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The study of neutrino interactions has recently experienced a renaissance, motivated by the fact that neutrino oscillation experiments depend critically on an accurate models of neutrino interactions. These models have to predict not only…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-10 Deborah A. Harris

Neutrinos with Standard Model interactions free-stream in the early Universe, leaving a distinct phase shift in the pattern of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). When isolated, this phase shift allows one to robustly infer the presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Abbé M. Whitford , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis , David Camarena , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

Simulation-based inference (SBI) methods tackle complex scientific models with challenging inverse problems. However, SBI models often face a significant hurdle due to their non-differentiable nature, which hampers the use of gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Vincent D. Zaballa , Elliot E. Hui

Simulation-based inference (SBI) with neural networks has accelerated and transformed cognitive modeling workflows. SBI enables modelers to fit complex models that were previously difficult or impossible to estimate, while also allowing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Jerry M. Huang , Lukas Schumacher , Niek Stevenson , Stefan T. Radev

The discovery of neutrino oscillations implies that neutrinos are massive and mixed, necessitating an extension of the Standard Model, which may require the introduction of non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI). We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Sudip Jana , Sophie Klett

Many scientific models are composed of multiple discrete components, and scientists often make heuristic decisions about which components to include. Bayesian inference provides a mathematical framework for systematically selecting model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Cornelius Schröder , Jakob H. Macke

Unmodeled beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics in neutrino propagation can masquerade as parameter degeneracies in future precision measurements. Because the upcoming DUNE and T2HK experiments will operate at substantially different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 João Paulo Pinheiro , Ushak Rahaman

Sequential or chained models are increasingly prevalent in machine learning for scientific applications, due to their flexibility and ease of development. Chained models are particularly useful when a task is separable into distinct steps…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-02-05 Daniel Douglas , Aashwin Mishra , Daniel Ratner , Felix Petersen , Kazuhiro Terao

This paper presents recent methodological advances to perform simulation-based inference (SBI) of a general class of Bayesian hierarchical models (BHMs), while checking for model misspecification. Our approach is based on a two-step…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-03 Florent Leclercq

We investigate the potential to probe new neutrino physics with future experiments measuring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Experiments with high statistics should become feasible soon and allow to constrain parameters with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

First principles microphysics models are essential to the design and analysis of high energy density physics experiments. Using experimental data to investigate the underlying physics is also essential, particularly when simulations and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Jim A Gaffney , Dan Clark , Vijay Sonnad , Stephen B Libby

Neutrino-nucleus interactions play an important role in present and future neutrino experiments. The accurate simulation of these interactions at low energies ($<$100 MeV) is crucial for the detection and study of supernova, solar and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-02 Pablo Barham Alzás , Radi Radev

Neutrino models based on flavour symmetries provide the natural way to explain the origin of tiny neutrino masses. At the dawn of precision measurements of neutrino mixing parameters, neutrino mass models can be constrained and examined by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-08 Jian Tang , Tse-Chun Wang

We explore the potential to prove light extra gauge $Z^\prime$ boson inducing non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs) in the coherent-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$ \nu $NS) experiments. We intend to examine how the latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 L. J. Flores , Newton Nath , E. Peinado

Neutrino self-interaction with a larger ``Fermi constant'' is often resorted to for understanding various puzzles of our universe. We point out that a light, neutrinophilic scalar particle $\phi$ through radiative correction leads to an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-11 Yue Zhang

We analyze the possibility of probing non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI, for short) through the detection of neutrinos produced in a future galactic supernova (SN).We consider the effect of NSI on the neutrino propagation through the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Esteban-Pretel , R. Tomàs , J. W. F. Valle

We set constraints and future sensitivity projections on millicharged particles (MCPs) based on electron scattering data in numerous neutrino experiments, starting with MiniBooNE and the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND). Both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Gabriel Magill , Ryan Plestid , Maxim Pospelov , Yu-Dai Tsai

Neutrino oscillation is the only known phenomenon for physics beyond the standard model. To investigate this phenomenon, the understanding of low energy neutrino scattering (200<E<2000 MeV) is the crucial task for high energy physicists. In…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 MiniBooNE Collaboration , Teppei Katori

We discuss reactor antineutrino oscillations with non-standard interactions (NSIs) at the neutrino production and detection processes. The neutrino oscillation probability is calculated with a parametrization of the NSI parameters by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-23 Yu-Feng Li , Ye-Ling Zhou

Simulation-based inference (SBI) with neural posterior estimation (NPE) provides rapid X-ray spectral fitting in both Gaussian and Poisson regimes by learning approximate parameter posteriors from simulations. We investigate auto-encoders…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Didier Barret , Simon Dupourqué