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ORCA (Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) is the low-energy node of KM3NeT, the next generation underwater Cherenkov neutrino detector in the Mediterranean sea. The primary goal of KM3NeT-ORCA is the determination of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-13 Nafis Rezwan Khan Chowdhury

A novel low-energy neutrino-oscillation experiment NOSTOS, combining a strong tritium source and a high pressure spherical TPC detector (10 m in radius) has been recently proposed. The goal of the experiment is to measure the mixing angle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Giomataris , S. Aune , P. Colas , I. Irastorza , B. Peyaud , J. Dolbeau , P. Gorodetzky , H. van der Graff , T. Patzak , P. Salin , V. Lepeltier , J. D. Vergados

The OPERA collabotation has reported evidence of superluminal neutrinos with a mean energy 17.5 GeV ranging up to 50 GeV. However, the superluminal interpretation of the OPERA results has been recently refuted theoretically by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-01 Ichiro Oda , Hajime Taira

A conceptual scheme of a hybrid-emulsion spectrometer for investigating various channels of neutrino oscillations is proposed. The design emphasizes detection of $\tau$ leptons by detached vertices, reliable identification of electrons, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Asratyan , G. V. Davidenko , A. G. Dolgolenko , V. S. Kaftanov , M. A. Kubantsev , V. S. Verebryusov

Neutrino oscillation results from several experiments and sources are discussed. Recent results from solar neutrino measurements by Super-Kamiokande and Borexino, atmospheric neutrino measurements from Super-Kamiokande, and accelerator…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-01-18 Yusuke Koshio

The first phase of the long-baseline neutrino experiment, LBNE10, will use a broadband, high-energy neutrino beam with a 10-kt liquid argon TPC at 1300 km to study neutrino oscillation. In this paper, we describe potential upgrades to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-07-04 M. Bishai , M. Diwan , S. Kettell , J. Stewart , R. Tschirhart , B. Viren , L. Whitehead , E. Worcester

A brief overview of the development of neutrino detectors for long-baseline oscillation experiments at accelerators and reactors is presented. Basic principles and main features of detectors of running accelerator experiments T2K and NOvA…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Yury Kudenko

We show that special relativity (SR) may be consistent with the OPERA measurements of the neutrino velocity provided the latter is corrected for the second order term in V^2/c^2 implied by the velocity, V, of the alpha particles from…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-19 Jean-Paul Mbelek

In this report a potential problem in the data analysis of the OPERA experiment is discussed: the main issue is that the quantity \partial t used in the maximum likelihood procedure is not a "true" parameter of the parent-distribution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-11-08 Pierluigi Frabetti , Leonid Chernenko

In this document we will review the current status of reactor neutrino oscillation experiments and present their physics potentials for measuring the $\theta_{13}$ neutrino mixing angle. The neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ is currently…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-03-02 C. Mariani

The GERDA collaboration is performing a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{76}Ge with the eponymous detector. The experiment has been installed and commissioned at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and has started…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-10 GERDA Collaboration , K. -H. Ackermann , M. Agostini , M. Allardt , M. Altmann , E. Andreotti , A. M. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , I. Barabanov , M. Barnabe Heider , N. Barros , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , N. Becerici-Schmidt , E. Bellotti , S. Belogurov , S. T. Belyaev , G. Benato , A. Bettini , L. Bezrukov , T. Bode , V. Brudanin , R. Brugnera , D. Budjas , A. Caldwell , C. Cattadori , A. Chernogorov , O. Chkvorets , F. Cossavella , A. D`Andragora , E. V. Demidova , A. Denisov , A. di Vacri , A. Domula , V. Egorov , R. Falkenstein , A. Ferella , K. Freund , F. Froborg , N. Frodyma , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , J. Gasparro , S. Gazzana , R. Gonzalez de Orduna , P. Grabmayr , V. Gurentsov , K. Gusev , K. K. Guthikonda , W. Hampel , A. Hegai , M. Heisel , S. Hemmer , G. Heusser , W. Hofmann , M. Hult , L. V. Inzhechik , L. Ioannucci , J. Janicsko Csalty , J. Jochum , M. Junker , R. Kankanyan , S. Kianovsky , T. Kihm , J. Kiko , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. Kirsch , A. Klimenko , M. Knapp , K. T. Knöpfle , O. Kochetov , V. N. Kornoukhov , K. Kröninger , V. Kusminov , M. Laubenstein , A. Lazzaro , V. I. Lebedev , B. Lehnert , D. Lenz , H. Liao , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , J. Liu , X. Liu , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , A. A. Machado , B. Majorovits , W. Maneschg , G. Marissens , S. Mayer , G. Meierhofer , I. Nemchenok , L. Niedermeier , S. Nisi , J. Oehm , C. O'Shaughnessy , L. Pandola , P. Peiffer , K. Pelczar , A. Pullia , S. Riboldi , F. Ritter , C. Rossi Alvarez , C. Sada , M. Salathe , C. Schmitt , S. Schönert , J. Schreiner , J. Schubert , O. Schulz , U. Schwan , B. Schwingenheuer , H. Seitz , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , H. Simgen , A. Smolnikov , L. Stanco , F. Stelzer , H. Strecker , M. Tarka , U. Trunk , C. A. Ur , A. A. Vasenko , S. Vogt , O. Volynets , K. von Sturm , V. Wagner , M. Walter , A. Wegmann , M. Wojcik , E. Yanovich , P. Zavarise , I. Zhitnikov , S. V. Zhukov , D. Zinatulina , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

ORKA is an experiment to observe of order 1000 K+ -> pi+ nu nubar events and to make a precision measurement of the branching fraction. It has been proposed to run at Fermilab using the Main Injector. This note describes ORKA and its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Jack L. Ritchie

Prospect measurements of neutrino oscillations with reactor neutrinos are reviewed in this document. The following items are described: neutrinos oscillations status, reactor neutrino experimental strategy, impact of uncertainties on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Anatael Cabrera

Driven by new experimental results, in the latest period several new neutrino oscillation experiments have been proposed. I will outline the main ideas behind the different proposals, in particular concerning atmospheric neutrinos and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Campanelli

Neutrino oscillations are studied employing sources of low energy monoenergetic neutrinos following electron capture by the nucleus and measuring electron recoils. Since the neutrino energy is very low the oscillation length appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-27 J. D. Vergados , Y. Giomataris , Yu. N. Novikov

Modernized version of the combined opto-acoustical gravitational wave detector OGRAN is presented. Located in the deep underground of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory this setup is aimed to work on the program of collapsing stars searching…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-18 V. N. Rudenko , Yu. M. Gavrilyuk , A. V. Gusev , D. P. Krichevskiy , S. I. Oreshkin , S. M. Popov , I. S. Yudin

The decay of neutrino mass eigenstates leads to a change of the conversion and survival probability of neutrino flavor eigenstates. Remarkably, we find that the neutrino decay provides an enhancement of the expected tau appearance signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Giulia Pagliaroli , Natalia Di Marco , Massimo Mannarelli

This paper summarizes the details of the Reactor Experiment for Neutrinos and Exotics (RENE) experiment. It covers the detector construction, Monte Carlo (MC) simulation study, and physics expectations. The primary goal of the RENE project…

The study of neutrino oscillation at accelerators is limited by systematic uncertainties, in particular on the neutrino flux, cross-section, and energy estimates. These systematic uncertainties could be eliminated by a novel experimental…

SHIP is a new general purpose fixed target facility, proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator. In five years, $2\times 10^{20}$ protons of 400 GeV/c momentum will be dumped on a Molybdenum target. A detector downstream of the target will allow…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Annarita Buonaura