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This work explains a delayed-coincidence method to perform MeV-scale neutrino spectroscopy with electron-neutrino capture on gallium. An electron-neutrino possessing energy greater than 407.6 keV can be captured on gallium and produce a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-15 Zhe Wang , Benda Xu , Shaomin Chen

The Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly refers to the deficit observed between the average event rate measured in reactor antineutrino experiments with respect to the theoretical prediction. This anomaly was first identified in 2011 ($2.5\sigma$)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , R. P. Zhang

In Gallium detectors for solar neutrinos, the capture rate due to Gamow-Teller transitions to excited states of 71Ge beyond the neutron emission threshold is usually neglected. We make a model calculation to estimate its effect and find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kamales Kar , Sukhendusekhar Sarkar , Srubabati Goswami , Amitava Raychaudhuri

The recent result from the chromium source experiment carried out by the GALLEX collaboration implies interesting limits on the parameters $\Delta m^2$ and $\sin^22\theta$ describing neutrino oscillations. Values of $\Delta m^2~>~0.17$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 J. N. Bahcall , P. I. Krastev , E. Lisi

Recently, several models have been suggested to reduce the tension between Gallium and reactor antineutrino spectral ratio data which is found in the framework of 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing. Among these models, we consider the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-04 Carlo Giunti , Christoph A. Ternes

The stable gallium isotopes, $^{69,71}$Ga, are mostly produced by the weak slow ($s$) process in massive stars. We report here on measurements of astrophysically-relevant neutron capture cross sections of the $^{69,71}$Ga$(n,\gamma)$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-01 M. Tessler , M. Paul , S. Halfon , Y. Kashiv , D. Kijel , A. Kreisel , A. Shor , L. Weissman

We perform a global analysis of most up-to-date solar neutrino data and KamLAND reactor antineutrino data in the framework of the 3+1 sterile neutrino mixing scenario (invoked to explain the results of the Gallium source experiments) with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-07 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Michele Maltoni , João Paulo Pinheiro

We consider the implications of the recent results of SAGE and GALLEX experiments for the solution of the solar neutrino problem in the framework of the resonant neutrino spin-flavor precession scenario. It is shown that this scenario is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Kh. Akhmedov , A. Lanza , S. T. Petcov

Traditional neutrino detectors are built deep underground to reduce backgrounds. The neutrino solar orbiting laboratory ($\nu$SOL) collaboration has been developing a concept to improve neutrino measurement not with a larger detector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jonathan Folkerts

We report an updated result from the ICARUS experiment on the search for {\nu}{\mu} ->{\nu}e anomalies with the CNGS beam, produced at CERN with an average energy of 20 GeV and travelling 730 km to the Gran Sasso Laboratory. The present…

All results of the neutron lifetime measurements performed in the last 20 years with the UCN storage method are in a good agreement. These results are consistent with the latest most accurate measurements of the neutron decay asymmetry…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-04-21 A. P. Serebrov , M. E. Chaikovskii , G. N. Klyushnikov , O. M. Zherebtsov , A. V. Chechkin

We evaluate the feasibility of high-precision coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering measurements exploiting mono-energetic neutrinos produced by electron-capture (EC) decays of intense radioactive sources, such as $^{51}$Cr or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Giovanni Benato , Francesca M. Pofi , Andrei Puiu , Christoph A. Ternes

A characteristic of every inorganic scintillator crystal is its light yield, i.e., the amount of emitted scintillation photons per unit of energy deposited in the crystal. Light yield is known to be usually non-linear with energy, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-15 R. Campana , C. Evola , C. Labanti , L. Ferro , M. Moita , E. Virgilli , E. J. Marchesini , F. Frontera , P. Rosati

Weak Gamow-Teller (GT) responses for low-lying states in ${}^{71}\mathrm{Ga}$ are crucial for studying low-energy solar neutrinos and the Ga anomaly, i.e., the possible transition to the sterile state. The responses for the ground state,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Yoritaka Iwata , Hiroyasu Ejiri , Shahariar Sarkar

We propose to place a very intense source of 51Cr at the center of a 50-tonne target of gallium metal that is divided into two concentric spherical zones and to measure the neutrino capture rate in each zone. This experiment can set limits…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-02-15 V. N. Gavrin , V. V. Gorbachev , E. P. Veretenkin , B. T. Cleveland

The result of the 3-year neutrino magnetic moment measurement at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant with the GEMMA spectrometer is presented. Antineutrino-electron scattering is investigated. A high-purity germanium detector of 1.5 kg placed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-11-26 A. G. Beda , V. B. Brudanin , E. V. Demidova , V. G. Egorov , D. V. Medvedev , M. V. Shirchenko , A. S. Starostin , Ts. Vylov

The experimental and theoretical research on the physics of massive neutrinos is based on the standard paradigm of three-neutrino mixing, which describes the oscillations of neutrino flavors measured in solar, atmospheric, and long-baseline…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-18 Ilham El Atmani

The field of gamma ray astronomy relies heavily on the statistical analysis of data. Because of the paucity of data, and the often large errors associated with detecting gamma rays, analysis and interpretation of the data require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Tompkins

If the solar neutrino flux were constant, as is widely assumed, the histogram of flux measurements would be unimodal. On the other hand, sinusoidal or square-wave modulation (either periodic or stochastic) may lead to a bimodal histogram.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter A. Sturrock , Jeffrey D. Scargle