D. Richards , M. Rooney , R. Sacco , S. Sadler , P. Schaack , M. Scott , D. I. Scully , S. Short , M. Siyad , R. Smith , B. Still , P. Sutcliffe , I. J. Taylor , R. Terri , L. F. Thompson , A. Thorley , M. Thorpe , C. Timis , C. Touramanis , M. A. Uchida , Y. Uchida , A. Vacheret , J. F. VanSchalkwyk , O. Veledar , A. V. Waldron , M. A. Ward , G. P. Ward , D. Wark , M. O. Wascko , A. Weber , N. West , L. H. Whitehead , C. Wilkinson , J. R. Wilson

Scintillator phase of the SNO+ experiment

The SNO+ experiment is the follow up of the SNO experiment, replacing the heavy water volume with about 780 tons of liquid scintillator (LAB) in order to shift the sensitive threshold to lower energy range. The 6000 m.w.e. natural rock…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Lozza

Design, construction, and characterization of a compact DD neutron generator designed for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

A next-generation, high-flux DD neutron generator has been designed, commissioned, and characterized, and is now operational in a new facility at the University of California Berkeley. The generator, originally designed for 40Ar/39Ar dating…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Mauricio Ayllon , Parker A. Adams , Joseph D. Bauer , Jon C. Batchelder , Tim A. Becker , Lee A. Bernstein , Su-Ann Chong , Jay James , Leo E. Kirsch , Ka-Ngo Leung , Eric F. Matthews , Jonathan T. Morrell , Paul R. Renne , Andrew M. Rogers , Daniel Rutte , Andrew S. Voyles , Karl Van Bibber , Cory S. Waltz

Performance of a full scale prototype detector at the BR2 reactor for the SoLid experiment

The SoLid collaboration has developed a new detector technology to detect electron anti-neutrinos at close proximity to the Belgian BR2 reactor at surface level. A 288$\,$kg prototype detector was deployed in 2015 and collected data during…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-23 Y. Abreu , Y. Amhis , L. Arnold , G. Ban , W. Beaumont , M. Bongrand , D. Boursette , B. C. Castle , K. Clark , B. Coupé , D. Cussans , A. De Roeck , J. D'Hondt , D. Durand , M. Fallot , L. Ghys , L. Giot , B. Guillon , S. Ihantola , X. Janssen , S. Kalcheva , L. N. Kalousis , E. Koonen , M. Labare , G. Lehaut , L. Manzanillas , J. Mermans , I. Michiels , C. Moortgat , D. Newbold , J. Park , V. Pestel , K. Petridis , I. Piñera , G. Pommery , L. Popescu , G. Pronost , J. Rademacker , D. Ryckbosch , N. Ryder , D. Saunders , M. -H. Schune , L. Simard , A. Vacheret , S. Van Dyck , P. Van Mulders , N. van Remortel , S. Vercaemer , M. Verstraeten , A. Weber , F. Yermia

SND@LHC Upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC: Physics Reach and Installation Scenarios

The SND@LHC experiment is currently taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), exploring the unique forward region at pseudorapidities from 7.2 to 8.4. Its physics programme covers neutrinos originating from heavy-flavour decays and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-21 LHC Collaboration

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

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

Calibration Plan for the SBC 10-kg Liquid Argon Detector with 100 eV Target Threshold

The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is designing a new generation of low background, noble liquid bubble chamber experiments with sub-keV nuclear recoil threshold. These experiments combine the electronic recoil blindness…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-09 E. Alfonso-Pita , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , J. Corbett , M. Crisler , C. E. Dahl , K. Dering , A. de St. Croix , D. Durnford , P. Giampa , J. Hall , O. Harris , H. Hawley-Herrera , L. Joseph , A. Kucich , N. Lamb , M. Laurin , I. Levine , W. H. Lippincott , B. Mitra , R. Neilson , O. Nicholson , M. -C. Piro , G. Putnam , D. Pyda , Z. Sheng , G. Sweeney , O. Valdés-Martínez , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , S. Westerdale , T. J. Whitis , S. Windle , A. Wright , E. Wyman , R. Zhang

Probing Non Standard Neutrino Physics at T2KK and Neutrino Factory

We discuss the possibility of constraining or discovering the non-standard neutrino physics beyond the standard model with future long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. Among very many possible experimental set up we discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Shoichi Uchinami