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The ANTARES Collaboration is aiming at the construction and the operation of a large undersea neutrino telescope for neutrino astronomy, neutrino oscillation and indirect dark matter searches. Started 3 years ago an intensive R&D program…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Montanet

We systematically investigate the prospects of testing new physics with tau sensitive near detectors at neutrino oscillation facilities. For neutrino beams from pion decay, from the decay of radiative ions, as well as from the decays of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Stefan Antusch , Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Toshihiko Ota

A next-generation neutrino telescope infrastructure, the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope KM3NeT, is currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. Its low energy configuration ORCA is optimised for the detection of atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Piotr Kalaczyński

NOvA is a long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment that is optimized for $\nu_\mu\to\nu_e$ measurements. It uses the upgraded NuMI beam from Fermilab and measures electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-05 Jianming Bian

Scientists from the OPERA experiment have measured neutrinos supposedly travelling at a velocity faster than light contrary to the theory of relativity. Even when the measurements are precise, the interpretation of this problem is being…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 J. Manuel Garcia-Islas

The OPERA collaboration has announced to have observed superluminal neutrinos with a mean energy 17.5 GeV, but afterward the superluminal interpretation of the OPERA results has been refuted theoretically by Cherenkov-like radiation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Ichiro Oda

The purpose of this work is to report the measurement of a time-shift in the OPERA set-up in a totally independent way from Time Of Flight (TOF) measurements of CNGS neutrino events. The LVD and OPERA experiments are both installed in the…

An event topology with two secondary vertices compatible with the decay of short-lived particles was found in the analysis of neutrino interactions in the Opera target. The observed topology is compatible with tau neutrino charged current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 N. Agafonova , A. Alexandrov , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , A. Buonaura , S. Buontempo , M. Chernyavskiy , A. Chukanov , L. Consiglio , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , P. del Amo Sanchez , A. Di Crescenzo , D. Di Ferdinando , N. Di Marco , S. Dmitrievsky , M. Dracos , D. Duchesneau , S. Dusini , T. Dzhatdoev , J. Ebert , A. Ereditato , R. A. Fini , F. Fornari , T. Fukuda , G. Galati , A. Garfagnini , V. Gentile , J. Goldberg , S. Gorbunov , Y. Gornushkin , G. Grella , A. M. Guler , C. Gustavino , C. Hagner , T. Hara , T. Hayakawa , A. Hollnagel , K. Ishiguro , A. Iuliano , K. Jakovč ić , C. Jollet , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , S. H. Kim , N. Kitagawa , B. Klič ek , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , F. Laudisio , A. Lauria , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , A. Malgin , G. Mandrioli , T. Matsuo , V. Matveev , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , A. Meregaglia , S. Mikado , M. Miyanishi , F. Mizutani , P. Monacelli , M. C. Montesi , K. Morishima , M. T. Muciaccia , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , K. Niwa , S. Ogawa , N. Okateva , K. Ozaki , A. Paoloni , L. Paparella , B. D. Park , L. Pasqualini , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , H. Pessard , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , F. Pupilli , M. Roda , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , O. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , A. Schembri , I. Shakiryanova , T. Shchedrina , E. Shibayama , H. Shibuya , T. Shiraishi , S. Simone , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , A. Sotnikov , M. Spinetti , L. Stanco , N. Starkov , S. M. Stellacci , M. Stipč ević , P. Strolin , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , V. Tioukov , S. Vasina , P. Vilain , E. Voevodina , L. Votano , J. L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , C. S. Yoon

KM3NeT-ORCA is a water-Cherenkov neutrino detector designed for studying the oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos, with the primary objective of measuring the neutrino mass ordering. Atmospheric neutrinos crossing the Earth undergo matter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Simon Bourret , João A. B. Coelho , Véronique Van Elewyck

The set of kinetic equations describing the process of conversion of a beam of protons into mesons and then to neutrinos is solved. The asymptotic evolution of the density profile of neutrinos is essentially the same as that obtained in the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-10-18 Robert Alicki

We argue that the result quoted by the OPERA Collaboration cannot be interpreted as simply related to the muon neutrino moving at a superluminal velocity from the point of creation at CERN to the point of interaction at LNGS.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-09-27 Jacek Ciborowski , Jakub Rembielinski

In this paper, we consider the apparent superluminal speed of neutrinos in their travel from CERN to Gran Susso, as measured by the OPERA experiment, within the framework of the Extended Lorentz Transformation Model. The model is based on a…

General Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 S. Hamieh

The NOvA experiment observes oscillations in two channels (electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance) using a predominantly muon-neutrino NuMI beam. The Near Detector records multiple overlapping neutrino interactions in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-12 Biswaranjan Behera , Gavin Davies , Fernanda Psihas

We compare the physics potential of two representative options for a SuperBeam in Europe, studying the achievable precision at 1\sigma with which the CP violation phase (\delta) could be measured, as well as the mass hierarchy and CP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Pilar Coloma , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Luis Labarga

The NINJA experiment aims to precisely measure neutrino-nucleus interactions using a nuclear emulsion detector to reduce systematic errors in neutrino oscillation experiments. The nuclear emulsion has a sub-micron positional resolution,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-09 Naoki Otani

The OPERA collaboration has reported the observation of superluminal muon neutrinos, whose speed $v_\nu$ exceeds that of light $c$, with $(v_\nu - c)/c \simeq 2.5 \times 10^{-5}$. In a recent work, Cohen and Glashow (CG) have refuted this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Hooman Davoudiasl , Thomas G. Rizzo

Various approaches aim to describe the recent analysis by the OPERA experiment, which indicates that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light. We demonstrate that any such theoretical or experimental explanation must not destroy the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Walter Winter

The $\nu$SOL experiment to operate a neutrino detector close to the Sun is building a small test detector to orbit the Earth to test the concept in space. This detector concept is to provide a new way to detect neutrinos unshielded in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-14 Nickolas Solomey

KM3NeT, currently under construction in the abysses of the Mediterranean Sea, is a distributed research infrastructure that will host a km3-scale neutrino telescope (ARCA) for high-energy neutrino astronomy, and a megaton scale detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 Paschal Coyle

Modern proposed atmospheric neutrino oscillation experiments, such as PINGU in the Antarctic ice or ORCA in Mediterranean sea water, aim for precision measurements of the oscillation parameters including the ordering of the neutrino masses.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-06 Walter Winter