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Neutrino telescopes provide a unique observational gateway to the high-energy universe, enabling the study of cosmic accelerators and extreme environments that remain inaccessible to the other high-energy messengers. Although they share…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Aya Ishihara

We describe a new software package for simulating channelised, high-time resolution data streams from radio telescopes. The software simulates data from the telescope and observing system taking into account the observation strategy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-09 Rui Luo , George Hobbs , Suk Yee Yong , Andrew Zic , Lawrence Toomey , Shi Dai , Alex Dunning , Di Li , Tommy Marshman , Chen Wang , Pei Wang , Shuangqiang Wang , Songbo Zhang

Ground-based atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are proven to be effective instruments for observations of very high energy (VHE) gamma-radiation from celestial objects. For effective use of such technique one needs detailed Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Konopelko , A. Plyasheshnikov

MEMPHYS (MEgaton Mass PHYSics) is a proposed large-scale water-Cherenkov experiment to be performed deep underground. It is dedicated to nucleon decay searches and the detection of neutrinos from supernovae, solar, and atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Agostino , M. Buizza-Avanzini , M. Marafini , T. Patzak , A. Tonazzo , M. Dracos , N. Vassilopoulos , D. Duchesneau , M. Mezzetto , L. Mosca

The IceCube neutrino observatory uses $1\,\mathrm{km}^{3}$ of the natural Antarctic ice near the geographic South Pole as optical detection medium. When charged particles, such as particles produced in neutrino interactions, pass through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Anna Pollmann

Monitoring of high energy cosmic ray neutrons is of particular interest for cosmic ray water Cherenkov detectors as intense bundles of delayed neutrons have been found to arrive after the initial passage of a high energy air shower. In this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-02 P. Stowell , S. Fargher , L. F. Thompson , A. M. Brown , P. M. Chadwick

We provide a fast approach incorporating the usage of deep learning for evaluating the effects of photon sensors in an antineutrino detector on the event reconstruction performance therein. This work is an attempt to harness the power of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-07-06 Chang-Wei Loh , Zhi-Qiang Qian , You-Hang Liu , De-Wen Cao , Rui Zhang , Wei Wang , Hai-Bo Yang , Ming Qi

The integration of Deep Learning (DL) into experimental nuclear and particle physics has driven significant progress in simulation and reconstruction workflows. However, traditional simulation frameworks such as Geant4 remain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-29 James Giroux , Michael Martinez , Cristiano Fanelli

ANTARES is a project leading towards the construction and deployment of a neutrino telescope in the deep Mediterranean Sea. The telescope will use an array of photomultiplier tubes to detect the Cherenkov light emitted by muons resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES collaboration

Large liquid-scintillator-based detectors have proven to be exceptionally effective for low energy neutrino measurements due to their good energy resolution and scalability to large volumes. The addition of directional information using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Aberle , A. Elagin , H. J. Frisch , M. Wetstein , L. Winslow

The detection of high-energy tau neutrinos remains a critical challenge in neutrino astronomy, limited by inadequate angular resolution and sensitivity in current detectors like IceCube and KM3NeT. We present a modular water Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Monong Yu , Yiren Chen , Lei Wang , Shiping Zhao , Xingyu Li , Qiang Yuan , Yi Zhang , Guang Yang

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) are capable of highly accurate single particle energy measurement. TESs have been used for a wide range of photon detection applications, particularly in astronomy, but very little consideration has been given…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-11 K. M. Patel , S. Withington , C. N. Thomas , A. G. Shard , D. J. Goldie

The light yield of a water-based Cherenkov detector can be significantly improved by adding a wavelength shifter. Wavelength shifter (WLS) molecules absorb ultraviolet photons and re-emit them at longer wavelengths where typical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiongxin Dai , Etienne Rollin , Alain Bellerive , Cliff Hargrove , David Sinclair , Cathy Mifflin , Feng Zhang

Photon detection efficiency is a key parameter of PMTs in high-precision neutrino and dark matter experiments, while most of these experiments are focus on quantum efficiency. More and more experiments are trying to know the detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-12 Hai-qiong Zhang , Zhi-min Wang , Feng-jiao Luo , An-bo Yang , Zhong-hua Qin , Chang-gen Yang , Yue-kun Heng

We develop a modeling framework for bioluminescence light found in the deep sea near neutrino telescopes by combining a hydrodynamic model with a stochastic one. The bioluminescence is caused by organisms when exposed to a non-constant…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-30 Stephan Meighen-Berger , Li Ruohan , Golo Wimmer

The hope is that in the near future neutrino astronomy, born with the identification of thermonuclear fusion in the sun and the particle processes controlling the fate of a nearby supernova, will reach throughout and beyond our Galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Barwick , F. Halzen , P. B. Price

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is the world's largest neutrino telescope, instrumenting 1 km$^3$ of Antarctic ice with 5160 photosensors to detect Cherenkov light. For the IceCube Upgrade, to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 Jannes Brostean-Kaiser

Geant4 is a complex and widely-used software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter and the interactions they undergo. It contains very extensive and flexible optical physics capabilities. These allow for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 Erik Dietz-Laursonn

More than forty years after the first detection of neutrinos from the Sun, the spectroscopy of solar neutrinos has proven to be an on-going success story. The long-standing puzzle about the observed solar neutrino deficit has been resolved…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-06-28 Michael Wurm

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next generation of ground-based observatories employing the imaging air Cherenkov technique for the study of very high energy gamma rays. The software Gammalearn proposes to apply Deep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tom François , Justine Talpaert , Thomas Vuillaume
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