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The spectrum of cosmogenic neutrons at Earth's surface covers a wide energy range, from thermal to several GeV. The flux of secondary neutrons varies with latitude, elevation, solar activity, and nearby material, including ground moisture.…

In this work, we discuss the possibility to test Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) using $``$Cosmic Ray Beam Dump$"$ experiments. In analogy with terrestrial beam dump experiments, where a beam first hits a target and is then absorbed by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Oliver Fischer , Baibhab Pattnaik , José Zurita

Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing (CRNS) is a powerful technique that allows non-invasive monitoring of soil moisture on length scales well matched for agricultural applications. One factor limiting the use of the technique within industrial…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-15 J. P. Stowell , S. J. Fargher , C. A. Steer , L. F. Thompson

Fission events from Special Nuclear Material (SNM), such as highly enriched uranium or plutonium, can produce simultaneous emission of multiple neutrons and high energy gamma-rays. The observation of time correlations between any of these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-12 M. Sweany , A. Bernstein , N. S. Bowden , S. Dazeley , G. Keefer , R. Svoboda , M. Tripathi

To date, antineutrino experiments built for the purpose of demonstrating a nonproliferation capability have typically employed organic scintillators, were situated as close to the core as possible -typically a few meters to tens of meters…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-19 O. A. Akindele , A. Bernstein , M. Bergevin , S. A. Dazeley , F. Sutanto , A. Mullen , J. Hecla

The next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, like CTA, is going to strongly improve the detection capability of high-energy cosmic rays. In our paper we discuss the possibility to use such apparatus to detect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Ofelia Pisanti

We study the problem of determination of the sign of Delta m^2_{31}, or the neutrino mass hierarchy, through observations of atmospheric neutrinos in future detectors. We consider two proposed detector types : (a) Megaton sized water…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Raj Gandhi , Pomita Ghoshal , Srubabati Goswami , Poonam Mehta , S Uma Sankar , Shashank Shalgar

An electron accelerator in the 100 MeV range, similar to the one used at BNL's Accelerator test Facility, for example, would have some advantages as a calibration tool for water cerenkov or Liquid Argon neutrino detectors. We describe a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-04-20 Sebastian White , Vitaly Yakimenko

The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov technique allows to detect very high energy gamma rays from few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV using ground-based instrumentation. At these energies a gamma ray generates a shower of secondary particles…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 Juan Cortina , Carlos Delgado

The High-Altitude Water-Cherenkov (HAWC) experiment is a TeV $\gamma$-ray observatory located \unit[4100]{m} above sea level on the Sierra Negra mountain in Puebla, Mexico. The detector consists of 300 water-filled tanks, each instrumented…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-14 Samuel Stephens Marinelli , Jordan Goodman

Calibration of a PMT matrix is crucial for the treatment of the data obtained with Cherenkov tracking detector. Furthermore, due to high variability of the aerosol abundance in the atmosphere depending on season, weather etc. A constant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Stanislav Knurenko , Yuri Egorov , Igor Petrov

We propose modifying large water \v{C}erenkov detectors by the addition of 0.2% gadolinium trichloride, which is highly soluble, newly inexpensive, and transparent in solution. Since Gd has an enormous cross section for radiative neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 John F. Beacom , Mark R. Vagins

Future large liquid-scintillator (LS) detectors are competitive with and complementary to the water-Cherenkov detectors on the searches for diffuse supernova neutrino background and nucleon decay. In a companion paper, we have performed a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-17 Jie Cheng , Yu-Feng Li , Hao-Qi Lu , Liang-Jian Wen

Interactions of ultrahigh energy neutrinos of cosmological origin in large volumes of dense, radio-transparent media can be detected via coherent Cherenkov emission from accompanying electromagnetic showers. Antarctic ice meets the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 George M. Frichter , John P. Ralston , Douglas W. McKay

Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCD) are efficient detectors for detecting GRBs in the 10 GeV - 1 TeV energy range using the single particle technique, given their sensitivity to low energy secondary photons produced by high energy photons when…

Using aerogel as radiator and multianode PMTs for photon detection, a proximity focusing Cherenkov ring imaging detector has been constructed and tested in the KEK $\pi$2 beam. The aim is to experimentally study the basic parameters such as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-09 I. Adachi , I. Bizjak , A. Gorisek , T. Iijima , M. Iwamoto , S. Korpar , P. Krizan , R. Pestotnik , M. Staric , A. Stanovnik , T. Sumiyoshi , K. Suzuki , T. Tabata

In order to characterise the behaviour of Water Cherenkov Detectors (WCD) under a sudden increase of 1 GeV - 1 TeV background photons from a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB), simulations were conducted and compared to data acquired by the WCD of the…

The ANTARES Collaboration proposes to construct a large area water Cherenkov detector in the deep Mediterranean Sea, optimised for the detection of muons from high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. This paper presents the scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 ANTARES Collaboration

The existing and in development devices at Basic Environmental Observatory (BEO) Moussala are presented, precisely the experiments connected with space weather and astroparticle studies. The recent results of the secondary cosmic ray…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Mishev

The current focus of the CERN program is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), however, CERN is engaged in long baseline neutrino physics with the CNGS project and supports T2K as recognized CERN RE13, and for good reasons: a number of observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 A. Rubbia