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A light injection system using LEDs and optical fibres was designed for the calibration and monitoring of the photomultiplier array of the SNO+ experiment at SNOLAB. Large volume, non-segmented, low-background detectors for rare event…

Using a NuMI beam exposure of 7.1 /times 10^20 protons-on-target, the MINOS long-baseline experiment has performed a search for active to sterile neutrino mixing over a distance of 735 km. Details of the analysis are provided, along with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexandre Sousa

The main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering with a 20kt liquid-scintillator detector. The 20-inch PMT and its 1F3 (one for three) electronics are crucial to realize the excellent energy resolution of at…

MINOS searches for neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos between two detectors, over a baseline of 735 km. We recently reported the most precise measurement of neutrino oscillations in the atmospheric sector and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-10-11 Zeynep Isvan

Recent results from the MINOS experiment at Fermilab reconfirm neutrino oscillations. We describe briefly this experiment and discuss how this and other experiments enable us to determine fundamental parameters of elementary particle…

MINOS is an accelerator neutrino oscillation experiment at Fermilab. An intense high energy neutrino beam is produced at Fermilab and sent to a near detector on the Fermilab site and also to a 5 kTon far detector 735 km away in the Soudan…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-05-22 Milind V. Diwan

The ICARUS T600 LAr TPC is the far detector of the Short Baseline Program at FNAL. As it will have to work at shallow depth in the Booster Neutrino Beam, a large cosmic rays background ($\sim 11$ kHz) will be present. To reduce it, precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 M. Bonesini , R. Benocci , R. Bertoni , A. Falcone , R. Mazza , M. Torti , A. Menegolli , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella

Main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering using a 20kt liquid-scintillator detector. Its key feature is an excellent energy resolution of at least 3 % at 1 MeV, for which its instruments need to meet a…

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This article describes the design and performance of the muon monitor for the T2K (Tokaito-Kamioka) long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The muon monitor consists of two types of detector arrays: ionization chambers and silicon…

We searched for a sidereal modulation in the rate of neutrinos produced by the NuMI beam and observed by the MINOS far detector. The detection of such harmonic signals could be a signature of neutrino-antineutrino mixing due to Lorentz and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Rebel , S. Mufson

We searched for a sidereal modulation in the rate of neutrinos observed by the MINOS far detector. The detection of these signals could be a signature of neutrino-antineutrino mixing due to Lorentz and CPT violation as described by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Stuart Mufson , Brian Rebel

The main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering with a 20\,kt liquid-scintillator detector. The 20-inch PMT is crucial as one of JUNO key instruments to realize an excellent energy resolution of at least…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-16 Yu Zhang , Zhimn Wang , Min Li , Yongpeng Zhang , Yaoguang Wang , Zhaoyuan Peng , Changgen Yang , Yuekun Heng

Measurements of neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam as observed by the two MINOS detectors are reported. New analysis methods have been applied to an enlarged data sample from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-09 The MINOS Collaboration , P. Adamson , C. Andreopoulos , R. Armstrong , D. J. Auty , D. S. Ayres , C. Backhouse , G. Barr , M. Bishai , A. Blake , G. J. Bock , D. J. Boehnlein , D. Bogert , S. Cavanaugh , D. Cherdack , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , J. A. B. Coelho , S. J. Coleman , L. Corwin , D. Cronin-Hennessy , I. Z. Danko , J. K. de Jong , N. E. Devenish , M. V. Diwan , M. Dorman , C. O. Escobar , J. J. Evans , E. Falk , G. J. Feldman , M. V. Frohne , H. R. Gallagher , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , P. Gouffon , N. Graf , R. Gran , N. Grant , K. Grzelak , A. Habig , D. Harris , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Himmel , A. Holin , X. Huang , J. Hylen , J. Ilic , G. M. Irwin , Z. Isvan , D. E. Jaffe , C. James , D. Jensen , T. Kafka , S. M. S. Kasahara , G. Koizumi , S. Kopp , M. Kordosky , A. Kreymer , K. Lang , G. Lefeuvre , J. Ling , P. J. Litchfield , R. P. Litchfield , L. Loiacono , P. Lucas , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , N. Mayer , A. M. McGowan , R. Mehdiyev , J. R. Meier , M. D. Messier , D. G. Michael , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , J. Mitchell , C. D. Moore , J. Morfín , L. Mualem , S. Mufson , J. Musser , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , H. B. Newman , R. J. Nichol , J. A. Nowak , W. P. Oliver , M. Orchanian , R. Ospanov , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , G. F. Pearce , D. A. Petyt , S. Phan-Budd , R. K. Plunkett , X. Qiu , J. Ratchford , T. M. Raufer , B. Rebel , P. A. Rodrigues , C. Rosenfeld , H. A. Rubin , M. C. Sanchez , J. Schneps , P. Schreiner , P. Shanahan , C. Smith , A. Sousa , P. Stamoulis , M. Strait , N. Tagg , R. L. Talaga , J. Thomas , M. A. Thomson , G. Tinti , R. Toner , G. Tzanakos , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , B. Viren , A. Weber , R. C. Webb , C. White , L. Whitehead , S. G. Wojcicki , T. Yang , R. Zwaska

We searched for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS far detector neutrino rate. Such a signal would be a consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as described by the Standard-Model Extension framework. It also would be the first detection of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-21 MINOS Collaboration , P. Adamson , D. J. Auty , D. S. Ayres , C. Backhouse , G. Barr , W. L. Barrett , M. Bishai , A. Blake , G. J. Bock , D. J. Boehnlein , D. Bogert , C. Bower , S. Budd , S. Cavanaugh , D. Cherdack , S. Childress , B. C. Choudhary , J. A. B. Coelho , J. H. Cobb , S. J. Coleman , L. Corwin , J. P. Cravens , D. Cronin-Hennessy , I. Z. Danko , J. K. de Jong , N. E. Devenish , M. V. Diwan , M. Dorman , C. O. Escobar , J. J. Evans , E. Falk , G. J. Feldman , M. V. Frohne , H. R. Gallagher , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , P. Gouffon , R. Gran , N. Grant , K. Grzelak , A. Habig , D. Harris , P. G. Harris , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Himmel , A. Holin , X. Huang , J. Hylen , J. Ilic , G. M. Irwin , Z. Isvan , D. E. Jaffe , C. James , D. Jensen , T. Kafka , S. M. S. Kasahara , G. Koizumi , S. Kopp , M. Kordosky , Z. Krahn , A. Kreymer , K. Lang , G. Lefeuvre , J. Ling , P. J. Litchfield , L. Loiacono , P. Lucas , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , N. Mayer , A. M. McGowan , R. Mehdiyev , J. R. Meier , M. D. Messier , D. G. Michael , J. L. Miller , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , J. Mitchell , C. D. Moore , L. Mualem , S. Mufson , J. Musser , D. Naples , J. K. Nelson , H. B. Newman , R. J. Nichol , W. P. Oliver , M. Orchanian , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , T. Patzak , G. Pawloski , G. F. Pearce , R. Pittam , R. K. Plunkett , J. Ratchford , T. M. Raufer , B. Rebel , P. A. Rodrigues , C. Rosenfeld , H. A. Rubin , V. A. Ryabov , M. C. Sanchez , N. Saoulidou , J. Schneps , P. Schreiner , V. K. Semenov , P. Shanahan , W. Smart , A. Sousa , M. Strait , N. Tagg , R. L. Talaga , J. Thomas , M. A. Thomson , G. Tinti , R. Toner , G. Tzanakos , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , B. Viren , A. Weber , R. C. Webb , C. White , L. Whitehead , S. G. Wojcicki , D. M. Wright , T. Yang , M. Zois , R. Zwaska

We report on the design and construction of a LED-based fiber calibration system for large liquid argon time projection detectors. This system was developed to calibrate the optical systems of the MicroBooNE experiment. As well as detailing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Conrad , B. J. P. Jones , Z. Moss , T. Strauss , M. Toups

In this paper we present the latest results from the MINOS Experiment. This includes a new measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters based on 3.36 x 10^20 protons-on-target of data and a first analysis of neutral…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-12-18 Hugh Gallagher

The Muon $g-2$ experiment, E989, is currently taking data at Fermilab with the aim of reducing the experimental error on the muon anomaly by a factor of four and possibly clarifying the current discrepancy with the theoretical prediction. A…

The NuMI neutrino beam line and the MINOS experiment represent a major investment of US High Energy Physics in the area of neutrino physics. The forthcoming results could decisively establish neutrino oscillations as the underlying physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Ayres et. al

The Minos+ experiment is an extension of the Minos experiment at a higher energy and more intense neutrino beam, with the data collection having begun in the fall of 2013. The neutrino beam is provided by the Neutrinos from the Main…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 William Badgett , Steve R. Hahn , Donatella Torretta , Jerry Meier , Jeffrey Gunderson , Denise Osterholm , David Saranen

The main goal of the JUNO experiment is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering. To achieve this, an extraordinary energy resolution of at least $3\,\%$ at $1\,$MeV is required for which all parts of the JUNO detector need to meet…