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nuSTORM - Neutrinos from STORed Muons: Proposal to the Fermilab PAC

The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos (and their anti-particles) from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum acceptance of 10%. The…

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Design, Status and Physics Potential of JUNO

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multi-purpose liquid scintillator detector currently being built in a dedicated underground laboratory in Jiangmen (PR China). Data-taking is expected to start in 2023.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-19 Hans Th. J. Steiger

Chooz and Perry: New Experiments for Long Baseline Reactor Neutrino Oscillations

We discuss the Chooz experiment, a long baseline search for neutrino vacuum oscillations, which will utilize a large gadolinium-loaded liquid scintillation detector one km from a large nuclear power station in France. The 300-meter (water…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Steinberg

Detection techniques and investigation of different neutrino experiments

Neutrino physics is an experimentally driven field. So, we investigate the different detection techniques available in the literature and study the various neutrino oscillation experiments in a chronological manner. Our primary focus is on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-01 Ankur Nath , Ng. K. Francis

Search for active neutrino disappearance using neutral-current interactions in the MINOS long-baseline experiment

We report the first detailed comparisons of the rates and spectra of neutral-current neutrino interactions at two widely separated locations. A depletion in the rate at the far site would indicate mixing between muon neutirnos and a sterile…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Adamson

Status of a Deep Learning Based Measurement of the Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged-current Cross Section in the NOvA Near Detector

NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. It uses the NuMI beam from Fermilab and two sampling calorimeter detectors placed off-axis from the beam. The 293 ton Near Detector measures the unoscillated neutrino energy spectrum,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-12 Biswaranjan Behera

A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam

A Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) physics program of three LAr-TPC detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab is presented. This new SBN Program will deliver a rich and compelling physics opportunity, including the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-17 R. Acciarri , C. Adams , R. An , C. Andreopoulos , A. M. Ankowski , M. Antonello , J. Asaadi , W. Badgett , L. Bagby , B. Baibussinov , B. Baller , G. Barr , N. Barros , M. Bass , V. Bellini , P. Benetti , S. Bertolucci , K. Biery , H. Bilokon , M. Bishai , A. Bitadze , A. Blake , F. Boffelli , T. Bolton , M. Bonesini , J. Bremer , S. J. Brice , C. Bromberg , L. Bugel , E. Calligarich , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , B. Carls , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , H. Chen , C. Chi , E. Church , D. Cianci , A. G. Cocco , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , G. De Geronimo , A. Dermenev , R. Dharmapalan , S. Dixon , Z. Djurcic , S. Dytmam , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , J. Esquivel , J. Evans , A. Falcone , C. Farnese , A. Fava , A. Ferrari , B. T. Fleming , W. M. Foreman , J. Freestone , T. Gamble , G. Garvey , V. Genty , M. Geynisman , D. Gibin , S. Gninenko , D. Göldi , S. Gollapinni , N. Golubev , M. Graham , E. Gramellini , H. Greenlee , R. Grosso , R. Guenette , A. Guglielmi , A. Hackenburg , R. Hänni , O. Hen , V Hewes , J. Ho , G. Horton-Smith , J. Howell , A. Ivashkin , C. James , C. M. Jen , R. A. Johnson , B. J. P. Jones , J. Joshi , H. Jostlein , D. Kaleko , L. N. Kalousis , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , M. Kirsanov , J. Kisiel , J. Klein , J. Klinger , T. Kobilarcik , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , V. A. Kudryavtsev , Y. Li , B. Littlejohn , D. Lissauer , P. Livesly , S. Lockwitz , W. C. Louis , M. Lüthi , B. Lundberg , F. Mammoliti , G. Mannocchi , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , J. Marshall , K. Mavrokoridis , N. McCauley , N. McConkey , K. McDonald , V. Meddage , A. Menegolli , G. Meng , I. Mercer , T. Miao , T. Miceli , G. B. Mills , D. Mladenov , C. Montanari , D. Montanari , J. Moon , M. Mooney , C. Moore , Z. Moss , M. H. Moulai , S. Mufson , R. Murrells , D. Naples , M. Nessi , M. Nicoletto , P. Nienaber , B. Norris , F. Noto , J. Nowak , S. Pal , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , V. Papavassiliou , S. Pate , J. Pater , Z. Pavlovic , J. Perkin , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , P. Płoński , S. Pordes , R. Potenza , G. Pulliam , X. Qian , L. Qiuguang , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , R. Rameika , A. Rappoldi , G. L. Raselli , P. N. Ratoff , B. Rebel , M. Richardson , L. Rochester , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , C. Rudolf von Rohr , B. Russell , P. Sala , A. Scaramelli , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , B. Sippach , E. Snider , J. Sobczyk , M. Soderberg , S. Söldner-Rembold , M. Spanu , J. Spitz , N. Spooner , D. Stefan , J. St. John , T. Strauss , R. Sulej , C. M. Sutera , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , C. E. Taylor , K. Terao , M. Thiesse , L. Thompson , M. Thomson , C. Thorn , M. Torti , F. Tortorici , M. Toups , C. Touramanis , Y. Tsai , T. Usher , R. Van de Water , F. Varanini , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli , T. Wachala , M. Weber , D. Whittington , P. Wilson , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , K. Woodruff , M. Xu , T. Yang , B. Yu , A. Zani , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

Supernova Neutrinos, LSND and MiniBooNE

The unique constraints on neutrino oscillations which can be obtained by measuring the energy spectrum of supernova $\bar{\nu}_e$'s are first discussed. The focus is on 4-neutrino mass and mixing models capable of explaining the LSND…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michel Sorel

The Search for Neutrino Oscillations numubar->nuebar with KARMEN

The neutrino experiment KARMEN is situated at the beam stop neutrino source ISIS. It provides numu's, nue's and numubar's in equal intensities from the pi+ mu+ decay at rest (DAR). The oscillation channel numub->nueb is investigated in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Eitel , B. Zeitnitz

The Nemo-3 Experiment and the Supernemo Project

The NEMO experiment is investigating the neutrinoless double beta decay. The NEMO-3 detector is taking data in the Frejus Underground Laboratory. The goal of the SuperNEMO detector is to reach a sensitivity on the order of 10^26 year on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-06 Laurent Simard

Oscillations and Cross Sections at the SNS with a Large Cerenkov Detector

MiniBooNE at FermiLab should be able to confirm or refute the LSND Decay-in-Flight $\nu_\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillation signal within a few years. The primary evidence of neutrino oscillations from the LSND was in the anti-neutrino channel…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon J. VanDalen

Status and physics potential of the JUNO experiment

(On behalf of the JUNO Collaboration) The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an underground 20 kton liquid scintillator detector being built in the south of China and expected to start data taking in 2020. JUNO has a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-01-18 Giuseppe Salamanna

Optimization Studies for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility at Fermilab

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (DUNE-LBNF) are under development at Fermilab since early 2010s [1]. At present, the work is being performed towards a comprehensive review conducted by US…

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Future Atmospheric Neutrino Detectors

Future experiments focusing on atmospheric neutrino detection are reviewed. One of the main goals of these experiments is the detection of an unambiguous oscillation pattern (nu_mu reappearance) to prove the oscillation hypothesis. Further…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-26 A. Geiser

Long-Range Lepton Flavor Interactions and Neutrino Oscillations

Recent results from the MINOS accelerator neutrino experiment suggest a possible difference between nu_mu and anti-nu_mu disappearance oscillation parameters, which one may ascribe to a new long-distance potential acting on neutrinos. As a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-09 Hooman Davoudiasl , Hye-Sung Lee , William J. Marciano

The NuMI Neutrino Flux Prediction at ICARUS

DUNE is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment seeking to probe fundamental symmetries within the structure of the PMNS mixing matrix, and perform precision measurements its parameters including the neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-15 Anthony Wood

First search for sterile neutrino oscillation leading to $\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance in the Booster Neutrino Beam at ICARUS

We present a search for muon neutrino disappearance in the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab using the ICARUS detector. Neutrino interactions identified as muon neutrinos interacting with argon nuclei via the charged current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-25 ICARUS Collaboration

Implementation of an upward-going muon trigger for indirect dark matter searches at the NO$\nu$A far detector

The NO$\nu$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution…

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New results on $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ appearance with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

The OPERA neutrino experiment is designed to perform the first observation of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ channel, via the detection of the $\tau$-leptons created in charged current…

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Synchronization of the Fermilab Booster and Main Injector for Multiple Batch Injection

To date, the 120 GeV Fermilab Main Injector accelerator has accelerated a single batch of protons from the 8 GeV rapid-cycling Booster synchrotron for production of antiprotons for Run II. In the future, the Main Injector must accelerate 6…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Zwaska , S. Kopp , W. Pellico , R. Webber