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We previously developed an automatic track scanning system which enables the detection of large-angle nuclear fragments in the nuclear emulsion films of the OPERA experiment. As a next step, we have investigated this system's track…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Fukuda , S. Fukunaga , H. Ishida , T. Matsumoto , T. Matsuo , S. Mikado , S. Nishimura , S. Ogawa , H. Shibuya , J. Sudou , A. Ariga , S. Tufanli

Reactor antineutrino experiments have the ability to search for neutrino oscillations independent of reactor flux predictions using a relative measurement of the neutrino flux and spectrum across a range of baselines. The range of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-07-11 K. M. Heeger , B. R. Littlejohn , H. P. Mumm

OPERA is a long-baseline experiment designed to search for $\nu_{\mu}\to\nu_{\tau}$ oscillations in appearance mode. It was based at the INFN Gran Sasso laboratory (LNGS) and took data from 2008 to 2012 with the CNGS neutrino beam from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-19 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 , J. Favier , 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. Jakovcic , C. Jollet , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , S. H. Kim , N. Kitagawa , B. Klicek , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , F. Laudisio , A. Lauria , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , M. Malenica , 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 , A. Olchevsky , N. Okateva , K. Ozaki , A. Paoloni , L. Paparella , B. D. Park , L. Pasqualini , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , H. Pessard , C. Pistillo , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , F. Pupilli , M. Roda , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , O. Ryazhskaya , A. Sadovsky , 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. Stipcevic , P. Strolin , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , V. Tioukov , S. Tufanli , A. Ustyuzhanin , S. Vasina , P. Vilain , E. Voevodina , L. Votano , J. L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , B. Wonsak , C. S. Yoon

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

The OPERA neutrino detector at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in appearance mode, through the study of nu_mu to nu_tau oscillations. The apparatus consists…

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

The present paper highlights the data analysis status of the OPERA experiment. The experiment was designed to perform the neutrino interactions analysis on event-by-event basis, and optimized to search for $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{\tau}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 T. A. Dzhatdoev , V. L. Troshina

The OPERA long baseline experiment located in the INFN Gran Sasso underground Laboratory was designed to establish the $\nu_{\mu}$ $\rightarrow$ $\nu_{\tau}$ oscillations in appearance mode, using the CNGS neutrino beam. Five $\nu_{\tau}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-05 Donato Di Ferdinando

The next generation of very-short-baseline reactor experiments will require compact detectors operating at surface level and close to a nuclear reactor. This paper presents a new detector concept based on a composite solid scintillator…

Developing neutrino astronomy requires a good understanding of the neutrino oscillations mechanism. The European strategy for neutrino oscillation physics sets a high priority on future long baseline neutrino experiments with the aim to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-13 Sampsa Vihonen

Precise measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions with an accelerator neutrino beam is highly important for current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. To measure muon-neutrino charged-current interactions with…

A new high-precision detector for studying neutrons from beta-delayed neutron emission and direct reaction studies is proposed. The Neutron dEtector with Xn Tracking (NEXT) array is designed to maintain high intrinsic neutron detection…

Conceiving the possibility of using plastic scintillator bars as robust detectors for antineutrino detection for the remote reactor monitoring and nuclear safeguard application we study expected basic performance by Monte Carlo simulation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-20 A. Sh. Georgadze , V. M. Pavlovych , O. A. Ponkratenko , D. A. Litvinov

We introduce a novel approach that utilizes neutrino events from the off-axis near detector to investigate the beam profile in long-baseline neutrino experiments. Understanding the dynamics of the neutrino beam is crucial for improving the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-13 Svetlana Karpova , Federico Sánchez , Dana Douqa

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

This report describes an apparatus that could be used to measure both the identity and charge of an outgoing lepton in a charged current neutrino interaction. This capability in a massive detector would allow the most comprehensive set of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 D. A. Harris , A. Para

The project OptoTracker aims to investigate a new approach to track charged particles in a scintillating material, by using the optical signal. Our idea is to reconstruct the trajectory of a charged particle by collecting the scintillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-10 A. Celentano

A review of accelerator long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments is provided, including all experiments performed to date and the projected sensitivity of those currently in progress. Accelerator experiments have played a crucial role…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-09 G. J. Feldman , J. Hartnell , T. Kobayashi

The large next generation liquid-scintillator detector LENA (Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy) offers an excellent opportunity for neutrino oscillometry. The characteristic spatial pattern of very low monoenergetic neutrino disappearance from…

The OPERA neutrino detector in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode through the study of the $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\tau$ channel.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-01-17 N. Agafonova et al.

Based on the developed cross-correlation theory for remote location of neutrino source with two-detector setup for neutrino detection the modification of arrangement of the OPERA experiment is suggested. Within the framework of computing…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-04-25 V. D. Rusov , V. I. Vysotskii , V. A. Tarasov , I. V. Sharph , V. P. Smolyar , T. N. Zelentsova , K. K. Merkotan , E. P. Linnik , M. E. Beglaryan