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Next-generation large-scale neutrino detectors, from Eos, at the 1 tonne scale, to Theia, at the 10s-of-ktonne scale, will utilize differences in both the scintillation and Cherenkov light emission for different particle species to perform…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-04 E. J. Callaghan , T. Kaptanoglu , M. Smiley , M. Yeh , G. D. Orebi Gann

Short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments with shallow overburden usually have large cosmogenic neutron backgrounds. The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO) is a ton-level liquid scintillator detector located at about 30 m from a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-05 Ruhui Li , Guofu Cao , Jun Cao , Yichen Li , Yifang Wang , Zhimin Wang , Liang Zhan

We report simulation studies of six low-energy electron-antineutrino detector designs, with the goal of determining their ability to resolve the direction to an antineutrino source. Such detectors with target masses on the one-ton scale are…

This paper presents a strategy for measuring sin^2 theta_W to ~1% at a reactor-based experiment, using antineutrinos electron elastic scattering. This error is comparable to the NuTeV, SLAC E158, and APV results on sin^2 theta_W, but with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Conrad , J. M. Link , M. H. Shaevitz

This presentation describes a precision result of the neutrino mixing parameter, $\sin^2 2\theta_{13}$, and the first direct measurement of the antineutrino mass-squared difference $\sin^2(\Delta_{ee}) \equiv \cos^2 \theta_{12} \sin^2…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Bei-Zhen Hu

Determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy in a reactor neutrino experiment at medium baseline is discussed. Observation of the interference effects between the \Delta m^2_{31} and \Delta m^2_{32} oscillations enables a relative…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-20 Yu-Feng Li , Jun Cao , Yifang Wang , Liang Zhan

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 Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is located at the Daya Bay nuclear power plant in Shenzhen, China. The experiment deploys eight "identical" antineutrino detectors to measure antineutrino fluxes from six 2.9 GW_{th} reactor cores in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Wei Wang

We present an analysis on the sensitivity to the active-sterile neutrino mixing with Germanium (Ge) and Silicon (Si) detectors in the context of the proposed coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus experiment in India. The study has been carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 S. P. Behera , D. K. Mishra , P. K. Netrakanti , R. Sehgal , R. Dey , V. Jha

We explore the possibility to use advanced germanium (Ge) detectors as a low-energy solar neutrino observatory by means of neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering. A Ge detector utilizing internal charge amplification for the charge carriers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-03 S. Bhattarai , D. -M. Mei , M. -S. Raut

A future large-volume liquid scintillator detector would provide a high-statistics measurement of terrestrial antineutrinos originating from $\beta$-decays of the uranium and thorium chains. In addition, the forward displacement of the…

Conventional reactor neutrino experiments are dissapearance experiments, and thus have less sensitivity to small mixing angles than appearance experiments do. It has been recently shown that future reactor neutrino experiments consisiting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose Bernabeu , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

We propose to measure the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) using a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber (TPC) with 200kg fiducial mass. The detector is expected to be adjacent to the JUNO-TAO experiment…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-22 Yu-Ting Wei , Meng-Yun Guan , Jin-Chang Liu , Ze-Yuan Yu , Chang-Gen Yang , Cong Guo , Wei-Xing Xiong , You-Yu Gan , Qin Zhao , Jia-Jun Li

The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment has observed the disappearance of electron antineutrinos from nuclear reactors at $\sim$kilometer baselines. The relative measurement of the $\bar\nu_e$ rate and spectrum between near and far…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-07-26 Chao Zhang

In this poster, we present the latest measurement of electron antineutrino disappearance using the fully constructed Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. A total exposure of $6.9 \times 10^5$ GW$_{\mathrm{th}}$ ton days was achieved in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-05-31 Marco Grassi

An experiment to search for light sterile neutrinos was conducted at a reactor with a thermal power of 2.8 GW located at the Hanbit nuclear power complex. The search was done with a detector consisting of a ton of Gd-loaded liquid…

We discuss prospects for probing short-range sterile neutrino oscillation using neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering with ultra-low energy ($\sim 10$ eV - 100 eV) recoil threshold cryogenic Ge detectors. The analysis is performed in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao , Andrew Kubik , Rupak Mahapatra , Nader Mirabolfathi , Louis E. Strigari , Joel W. Walker

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, PROSPECT, is designed to make both a precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from a highly-enriched uranium reactor and to probe eV-scale sterile neutrinos by searching for…

We present a comprehensive comparison of the physics sensitivities of a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) and a Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) detector, considering their potential deployment as the fourth far detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Nishat Fiza , Suhyeon Kim , Emar Masaku , Mehedi Masud , Hokyeong Nam , Juseong Park , Yujin Park , Kim Siyeon