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The Resistive Plate Chamber is a widely used detector in high energy physics. The operating potential of this chamber is determined by the optimisation of the efficiency and noise rate of the device. This optimisation is based on the…

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The study has been carried out on the prospects of probing the sterile neutrino mixing with the magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), using atmospheric neutrinos as a source. The so-called 3~$+$~1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-29 S. P. Behera , Anushree Ghosh , Sandhya Choubey , V. M. Datar , D. K. Mishra , A. K. Mohanty

The recently approved India-based Neutrino Observatory will use the world's largest magnet to study atmospheric muon neutrinos. The 50 kiloton Iron Calorimeter consists of iron alternating with single-gap resistive plate chambers. A uniform…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Ankit Gaur , Ashok Kumar , Md. Naimuddin

The proposed ICAL experiment at INO aims to identify the neutrino mass hierarchy from observations of atmospheric neutrinos, and help improve the precision on the atmospheric neutrino mixing parameters. While the design of ICAL is primarily…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Moon Moon Devi , Tarak Thakore , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Amol Dighe

The possibility of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) may appear in unified theories, such as string theory, which allow the existence of a new space-time structure at the Planck scale ($M_p \sim 10^{19}$ GeV). This effect can be observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Sadashiv Sahoo , Anil Kumar , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla

The Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is planned to be set up in an underground cavern with a rock overburden of more than 1 km. This overburden reduces the cosmic muon flux by a factor of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-27 Neha Panchal , G. Majumder , V. M. Datar

We present the reach of the proposed INO-ICAL in measuring the atmospheric-neutrino-oscillation parameters $\theta_{23}$ and $\Delta m^2_{32}$ using full event-by-event reconstruction for the first time. We also study the fluctuations in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-09 Karaparambil Rajan Rebin , Jim Libby , D. Indumathi , Lakshmi S. Mohan

Atmospheric neutrinos probe the interior of Earth using weak interactions, and provide information complementary to that of gravitational and seismic measurements. While passing through Earth, multi-GeV neutrinos encounter matter effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Anuj Kumar Upadhyay , Anil Kumar , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Amol Dighe

The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) will host a 50 kt magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL@INO) for the study of atmospheric neutrinos. Using the detector resolutions and efficiencies obtained by the INO collaboration from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-07 Tarak Thakore , Anushree Ghosh , Sandhya Choubey , Amol Dighe

The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) will host a 50 kt magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL) detector that will be able to detect muon tracks and hadron showers produced by Charged-Current muon neutrino interactions in the detector. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Daljeet Kaur , Md. Naimuddin , Sanjeev Kumar

The proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory will host a 50 kton magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL) with resistive plate chambers as its active detector element. Its primary focus is to study charged-current interactions of atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-19 Aleena Chacko , D. Indumathi , James F. Libby , P. K. Behera

Atmospheric neutrino experiments can determine the neutrino mass hierarchy for any value of $\delta_{CP}$. The Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory can distinguish between the charged current interactions…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-03 Ali Ajmi , Abhish Dev , Mohammad Nizam , Nitish Nayak , S. Uma Sankar

We perform a detailed analysis for the prospects of detecting active-sterile oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino, over a large $\Delta m^2_{41}$ range of $10^{-5}$ eV$^2$ to $10^2$ eV$^2$, using 10 years of atmospheric neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Tarak Thakore , Moon Moon Devi , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Amol Dighe

We present the first detailed simulation study of tau neutrino-induced charged current (CC) events from atmospheric neutrino interactions in the Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-21 R. Thiru Senthil , D. Indumathi , Prashant Shukla

In this paper, we present a study to measure the differences between the atmospheric neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations in the Iron-Calorimeter detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory experiment. Charged Current $\nu_{\mu}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-06-07 Daljeet Kaur , Zubair Ahmad Dar , Sanjeev Kumar , Md. Naimuddin

We report on a detailed simulation study of the hadron energy resolution as a function of the thickness of the absorber plates for the proposed Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). We compare the…

Observing matter effects in atmospheric neutrinos travelling through the entire mantle and core of the Earth is a promising way of enhancing our understanding of Earth's density structure. In that context we study the prospects of Earth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-25 Deepak Raikwal , Sandhya Choubey

We determine the sensitivity to neutrino oscillation parameters from a study of atmospheric neutrinos in a magnetised detector such as the ICAL at the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory. In such a detector that can {\em separately}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Lakshmi S. Mohan , D. Indumathi

The magnetised Iron Calorimeter detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) has a unique feature to identify the neutrinos and antineutrinos on an event by event basis. This feature can be harnessed to detect the differences…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-03 Zubair Ahmad Dar , Daljeet Kaur , Sanjeev Kumar , Md. Naimuddin

We study the prospects of detecting muon events at the upcoming Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) detector to be built at the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) facility due to neutrinos arising out of annihilation of Weakly Interactive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Deepak Tiwari , Sandhya Choubey , Anushree Ghosh