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The monoenergetic 236 MeV muon neutrino from charged kaon decay-at-rest ($K^+ \rightarrow \mu^+ \nu_\mu$) can be used to produce a novel set of cross section measurements. Applicable for short- and long-baseline accelerator-based neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-05-20 J. Spitz

In this paper we present the results from the measurements made with the MUNU TPC at 1bar pressure of CF4 in the energy region below 1 MeV. Electron events down to 80 keV are successfully measured. The electron energy and direction are…

Large-scale detectors consisting of a liquid scintillator target surrounded by an array of photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) are widely used in the modern neutrino experiments: Borexino, KamLAND, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, RENO, and the upcoming…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-15 Arsenii Gavrikov , Yury Malyshkin , Fedor Ratnikov

The Muon Scattering Experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut uses a mixed beam of electrons, muons, and pions, necessitating precise timing to identify the beam particles and reactions they cause. We describe the design and performance of…

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory measured a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in several detection channels. The energy spectrum is fitted as unbroken power-law, but different best-fit parameters were obtained in the various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Joeran Stettner

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multipurpose neutrino-oscillation experiment, with a 20 kiloton liquid scintillator detector of unprecedented 3\% energy resolution (at 1 MeV) at 700-meter deep underground. There…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Miao He

The atmospheric neutrino flux includes a component from the prompt decay of charmed hadrons that becomes significant only at $E\ge 10$ TeV. At these energies, however, the diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos discovered by IceCube seems to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Miguel Gutiérrez , Gerardo Hernández-Tomé , José I. Illana , Manuel Masip

Small-diameter muon drift tube (sMDT) chambers are a cost-effective technology for high-precision muon tracking. The rate capability of the sMDT chambers has been extensively tested at the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN in view of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Oliver Kortner , Hubert Kroha , Felix Müller , Sebastian Nowak , Robert Richter

We study neutrino induced charge current coherent pion production ($\nu_\mu\text{CC-Coh}\pi$) as a tool for constraining the neutrino flux at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). The neutrino energy and flavor in the process can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Mun Jung Jung , Vishvas Pandey , Gray Putnam , David W. Schmitz

The OPERA experiment is based on a hybrid technology combining electronic detectors and nuclear emulsions. OPERA collected muon-neutrino interactions during the 2008 and 2009 physics runs of the CNGS neutrino beam, produced at CERN with an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 OPERA Collaboration

A Neutrino Factory producing an intense beam composed of nu_e(nubar_e) and nubar_mu(nu_mu) from muon decays has been shown to have the greatest sensitivity to the two currently unmeasured neutrino mixing parameters, theta_13 and delta_CP .…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-13 A. Cervera , A. Laing , J. Martin-Albo , F. J. P. Soler

This paper presents the measurement of the scattering of 172 MeV/c muons in assorted materials, including liquid hydrogen, motivated by the need to understand ionisation cooling for muon acceleration. Data are compared with predictions from…

The neutrino mass hierarchy, presently unknown, is a powerful discriminator among various classes of unification theories. We show that the $\nu_{\mu} + \bar{\nu}_\mu$ survival rate in atmospheric events can provide a novel method of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Raj Gandhi , Pomita Ghoshal , Srubabati Goswami , Poonam Mehta , S Uma Sankar

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment. One of the main goals is to determine the neutrino mass ordering by precisely measuring the energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos. For reactor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-28 Cheng-Feng Yang , Yong-Bo Huang , Ji-Lei Xu , Di-Ru Wu , Hao-Qi Lu , Yong-Peng Zhang , Wu-Ming Luo , Miao He , Guo-Ming Chen , Si-Yuan Zhang

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 MACRO experiment detected more than 300000 multiple muon events. We analysed these events to measure the distribution of the separation of underground TeV muons (decoherence function), up to a distance of 70 meters. On a subsample of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sioli

We consider possible detector designs for short-baseline neutrino experiments using neutrino beams produced at the First Muon Collider complex. The high fluxes available at the muon collider make possible high statistics deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-02 Deborah A. Harris , Kevin S. McFarland

In the future several Spallation Source facilities will be available worldwide. Spallation Sources produce large amount of neutrinos from decay-at-rest muons and thus can be well adapted to accommodate state-of-the-art neutrino experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-02 R. Lazauskas , C. Volpe

MINOS will measure the composition of a neutrino beam at two locations, 735km apart, in an effort confirm the (atmospheric) neutrino oscillation hypothesis and measure the associated mixing parameters. Oscillations will be manifested as a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Kordosky

The MUNU detector was designed to study neutrino-electron elastic scattering at low energy. The central component is a Time Projection Chamber filled with CF4 gas, surrounded by an anti-Compton detector. The experiment was carried out at…