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The paper is devoted to the description of the iDREAM detector and its systems. iDREAM is a prototype detector designed to demonstrate the feasibility of antineutrino detectors for remote reactor monitoring and safeguard purposes.…

SoLid, located at SCK-CEN in Mol, Belgium, is a reactor antineutrino experiment at a very short baseline of 5.5 - 10m aiming at the search for sterile neutrinos and for high precision measurement of the neutrino energy spectrum of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-07-10 Lukas On Arnold

A Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program of three LAr-TPC detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab is presented. This new SBN Program will deliver a rich and compelling physics opportunity, including the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 R. Acciarri , C. Adams , R. An , C. Andreopoulos , A. M. Ankowski , M. Antonello , J. Asaadi , W. Badgett , L. Bagby , B. Baibussinov , B. Baller , G. Barr , N. Barros , M. Bass , V. Bellini , P. Benetti , S. Bertolucci , K. Biery , H. Bilokon , M. Bishai , A. Bitadze , A. Blake , F. Boffelli , T. Bolton , M. Bonesini , J. Bremer , S. J. Brice , C. Bromberg , L. Bugel , E. Calligarich , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , B. Carls , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , H. Chen , C. Chi , E. Church , D. Cianci , A. G. Cocco , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , G. De Geronimo , A. Dermenev , R. Dharmapalan , S. Dixon , Z. Djurcic , S. Dytmam , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , J. Esquivel , J. Evans , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , B. T. Fleming , W. M. Foreman , J. Freestone , T. Gamble , G. Garvey , V. Genty , M. Geynisman , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , D. Göldi , S. Gollapinni , N. Golubev , M. Graham , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , A. Guglielmi , A. Hackenburg , R. Hänni , O. Hen , V Hewes , J. Ho , G. Horton-Smith , J. Howell , A. Ivashkin , C. James , C. M. Jen , R. A. Johnson , B. J. P. Jones , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , D. Kaleko , L. N. Kalousis , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , M. Kirsanov , J. Kisiel , J. Klein , J. Klinger , T. Kobilarcik , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , V. A. Kudryavtsev , Y. Li , B. Littlejohn , D. Lissauer , P. Livesly , S. Lockwitz , W. C. Louis , M. Lüthi , B. Lundberg , F. Mammoliti , G. Mannocchi , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , K. Mavrokoridis , N. McCauley , N. McConkey , K. McDonald , V. Meddage , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , I. Mercer , T. Miao , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , D. Mladenov , C. Montanari , D. Montanari , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. Moore , Z. Moss , M. H. Moulai , S. Mufson , R. Murrells , D. Naples , M. Nessi , M. Nicoletto , P. Nienaber , B. Norris , F. Noto , J. Nowak , S. Pal , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , V. Papavassiliou , S. Pate , J. Pater , Z. Pavlovic , J. Perkin , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Płoński , S. Pordes , R. Potenza , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , L. Qiuguang , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , R. Rameika , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , P. N. Ratoff , B. Rebel , M. Richardson , L. Rochester , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , B. Sippach , E. Snider , J. Sobczyk , M. Soderberg , S. Söldner-Rembold , M. Spanu , J. Spitz , N. Spooner , D. Stefan , J. St. John , T. Strauss , R. Sulej , C. M. Sutera , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , C. E. Taylor , K. Terao , M. Thiesse , L. Thompson , M. Thomson , C. Thorn , M. Torti , F. Tortorici , M. Toups , C. Touramanis , Y. Tsai , T. Usher , R. Van de Water , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , T. Wachala , M. Weber , D. Whittington , P. Wilson , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , M. Xu , T. Yang , B. Yu , A. Zani , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

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

DANSS is a highly segmented $1m^3$ plastic scintillator detector. Its 2500 scintillator strips have a Gd loaded reflective cover. Light is collected with 3 wave length shifting fibers per strip and read out with 50 PMTs and 2500 SiPMs. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-12-03 Mikhail Danilov

We present a new technique for observing low energy neutrinos with the aim of detecting the cosmic neutrino background using ion storage rings. Utilising high energy targets exploits the quadratic increase in the neutrino capture cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-04 Martin Bauer , Jack D. Shergold

This paper describes the several phases which led, from the conceptual design, prototyping, construction and tests with beam, to the installation and operation of the BRAN (Beam RAte of Neutrals) relative luminosity monitors for the LHC.…

Several experiments have been conducted in the YangYang Underground Laboratory in the Republic of Korea such as the search for dark matter and the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, which require an extremely low background event…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-16 Young Soo Yoon , Jungho Kim , Hyeonseo Park

The results of a Monte Carlo simulation study of the hadron energy response for the magnetized Iron CALorimeter detector, ICAL, proposed to be located at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is presented. Using a GEANT4 modeling of…

The hybrid Tibet AS array was successfully constructed in 2014. It has 4500 m$^{2}$ underground water Cherenkov pools used as the muon detector (MD) and 789 scintillator detectors covering 36900 m$^{2}$ as the surface array. At 100 TeV,…

A new measurement of the reactor antineutrino flux and energy spectrum by the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is reported. The antineutrinos were generated by six 2.9~GW$_{\mathrm{th}}$ nuclear reactors and detected by eight…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-10 F. P. An , A. B. Balantekin , H. R. Band , M. Bishai , S. Blyth , D. Cao , G. F. Cao , J. Cao , W. R. Cen , Y. L. Chan , J. F. Chang , L. C. Chang , Y. Chang , H. S. Chen , Q. Y. Chen , S. M. Chen , Y. X. Chen , Y. Chen , J. -H. Cheng , J. Cheng , Y. P. Cheng , Z. K. Cheng , J. J. Cherwinka , M. C. Chu , A. Chukanov , J. P. Cummings , J. de Arcos , Z. Y. Deng , X. F. Ding , Y. Y. Ding , M. V. Diwan , M. Dolgareva , J. Dove , D. A. Dwyer , W. R. Edwards , R. Gill , M. Gonchar , G. H. Gong , H. Gong , M. Grassi , W. Q. Gu , M. Y. Guan , L. Guo , R. P. Guo , X. H. Guo , Z. Guo , R. W. Hackenburg , R. Han , S. Hans , M. He , K. M. Heeger , Y. K. Heng , A. Higuera , Y. K. Hor , Y. B. Hsiung , B. Z. Hu , T. Hu , W. Hu , E. C. Huang , H. X. Huang , X. T. Huang , P. Huber , W. Huo , G. Hussain , D. E. Jaffe , P. Jaffke , K. L. Jen , S. Jetter , X. P. Ji , X. L. Ji , J. B. Jiao , R. A. Johnson , D. Jones , J. Joshi , L. Kang , S. H. Kettell , S. Kohn , M. Kramer , K. K. Kwan , M. W. Kwok , T. Kwok , T. J. Langford , K. Lau , L. Lebanowski , J. Lee , J. H. C. Lee , R. T. Lei , R. Leitner , C. Li , D. J. Li , F. Li , G. S. Li , Q. J. Li , S. Li , S. C. Li , W. D. Li , X. N. Li , Y. F. Li , Z. B. Li , H. Liang , C. J. Lin , G. L. Lin , S. Lin , S. K. Lin , Y. -C. Lin , J. J. Ling , J. M. Link , L. Littenberg , B. R. Littlejohn , D. W. Liu , J. L. Liu , J. C. Liu , C. W. Loh , C. Lu , H. Q. Lu , J. S. Lu , K. B. Luk , Z. Lv , Q. M. Ma , X. Y. Ma , X. B. Ma , Y. Q. Ma , Y. Malyshkin , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. T. McDonald , R. D. McKeown , I. Mitchell , M. Mooney , Y. Nakajima , J. Napolitano , D. Naumov , E. Naumova , H. Y. Ngai , Z. Ning , J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux , A. Olshevskiy , H. -R. Pan , J. Park , S. Patton , V. Pec , J. C. Peng , L. Pinsky , C. S. J. Pun , F. Z. Qi , M. Qi , X. Qian , N. Raper , J. Ren , R. Rosero , B. Roskovec , X. C. Ruan , H. Steiner , G. X. Sun , J. L. Sun , W. Tang , D. Taychenachev , K. Treskov , K. V. Tsang , C. E. Tull , N. Viaux , B. Viren , V. Vorobel , C. H. Wang , M. Wang , N. Y. Wang , R. G. Wang , W. Wang , X. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. Wang , Z. M. Wang , H. Y. Wei , L. J. Wen , K. Whisnant , C. G. White , L. Whitehead , T. Wise , H. L. H. Wong , S. C. F. Wong , E. Worcester , C. -H. Wu , Q. Wu , W. J. Wu , D. M. Xia , J. K. Xia , Z. Z. Xing , J. Y. Xu , J. L. Xu , Y. Xu , T. Xue , C. G. Yang , H. Yang , L. Yang , M. S. Yang , M. T. Yang , M. Ye , Z. Ye , M. Yeh , B. L. Young , Z. Y. Yu , S. Zeng , L. Zhan , C. Zhang , H. H. Zhang , J. W. Zhang , Q. M. Zhang , X. T. Zhang , Y. M. Zhang , Y. X. Zhang , Y. M. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , Z. P. Zhang , J. Zhao , Q. W. Zhao , Y. B. Zhao , W. L. Zhong , L. Zhou , N. Zhou , H. L. Zhuang , J. H. Zou

We determine the sensitivity to neutrino oscillation parameters from a study of atmospheric neutrinos in a magnetised detector such as the ICAL at the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory. In such a detector that can {\em separately}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Lakshmi S. Mohan , D. Indumathi

Increasing interest in energetic particle effects on weather and climate has motivated development of a miniature scintillator-based detector intended for deployment on meteorological radiosondes or unmanned airborne vehicles. The detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-17 Karen L Aplin , Aaron A Briggs , R Giles Harrison , Graeme J Marlton

The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is designing a new generation of low background, noble liquid bubble chamber experiments with sub-keV nuclear recoil threshold. These experiments combine the electronic recoil blindness…

We present here a characterization of the low background NaI(Tl) crystal NaI-33 based on a period of almost one year of data taking (891 kgxdays exposure) in a detector configuration with no use of organic scintillator veto. This remarkably…

In connection with the question of possible existence of sterile neutrino the laboratory on the basis of SM-3 reactor was created to search for oscillations of reactor antineutrino. A prototype of a neutrino detector with scintillator…

One of the most abundant man-made sources of low energy (few~MeVs) neutrinos, reactor neutrino, is not only useful for studying neutrino properties, but it is also used in practical applications. In this study, we investigate the practical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-09 Son Cao , T. V. Ngoc , N. T. Hong Van , P. T. Quyen

Reactor antineutrinos are used to study neutrino oscillation, search for signatures of non-standard neutrino interactions, and to monitor reactor operation for safeguard applications. The flux and energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-01 K. M. Heeger , B. R. Littlejohn , H. P. Mumm , M. N. Tobin

The spatial distribution of the background events may affect the source detection capability of IBIS at high energies (> 200 keV) for both ISGRI and PICsIT layers. The observed background is found to be variable and spatially structured,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Natalucci , A. J. Bird , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini , J. B. Stephen , R. Terrier , L. Lerusse

The non-linear energy response of the plastic scintillator EJ-260 is measured with the MicroCHANDLER detector, using neutron beams of energy 5 to 27 MeV at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory. The first and second order Birks'…