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The last decade was remarkable for neutrino physics. In particular, the phenomenon of neutrino flavor oscillations has been firmly established by a series of independent measurements. All parameters of the neutrino mixing are now known and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-01-10 Ernesto Kemp

MeVPrtl is a modular event generator of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics particles developed for use in the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Program. A large class of BSM physics models predict that new particles could be produced in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-13 ICARUS Collaboration , SBND Collaboration

A proposal submitted to the FNAL PAC is described to search for light sub-GeV WIMP dark matter at MiniBooNE. The possibility to steer the beam past the target and into an absorber leads to a significant reduction in neutrino background,…

We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. The MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuMI production target, at 110 mrad angle ($6.3^{\circ}$) with…

The MiniBooNE experiment is a $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ and $\bar\nu_\mu\to\bar\nu_e$ appearance neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. The neutrino mode oscillation analysis shows an excess of $\nu_e$ candidate events in the low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Teppei Katori

We consider the sensitivity of fixed-target neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to light stable states, such as those present in models of MeV-scale dark matter. To ensure the correct thermal relic abundance, such states must…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Patrick deNiverville , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) will utilize a beamline facility located at Fermilab to carry out a compelling research program in neutrino physics. The facility will aim a wide band beam of neutrinos toward a detector placed…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 V. Papadimitriou , R. Andrews , J. Hylen , T. Kobilarcik , A. Marchionni , C. D. Moore , P. Schlabach , S. Tariq

Over the last two decades, several experiments have reported anomalous results that could be hinting at the exciting possibility of sterile neutrino states in the $eV^{2}$ mass scale. Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LArTPCs) are a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Sowjanya Gollapinni

The MiniBooNE detector at Fermilab is designed to search for $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillation appearance at $E_\nu \sim 1 {\rm GeV}$ and to make a decisive test of the LSND signal. The main detector (inside a veto shield) is a spherical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew K. Sharp , John F. Beacom , Joseph A. Formaggio

We discuss the sensitivity of neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to generic hidden sectors containing new (sub)-GeV neutral states. The weak interaction of these states with the Standard Model can be efficiently probed through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Brian Batell , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

We explore the supernova neutrino-boosted dark matter (SN$\nu$BDM) and its direct detection. During core-collapse supernovae, an abundance of neutrinos are emitted. These supernova neutrinos can transfer their kinetic energy to the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jun-Wei Sun , Lei Wu , Yan-Hao Xu , Bin Zhu

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to make precision measurements in the world's most powerful neutrino beam. Neutrinos are measured at two detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-28 Ciaran Hasnip

We study the capabilities of the short baseline neutrino program at Fermilab to probe the unitarity of the lepton mixing matrix. We find the sensitivity to be slightly better than the current one. Motivated by the future DUNE experiment, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-31 O. G. Miranda , Pedro Pasquini , M. Tórtola , J. W. F. Valle

We discuss various aspects of a neutrino physics program that can be carried out with the neutrino Beam-Dump eXperiment DRIFT ($\nu$BDX-DRIFT) detector using neutrino beams produced in next generation neutrino facilities. $\nu$BDX-DRIFT is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 D. Aristizabal Sierra , Bhaskar Dutta , Doojin Kim , Daniel Snowden-Ifft , Louis E. Strigari

The current generation of short baseline neutrino experiments is approaching intrinsic source limitations in the knowledge of flux, initial neutrino energy and flavor. A dedicated facility based on conventional accelerator techniques and…

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies and for neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. The Far Detector of DUNE will consist of four 10 kt liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-25 A. Gallego-Ros

Understanding the quark and gluon substructure of the nucleon has been a prime goal of both nuclear and particle physics for more than thirty years and has led to much of the progress in strong interaction physics. Still the flavor…

Core-collapse supernovae, among the universe's most energetic events, offer a novel window into the dark sector by potentially producing a flux of boosted dark matter (BDM). We explore the potential to detect the BDM produced by supernovae…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Badal Bhalla , Fazlollah Hajkarim , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha

Cosmology observations indicate that our universe is composed of 25% dark matter (DM), yet we know little about its microscopic properties. Whereas the gravitational interaction of DM is well understood, its interaction with the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-05 R. T. Thornton , MiniBooNE-DM collaboration