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Atmospheric neutrino experiments can determine the neutrino mass hierarchy for any value of $\delta_{CP}$. The Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory can distinguish between the charged current interactions…

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The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) will host a 50 kt magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL@INO) for the study of atmospheric neutrinos. Using the detector resolutions and efficiencies obtained by the INO collaboration from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-07 Tarak Thakore , Anushree Ghosh , Sandhya Choubey , Amol Dighe

India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a planned neutrino experiment to be build up in southern part of India.The INO observatory will host a 51 kton Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector to detect atmospheric neutrinos. Resistive Plate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-24 Md. Naimuddin , Daljeet Kaur , Purnendu Kumar , Ankit Gaur , Praveen Kumar , Md. Hasbuddin , Swati Mishra , Ashok Kumar

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a sample of high purity, primarily atmospheric, muon neutrino events over 11 years from all directions below the horizon, spanning the energy range 500 GeV to 100 TeV. While this sample was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Alex Wen

In this paper we show that the DUNE experiment can measure the Earth's density profile by analyzing atmospheric neutrino oscillations. The crucial feature that enables such measurement is the detailed event reconstruction capability of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez

The study has been carried out on the prospects of probing the sterile neutrino mixing with the magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL) at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), using atmospheric neutrinos as a source. The so-called 3~$+$~1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-29 S. P. Behera , Anushree Ghosh , Sandhya Choubey , V. M. Datar , D. K. Mishra , A. K. Mohanty

Neutrino oscillations in matter can exhibit a specific resonance enhancement -- parametric resonance, which is different from the MSW resonance. Recently it has been shown that the oscillations of atmospheric and solar neutrinos inside the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 E. Kh. Akhmedov

A high-density calorimeter, consisting of magnetized iron planes interleaved by RPCs, as tracking and timing devices, is a good candidate for a next generation experiment on atmospheric neutrinos. With 34 kt of mass and in four years of…

We perform a detailed analysis for the prospects of detecting active-sterile oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino, over a large $\Delta m^2_{41}$ range of $10^{-5}$ eV$^2$ to $10^2$ eV$^2$, using 10 years of atmospheric neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Tarak Thakore , Moon Moon Devi , Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla , Amol Dighe

We propose that reactor experiments could be used to constrain the environment dependence of neutrino mass and mixing parameters, which could be induced due to an acceleron coupling to matter fields. There are several short-baseline reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Schwetz , Walter Winter

In the last 70 years, geophysics has established that the Earth's outer core is an FeNi alloy containing a few percent of light elements, whose nature and amount remain controversial today. Besides the classical combinations of silicon and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-02 L. Maderer , E. Kaminski , J. A. B. Coelho , S. Bourret , V. Van Elewyck

The proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory will host a 50 kton magnetized iron calorimeter (ICAL) with resistive plate chambers as its active detector element. Its primary focus is to study charged-current interactions of atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-19 Aleena Chacko , D. Indumathi , James F. Libby , P. K. Behera

We study Earth matter effect in oscillation of supernovae neutrinos. We show that detecting Earth matter effect gives an independent measurement of spectra of supernovae neutrinos, i.e. the flavor difference of the spectra of supernovae…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-16 Wei Liao

The magnetized Iron CALorimeter detector (ICAL) which is proposed to be built in the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) laboratory, aims to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations primarily through charged current interactions of muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Kanishka , Meghna K. K. , Vipin Bhatnagar , D. Indumathi , Nita Sinha

We consider tomography of the Earth's interior using the neutrino pair beam which has recently been proposed. The beam produces a large amount of neutrino and antineutrino pairs from the circulating partially stripped ions and provides the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Takehiko Asaka , Hisashi Okui , Minoru Tanaka , Motohiko Yoshimura

A comprehensive formalism for the description of neutrino oscillations in the Earth in a general scheme with three massive neutrinos and the mass hierarchy m_1<<m_2<<m_3 is presented. Using this formalism, which is valid both in vacuum and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 C. Giunti , C. W. Kim , M. Monteno

The electronic density in the Sun's inner core is inferred from the 8B, 7Be and pep neutrino flux measurements of the Super-Kamiokande, SNO and Borexino experiments. We have developed a new method in which we use the KamLAND detector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-01 Ilídio Lopes

Neutrino oscillations in matter can exhibit a specific resonance enhancement -- parametric resonance, which is different from the MSW resonance. Oscillations of atmospheric and solar neutrinos inside the earth can undergo parametric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 E. Kh. Akhmedov

We present an exact analytic solution to the neutrino evolution equation in matter with periodic step-function density profile and discuss in detail the parametric resonance of neutrino oscillations that can occur in such a system. Solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Kh. Akhmedov

The iron calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) will be used to measure neutrino mass hierarchy. The magnet in the ICAL detector will be used to distinguish the {\mu^-} and {\mu^+} events induced by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-04 S. P. Behera , M. S. Bhatia , V. M. Datar , A. K. Mohanty