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The potential of elastic antineutrino-electron scattering in a Gd-doped water Cherenkov detector to determine the direction of a nuclear reactor antineutrino flux was investigated using the recently proposed WATCHMAN antineutrino experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-20 D. Hellfeld , S. Dazeley , A. Bernstein , C. Marianno

We discuss prospects for probing Z-prime and non-standard neutrino interactions using neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering with ultra-low energy (~ 10 eV) threshold Si and Ge detectors. The analysis is performed in the context of a specific…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-04 Bhaskar Dutta , Rupak Mahapatra , Louis E. Strigari , Joel W. Walker

We present a potential improvement over the standard method developed to determine antineutrino directionality in inverse-beta-decay detectors. The previously developed method for quantifying directionality in monolithic and segmented…

We report simulation studies of six low-energy electron-antineutrino detector designs, with the goal of determining their ability to resolve the direction to an antineutrino source. Such detectors with target masses on the one-ton scale are…

The ANTARES Collaboration has completed in 2008 the deployment of what is currently the largest high energy neutrino detector in the Northern hemisphere. The search for cosmic neutrinos in the energy range between tens of GeV and tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuela Vecchi

One of the most abundant man-made sources of low energy (few~MeVs) neutrinos, reactor neutrino, is not only useful for studying neutrino properties, but it is also used in practical applications. In this study, we investigate the practical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-09 Son Cao , T. V. Ngoc , N. T. Hong Van , P. T. Quyen

The ultrahigh energy range of neutrino physics (above $\sim 10^{7} \, \mathrm{GeV}$), as yet devoid of detections, is an open landscape with challenges to be met and discoveries to be made. Neutrino-nucleon cross sections in that range -…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 Ivan Esteban , Steven Prohira , John F. Beacom

Fission explosions produce large numbers of antineutrinos. It is occasionally asked whether this distinctive, unshieldable emission could help reveal clandestine nuclear weapon explosions. The practical challenge encountered is that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-07 Michael Foxe , Theodore Bowyer , Rachel Carr , John Orrell , Brent VanDevender

With the advent of detectors with sub-keV sensitivities, atomic ionization has been identified as a promising avenue to probe possible neutrino electromagnetic properties. The interaction cross-sections induced by millicharged neutrinos are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-01 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Hsin-Chang Chi , Hau-Bin Li , C. -P. Liu , Lakhwinder Singh , Henry T. Wong , Chih-Liang Wu , Chih-Pan Wu

A future galactic SN can be located several hours before the optical explosion through the MeV-neutrino burst, exploiting the directionality of $\nu$-$e$-scattering in a water Cherenkov detector such as Super-Kamiokande. We study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Tomas , D. Semikoz , G. G. Raffelt , M. Kachelriess , A. S. Dighe

Measuring the neutrino mixing parameter \ensuremath{\sin^2\theta_{13}} to the sub-percent precision level could be necessary in the next ten years for the precision unitary test of the PMNS matrix. In this work, we discuss the possibility…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-17 Jinnan Zhang , Jun Cao

We deployed a small, 80kg, antineutrino detector based on solid plastic scintillator, called MiniCHANDLER for nearly three months at a distance of 25m from a 2.9GW thermal power reactor core at the North Anna Nuclear Generating Station. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 Alireza Haghighat , Patrick Huber , Shengchao Li , Jonathan M. Link , Camillo Mariani , Jaewon Park , Tulasi Subedi

The acoustic neutrino detection technique is a promising approach for future large-scale detectors with the aim of measuring the small expected flux of neutrinos at energies in the EeV-range and above. The technique is based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Robert Lahmann

Probably the most promising way of detecting cosmic neutrinos is measuring the mechanical force exerted by elastic scattering of cosmic neutrinos from macroscopic targets. The expected acceleration is $\sim 10^{-23} cm/s^2$ for Dirac…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Hagmann

Opaque detectors are a recently proposed novel detector concept where an opaque scintillator aligned with wavelength-shifting fibers is used to enable the discrimination of electron neutrinos and antineutrinos with a rather low energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-31 Jian Tang , Sampsa Vihonen , TseChun Wang

The science potential of a 10 kiloton deep-ocean liquid scintillation detector for ~1 MeV energy scale electron anti-neutrinos has been studied. Such an instrument, designed to be portable and function in the deep ocean (3-5 km) can make…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-31 John G. Learned , Stephen T. Dye , Sandip Pakvasa

I review the status and perspectives of the research on the diffuse flux of (core collapse) supernova neutrinos (DF). In absence of a positive signal, several upper bounds exist in different detection channels. Of these, the strongest is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cecilia Lunardini

An economical procedure to upgrade the existing Fairport water Cherenkoff detector is described. The detector will lower its energy threshold by increased photocoverage and light yield. Furthermore, by addition of a Gd salt it will become…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 E. P. Bonvin , S. T. Hatamian

In this paper we stress the idea that new, more precise neutrino cross-sections measurements at low energies will be necessary to improve the results of future big neutrino detectors, which will be dominated by the contribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Campanelli , S. Navas-Concha , A. Rubbia

The supernova model discrimination capabilities of the WATCHMAN detector concept are explored. This cylindrical kilotonne-scale water Cherenkov detector design has been developed to detect reactor antineutrinos through inverse $\beta$-decay…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Y. Schnellbach , J. Migenda , A. Carroll , J. Coleman , L. Kneale , M. Malek , C. Metelko , A. Tarrant