English
Related papers

Related papers: DarkNews: a Python-based event generator for heavy…

200 papers

While the low-energy excess observed at MiniBooNE remains unchallenged, it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile it with the results from other sterile neutrino searches and cosmology. Recently, it has been shown that non-minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Pilar Coloma

We present the high energy neutrino Monte Carlo event generator ANIS (All Neutrino Interaction Simulation). The aim of the program is to provide a detailed and flexible neutrino event simulation for high energy neutrino detectors, such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Kowalski , Askhat Gazizov

We show that novel paths to dark matter generation and baryogenesis are open when the Standard Model is extended with three sterile neutrinos $N_i$ and a charged scalar $\delta^+$. Specifically, we propose a new production mechanism for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Michele Frigerio , Carlos E. Yaguna

The application of Bayesian Neural Networks(BNN) to discriminate neutrino events from backgrounds in reactor neutrino experiments has been described in Ref.\cite{key-1}. In the paper, BNN are also used to identify neutrino events in reactor…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-03-12 Ye Xu , WeiWei Xu , YiXiong Meng , Bin Wu

Heavy neutrinos with additional interactions have recently been proposed as an explanation to the MiniBooNE excess. These scenarios often rely on marginally boosted particles to explain the excess angular spectrum, thus predicting large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-17 Carlos A. Argüelles , Matheus Hostert , Yu-Dai Tsai

We present $\nu$DoBe, a Python tool for the computation of neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) rates in terms of lepton-number-violating operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). The tool can be used for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Oliver Scholer , Jordy de Vries , Lukáš Gráf

There is accumulating evidence for a difference between neutrino and antineutrino oscillations at the $\sim 1$ eV$^2$ scale. The MiniBooNE experiment observes an unexplained excess of electron-like events at low energies in neutrino mode,…

Precise neutrino energy reconstruction is essential for next-generation long-baseline oscillation experiments, yet current methods remain limited by large uncertainties in neutrino-nucleus interaction modeling. Even so, it is well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Daniel C. Hackett , Shirley Weishi Li , Pedro A. N. Machado , Karla Tame-Narvaez

Neutrino trident scattering is a rare Standard Model process where a charged-lepton pair is produced in neutrino-nucleus scattering. To date, only the dimuon final-state has been observed, with around 100 total events, while the other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Peter Ballett , Matheus Hostert , Silvia Pascoli , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez , Zahra Tabrizi , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

We perform an exhaustive scan of the allowed resonant production regime for sterile neutrino dark matter in order to improve constraints for dark matter structures which arise from the non-thermal sterile neutrino energy spectra.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-03 John F. Cherry , Shunsaku Horiuchi

Ultra-high-energy neutrinos serve as messengers of some of the highest energy astrophysical environments. Given that neutrinos are neutral and only interact via weak interactions, neutrinos can emerge from sources, traverse astronomical…

Recently an excess of electron neutrino, $\nu_e$, events in a MiniBooNE experiment has been reported. An attempt to explain this anamoly was made in a theoretical analysis by introducing a new light Higgs Boson. In the present work we use a…

General Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Leonard S. Kisslinger

A neutrino event generator developed by the Wroclaw Neutrino Group is described. The physical models included in the generator are discussed and illustrated with the results of simulations. The considered processes are quasi-elastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaroslaw A. Nowak

Neutron multiplicity is a key observable in recent neutrino experiments that can enhance the sensitivity of various neutrino physics searches. Nuclear deexcitation plays a significant role in neutron emissions associated with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-16 Seisho Abe

We analyze the prospects for detection of light sub-GeV dark matter produced in experiments designed to study the properties of neutrinos, such as MiniBooNE, T2K, SHiP, DUNE etc. We present an improved production model, when dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 Patrick deNiverville , Chien-Yi Chen , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

The extraction of neutrino mixing parameters from accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments relies on proper modeling of neutrino-nucleus scattering processes using neutrino-interaction event generators. Experimental tests of these…

The ultimate objectives of ongoing and upcoming neutrino experiments are the precise measurement of neutrino mixing parameters and the confirmation of mass hierarchy. The systematic inaccuracy in the cross-section models introduces…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Ritu Devi , Jaydip Singh , Baba Potukuchi

We study coherent pion production in neutrino-nucleus scattering in the energy region relevant to neutrino oscillation experiments of current interest. Our approach is based on a combined use of the Sato-Lee model of electroweak pion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-14 S. X. Nakamura , T. Sato , T. -S. H. Lee , B. Szczerbinska , K. Kubodera

In recent years a number of new theoretical models have been implemented into Monte-Carlo neutrino interaction event generators. Being able to compare multiple model predictions is invaluable to the field, especially as it is unfortunately…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-11 P. Stowell , S. Cartwright , L. Pickering , C. Wret , C. Wilkinson

We study the dependence of neutral current (NC) neutrino-induced $\pi^0$/photon production ($\nu_\mu + A \to \nu_\mu +1\pi^0 / \gamma + X$) on the atomic number of the target nucleus, A, at 4-momentum transfers relevant to the MiniBooNE…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-27 A. Ioannisian