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Low mass nuclear recoil dark matter and coherent-elastic-neutrino-nucleus-scattering (CENNS) searches confront similar challenges in choosing ultra-low threshold and large-mass detectors. We report experimental results from the…

A long-standing limitation of semiconductor neutron detectors is the lack of a scalable solution to make large area instruments. Neutron detectors are used in a wide range of applications, including the nuclear industry, safeguarding…

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The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory is a Cherenkov detector instrumented in a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. IceCube's primary scientific goal is the detection of TeV neutrino emissions from astrophysical sources. At the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-01 Shiqi Yu , Jessie Micallef

A new type of radiation detector based on a spherical geometry is presented. The detector consists of a large spherical gas volume with a central electrode forming a radial electric field. Charges deposited in the conversion volume drift to…

The detection of CP violation in neutrino oscillations is one of the most important goals of the next generation of neutrino experiments. Here we study the detectability of the CP-violating phase in the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-16 Thilo Birkenfeld , Achim Stahl

The T2K near detectors provide a rich facility for measuring neutrino interactions in a high-flux environment. This talk will discuss the near detector CC-inclusive normalization analysis for the T2K oscillation result in detail, along with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Daniel G. Brook-Roberge

The EUROnu Super Beam work package has studied a neutrino beam based on SPL at CERN and aimed at MEMPHYS, a large water Cherenkov detector, proposed for the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (Fr\'ejus tunnel, France), with a baseline of 130…

The exciting possibility of detecting supernova, solar, and atmospheric neutrinos with coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering detectors is within reach, opening up new avenues to probe New Physics. We explore the possibility of constraining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Anna M. Suliga , Irene Tamborra

Probably the most promising way of detecting cosmic neutrinos is measuring the mechanical force exerted by elastic scattering of cosmic neutrinos from macroscopic targets. The expected acceleration is $\sim 10^{-23} cm/s^2$ for Dirac…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Hagmann

Coherent scattering is a flavor-blind, high-rate, as yet undetected neutrino interaction predicted by the Standard Model. We propose to use a compact (kg-scale), two-phase (liquid-gas) argon ionization detector to measure coherent neutrino…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Chris Hagmann , Adam Bernstein

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an experimental project designed to determine the neutrino mass ordering and probe the fundamental properties of the neutrino oscillations. The JUNO central detector is a spherical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 X. Fang , Y. Zhang , G. H. Gong , G. F. Cao , T. Lin , C. W. Yang , W. D. Li

The New Experiments With Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) collaboration intends to achieve $\mathrm{sub-GeV/c^{2}}$ Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) detection using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs). SPCs are gaseous detectors relying…

This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles…

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The acoustic neutrino detection technique is a promising approach for future large-scale detectors with the aim of measuring the small expected flux of neutrinos at energies in the EeV-range and above. The technique is based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Robert Lahmann

We propose that neutrino-proton elastic scattering, $\nu + p \to \nu + p$, can be used for the detection of supernova neutrinos in scintillator detectors. Though the proton recoil kinetic energy spectrum is soft, with $T_p \simeq 2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 John F. Beacom , Will M. Farr , Petr Vogel

The SoLid experiment aims to resolve the reactor neutrino anomaly by searching for electron-to-sterile anti-neutrino oscillations. The search will be performed between 5.5 and 10 m from the highly enriched uranium core of the BR2 reactor at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Nick Ryder

Coherent elastic neutrino- and WIMP-nucleus interaction signatures are expected to be quite similar. This paper discusses how a next generation ton-scale dark matter detector could discover neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-07 A. J. Anderson , J. M. Conrad , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , K. Scholberg , J. Spitz

We study the prospects of detecting signals of a resonant scattering of high-energy cosmic neutrinos on electrons in the atmosphere. Such a process is possible through an s-channel exchange of a isotriplet scalar particle predicted by some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Lars Brücher , Petteri Keränen , Jukka Maalampi

The LSND experiment has observed a 3.8 sigma excess of anti-nu_e events from an anti-nu_mu beam coming from pions at rest. If confirmed, the LSND anomaly would imply new physics beyond the standard model, presumably in the form of some…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-08 B. Baibussinov , E. Calligarich , S. Centro , D. Gibin , A. Guglielmi , F. Pietropaolo , C. Rubbia , P. Sala

We report on the design, production, and performance of compact 40-cm$^3$ Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) that detect fast neutrons by measuring the three-dimensional (3D) ionization distribution of nuclear recoils in $^4$He:CO$_2$ gas at…