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Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a Standard Model process that, although predicted for decades, has only been detected recently by the COHERENT collaboration. Now that CE$\nu$NS has been discovered, it provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Julien Billard , Joseph Johnston , Bradley J. Kavanagh

A structure, used as a complex source of X-rays and neutron source, is designed with the assistance of CST module tool. Particles of -H and electron, attracted from a plasma source, are designed to be separated by an energy selector. Soon…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-02-13 X. B. Yang , X. B. Qin , P. H. Liu , T. Li , K. Zhuang

The characteristics of the Solid-state Neutron Detector, under development for neutron-scattering measurements at the European Spallation Source, have been simulated with a Geant4-based computer code. The code models the interations of…

The X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission XMM-Newton is ESA's largest observatory so far; it is dedicated to explore the Universe in the 0.2 - 15 keV X-ray band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Because of its large collecting area very faint sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Becker , B. Aschenbach

A system for collecting the scintillation light produced by the capture process of ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) on polarized $^{3}$He is discussed and results from simulations of its performance are presented. This system will be implemented…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-05-04 D. A. Loomis , V. Cianciolo , E. Leggett

A comparative study of the neutron-$\gamma$ Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) with seven organic scintillators is performed using an identical setup and digital electronics. The scintillators include plastics (EJ-299-33 and a plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-30 M. Sénoville , F. Delaunay , M. Pârlog , N. L. Achouri , N. A. Orr

A compact liquid organic neutron spectrometer (CLONS) based on a single NE213 liquid scintillator (5 cm diam. x 5 cm) is described. The spectrometer is designed to measure neutron fluence spectra over the energy range 2-200 MeV and is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 F. D. Brooks , A. Buffler , M. S. Allie , M. S. Herbert , M. R. Nchodu , D. T. L. Jones , F. D. Smit , R. Nolte , V. Dangendorf

Photon readout of plastic scintillators is investigated with the aim of improving the precision of neutron \b{eta} decay experiments. Neutron decay is nowadays studied with high statistics, based on up to 109 registered decay events, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-08 Dirk Dubbers

One of the main sources of a background in underground physics experiments (such as the investigation of solar neutrino flux, neutrino oscillations, neutrinoless double beta decay, and the search for annual and daily Cold Dark Matter…

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory provides an intense, high-quality source of neutrinos from pion decay at rest. This source was recently used for the first measurements of coherent elastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-11-16 P. S. Barbeau , Yu. Efremenko , K. Scholberg

Following significant instrument upgrades and parallel methodological developments over the past decade, the TOSCA neutron spectrometer at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron & Muon Source in the United Kingdom has developed a rich and growing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 Jeff Armstrong , Xiao Wang , Felix Fernandez-Alonso

Efficient neutron transport is a key ingredient to the performance of ultracold neutron (UCN) sources, important to meeting the challenges placed by high precision fundamental physics experiments. At the Paul Scherrer Institute's UCN source…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-22 G. Bison , M. Daum , K. Kirch , B. Lauss , D. Ries , P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , G. Zsigmond

We consider the possibilities of studying a supernova collapse neutrino burst at Baksan Neutrino Observatory (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences) using the prposed 5-kt target-mass liquid scintillation spectrometer.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 G. V. Domogatsky , V. I. Kopeikin , L. A. Mikaelyan , V. V. Sinev

In this article we report on the design, manufacture and testing of a high-pressure cell for doing simultaneous dielectric and neutron spectroscopy. This cell is a unique tool for studying dynamics on different timescales, from kilo- to…

Precision tests of the standard model are essential for constraining models of new physics. Neutrino-electron elastic scattering offers a clean probe into many electroweak effects that are complimentary to the more canonical measurements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andre de Gouvea , James Jenkins

We discuss various aspects of a neutrino physics program that can be carried out with the neutrino Beam-Dump eXperiment DRIFT ($\nu$BDX-DRIFT) detector using neutrino beams produced in next generation neutrino facilities. $\nu$BDX-DRIFT is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 D. Aristizabal Sierra , Bhaskar Dutta , Doojin Kim , Daniel Snowden-Ifft , Louis E. Strigari

We report results of tests of the MISANS technique at the CG-1D beamline at High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). A chopper at 40 Hz simulated a pulsed neutron source at the beamline. A compact turn-key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-12-14 G. Brandl , J. Lal , J. Carpenter , L. Crow , L. Robertson , R. Georgii , P. Böni , M. Bleuel

Both the first evidence and the first discoveries of neutrino flavor transformation have come from experiments which use neutrino beams provided by Nature. These discoveries were remarkable not only because they were unexpected--they were…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Atmospheric Neutrino Experiments Working Group

Analytical formulae for the calculation of secondary particle yields in p-A interactions are given. These formulae can be of great practical importance for fast calculations of neutrino fluxes and for designing new neutrino beam-lines. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bonesini , A. Marchionni , F. Pietropaolo , T. Tabarelli de Fatis