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Beam neutrino oscillation experiments typically employ only one detector at a certain baseline, apart from the near detector that measures the unoscillated neutrino flux at the source. Lately, there have been discussions of having detectors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Minseok Cho , YeolLin ChoeJo , Hye-Sung Lee , Young-Min Lee , Sushant K. Raut

A double-helix electrode configuration is combined with a $^{10}$B powder coating technique to build large-area (9 in $\times$ 36 in) neutron detectors. The neutron detection efficiency for each of the four prototypes is comparable to a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-22 Zhehui Wang , C. L. Morris , J. D. Bacon , M. I. Brockwell , J. C. Ramsey

It is suggested that a large deep underocean (or ice) neutrino detector, given the presence of significant numbers of neutrinos in the PeV energy range as predicted by various models of Active Galactic Nuclei, can make unique measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 John G. Learned , Sandip Pakvasa

We study the advantages of a second identical detector at a medium baseline reactor neutrino experiment. A major obstruction to the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy is the detector's unknown nonlinear energy response, which even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Zhimin Wang , Changgen Yang , Xinmin Zhang , Weili Zhong

Reactor neutrinos have been an important tool for both discovery and precision measurement in the history of neutrino studies. Since the first generation of reactor neutrino experiments in the 1950s, the detector technology has been greatly…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-03-28 Liang-Jian Wen , Jun Cao , Yi-Fang Wang

Our collaboration has designed, installed, and operated a compact antineutrino detector at a nuclear power station, for the purpose of monitoring the power and plutonium content of the reactor core. This paper focuses on the basic…

The main goal of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) under construction in China is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to measure oscillation parameters to the sub-percent level. The detector consists of 20 ktons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-25 Pierre-Alexandre Petitjean , Barbara Clerbaux , Marta Colomer Molla , Yifan Yang

We report on the initial results from a measurement of the anti-neutrino flux and spectrum at a distance of about 800 m from the three reactors of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station using a segmented gadolinium-loaded scintillation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Boehm , J. Busenitz , B. Cook , G. Gratta , H. Henrikson , J. Kornis , D. Lawrence , K. B. Lee , K. McKinny , L. Miller , V. Novikov , A. Piepke , B. Ritchie , D. Tracy , P. Vogel , Y-F. Wang , J. Wolf

We deployed a small, 80kg, antineutrino detector based on solid plastic scintillator, called MiniCHANDLER for nearly three months at a distance of 25m from a 2.9GW thermal power reactor core at the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 Alireza Haghighat , Patrick Huber , Shengchao Li , Jonathan M. Link , Camillo Mariani , Jaewon Park , Tulasi Subedi

The SNO+ experiment, located in SNOLAB, 2 kilometers underground in the Creighton mine, near Sudbury, Canada, is a large scale neutrino detector whose main purpose is to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay and thus probe the Majorana…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-18 Vincent Fischer

Coherent elastic neutrino- and WIMP-nucleus interaction signatures are expected to be quite similar. This paper discusses how a next generation ton-scale dark matter detector could discover neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-07 A. J. Anderson , J. M. Conrad , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , K. Scholberg , J. Spitz

SNO+ will search for neutrinoless double beta decay by loading 780 tonnes of linear alkylbenzene liquid scintillator with O(tonne) of neodymium. Using natural Nd at 0.1% loading will provide 43.7 kg of 150Nd given its 5.6% abundance and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Hartnell

Double electron capture is a rare nuclear decay process in which two orbital electrons are captured simultaneously in the same nucleus. Measurement of its two-neutrino mode would provide a new reference for the calculation of nuclear matrix…

The science potential of a 10 kiloton deep-ocean liquid scintillation detector for ~1 MeV energy scale electron anti-neutrinos has been studied. Such an instrument, designed to be portable and function in the deep ocean (3-5 km) can make…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-31 John G. Learned , Stephen T. Dye , Sandip Pakvasa

With 2.5x the previously reported exposure, the Daya Bay experiment has improved the measurement of the neutrino mixing parameter sin^2(2theta_13) = 0.089+-0.010(stat)+-0.005(syst). Reactor anti-neutrinos were produced by six 2.9 GW(th)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Daniel A. Dwyer

Using a high statistics sample of muon neutrino charged current quasielastic (CCQE) events, we report the first measurement of the double differential cross section as a function of muon energy and angle for this process. The result…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-12-07 Teppei Katori

A reactor-neutrino experiment, Daya Bay, has been proposed to determine the least-known neutrino mixing angle theta_13 using electron antineutrinos produced at the Daya Bay nuclear power complex in China. Daya Bay is an international…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Daya Bay Collaboration

The SoLid experiment aims to resolve the reactor neutrino anomaly by searching for electron-to-sterile anti-neutrino oscillations. The search will be performed between 5.5 and 10 m from the highly enriched uranium core of the BR2 reactor at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Nick Ryder

Two neutrino mixing angles have been measured, and much of the neutrino community is turning its attention to the unmeasured mixing angle, $\quq$, whose best limit comes from the reactor neutrino experiment CHOOZ.\cite{bib:chooz} New two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-06-06 Maury Goodman

We report in situ neutron background measurements at the Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Laboratory (KSNL) by a hybrid neutron detector (HND) with a data size of 33.8 days under identical shielding configurations as during the neutrino physics…

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