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We point out that the excess of electron-like neutrino events recently observed by the T2K collaboration may have a common origin with the similar excess events previously reported by the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments and interpreted as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-16 S. N. Gninenko

Neutrinos are the best candidates to test the extreme Universe and ideas beyond the Standard Model of particle Physics. Once produced, neutrinos do not suffer any kind of attenuation by intervening radiation fields like the Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Aloisio

MCViNE (Monte-Carlo VIrtual Neutron Experiment) is a versatile Monte Carlo (MC) neutron ray-tracing program that provides researchers with tools for performing computer modeling and simulations that mirror real neutron scattering…

An unidentified 3.55 keV X-ray line in stacked spectra of galaxies and clusters raises the interesting possibility that it originates from the decay of sterile neutrino dark matter. In this work, we explore mixed sterile neutrino dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-30 Emma L. Horner , Francisco Mungia Wulftange , Isabella A. Ianora , Chad T. Kishimoto

We propose a model to explain tiny masses of neutrinos with the lepton number conservation, where neither too heavy particles beyond the TeV-scale nor tiny coupling constants are required. Assignments of conserving lepton numbers to new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Shinya Kanemura , Kodai Sakurai , Hiroaki Sugiyama

We present the high-energy neutrino Monte Carlo event generator ANIS (All Neutrino Interaction Simulation). The program provides a detailed and flexible neutrino event simulation for high-energy neutrino detectors, such as AMANDA, ANTARES…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Askhat Gazizov , Marek P. Kowalski

The MUonE experiment aims at providing a novel determination of the leading hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering. Since the initial-state electrons are bound in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 G. Abbiendi , E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , A. Gurgone , F. Piccinini

KM3NeT's detection of a muon track produced by a $\sim 220 \, {\rm PeV}$ neutrino provides an opportunity to probe physics at center-of-momentum energies greater than those probed by the Large Hadron Collider or other existing particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Dan Hooper

We present the results of a new analysis of the data of the MiniBooNE experiment taking into account the additional background of photons from $\Delta^{+/0}$ decay proposed in arXiv:1909.08571 and additional contributions due to coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 C. Giunti , A. Ioannisian , G. Ranucci

A new generation of neutrino experiments is testing the $4.8\sigma$ anomalous excess of electron-like events observed in MiniBooNE. This is of huge importance for particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, not only because of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 C. A. Argüelles , I. Esteban , M. Hostert , K. J. Kelly , J. Kopp , P. A. N. Machado , I. Martinez-Soler , Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez

We point out that the LDMX (Light Dark Matter eXperiment) detector design, conceived to search for sub-GeV dark matter, will also have very advantageous characteristics to pursue electron-nucleus scattering measurements of direct relevance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Artur M. Ankowski , Alexander Friedland , Shirley Weishi Li , Omar Moreno , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro , Nhan Tran

Ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) are neutrons with energies so low they can be stored in material bottles and magnetic traps. They have been used to provide the currently most accurate experiments on the neutron life time and electric dipole…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Korobkina , R. Golub , B. W. Wehring , A. R. Young

McMule, a Monte Carlo for MUons and other LEptons, implements many major QED processes at NNLO (eg. $ee\to ee$, $e\mu\to e\mu$, $ee\to\mu\mu$, $\ell p\to\ell p$, $\mu\to\nu\bar\nu e$) including effects from the lepton masses, making it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-08 Yannick Ulrich

We propose a new scenario of non-thermal production of neutralino cold dark matter, in which the overproduction problem of lightest supersymmetric particles (LSPs) in the standard thermal history is naturally solved. The mechanism requires…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazunori Kohri , Masahiro Yamaguchi , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Progress in neutrino-nucleus cross section models is being driven by the need for highly accurate predictions for the neutrino oscillation community. These sophisticated models are being developed within a microscopic description of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-31 Minerba Betancourt , Steven Gardiner , Noemi Rocco , Noah Steinberg

Recently, the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab has updated the results with increased data and reported an excess of $560.6 \pm 119.6$ electronlike events ($4.7\sigma$) in the neutrino operation mode. In this paper, we propose a scenario to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Chia-Hung Vincent Chang , Chuan-Ren Chen , Shu-Yu Ho , Shih-Yen Tseng

The coherent pion production induced by neutrinos in nuclei is studied using a delta hole model in local density approximation taking into account the renormalization of $\Delta$ properties in a nuclear medium. The pion absorption effects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. K. Singh , M. Sajjad Athar , Shakeb Ahmad

IceCube has discovered a flux of astrophysical neutrinos, and more recently has used muon-neutrino datasets to present evidence for one source; a flaring blazar known as TXS 0506+056. However, the sources responsible for the majority of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Steve Sclafani , Mirco Hünnefeld

Realization of the inverted hierarchy is studied in the radiative neutrino mass model with an additional doublet, in which neutrino masses and dark matter could be induced from a common particle. We show that the sufficient baryon number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Shoichi Kashiwase , Daijiro Suematsu

In the future several Spallation Source facilities will be available worldwide. Spallation Sources produce large amount of neutrinos from decay-at-rest muons and thus can be well adapted to accommodate state-of-the-art neutrino experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-02 R. Lazauskas , C. Volpe