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inverse beta decay (ibd) is the dominant mechanism of antineutrino scattering at energies below a few tens of mev. its cross section is currently considered to be known with uncertainty of a fraction of percent. here i point out that in the existing cross-section calculations the vector part of the hadronic current is ... | improved estimate of the cross section for inverse beta decay |
a good understanding of the cross sections for neutrino interactions with nucleons and nuclei is crucial for neutrino oscillation studies, in addition to providing a tool for the exploration of nucleon and nuclear structures. the microboone liquid-argon time-projection-chamber (lartpc) experiment has been taking neutri... | neutrino scattering studies in microboone |
we propose to observe and to study neutrino coherent scattering reaction at spallation neutron source accelerator facility of the oak ridge national laboratory (u.s.a.) using two-phase liquid xenon emission detector. we present expected detector rates for different experimental conditions. | investigation of coherent neutrino scattering at the spallation neutron source |
the neutron scatter camera (nsc) is a neutron spectrometer and imager that has been developed and improved by the sandia national laboratories for several years. built for special nuclear material searches, the instrument was configured by the design to reconstruct neutron sources within the fission energy range 1-10 m... | extension of the neutron scatter camera sensitivity to the ∼10-200 mev neutron energy range |
the paper discusses the two-loop (nnlo) electroweak radiative corrections to the parity-violating moller scattering asymmetry induced by insertions to boxes of electron and neutrino mass operators (fermion self-energies), vertex functions and boson self-energies. the results will be relevant to the ultra-precise 11 gev... | nnlo electroweak corrections for polarized moller scattering: one-loop insertions to boxes |
last year the coherent collaboration was able to measure for the first time the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (ce$\nu$ns). neutrinos within the right energy range can be produced in large quantities at accelerator facilities via pion decay at rest ($\pi$dar) and used to measure ce$\nu$ns. this new channe... | measuring the neutron distribution from coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering |
the microboone neutrino experiment at fermilab is constructing a liquid-argon time-projection chamber for the booster neutrino beam to study neutrino oscillations and interactions with nucleons and nuclei, starting in 2014. we describe the experiment and focus on its unique abilities to measure cross sections at low va... | improving dark matter searches by measuring the nucleon axial form factor: perspectives from microboone |
we identify a number of crystalline structures with promising characteristics to serve as a detection medium for a novel dark matter (dm) detector with a low threshold energy. a detector of this kind can be specifically useful in application requiring the detection of nuclear recoils, such as in direct detection of low... | wide band spectroscopic response of monocrystallines to low dose neutron and gamma radiation |
electron spin flip in atoms or ions can cause neutrino pair emission, which provides a method to explore still unknown important neutrino properties by measuring spectrum of emitted photon in association, when electroweak rates are amplified by a phase coherence among participating atoms. two important remaining neutri... | divalent lanthanoid ions in crystals for neutrino mass spectroscopy |
a multi-functional teaching apparatus has been developed for α and β spectroscopy utilizing a solid-state detector and associated electronics. the possible experiments include conventional measurements to determine α and β decay energies, half lives, characteristic energy loss of nuclear particles in matter, and limits... | a multi-functional apparatus for α and β spectroscopy utilizing a permanent ring-magnet β spectrometer |
the nova neutrino oscillation experiment uses the genie event generator to predict neutrino interactions in its detectors. recent data, recent reanalysis of extant data, and continued development of theoretical models have brought to light deficiencies in the default genie cross section model, which in turn impact the ... | neutrino interaction model tuning at nova |
in accelerator neutrino experiments, neutrino-mixing parameters are extracted from the counting rates of quasielastic (anti)neutrino scattering on nuclear targets. we discuss the uncertainties of these rates in the model approach with an energy-dependent (or running) axial mass of the nucleon. | quasielastic neutrino-nucleus interactions in the empirical model of running axial mass of the nucleon |
icarus is the largest liquid argon tpc detector ever built (∼ 600 ton lar mass). it was smoothly operated underground at the lngs laboratory in gran sasso since summer 2010, up to june 2013, collecting data with the cngs beam and with cosmics. icarus is internationally considered as a milestone towards the realization ... | some recent results from the icarus experiment |
new and more precise measurements of neutrino cross sections in the few gev energy region have renewed interest in a better understanding of electroweak interactions on nucleons and nuclei. this interest comes from neutrino oscillation experiments and their need to reduce systematic errors. neutrino fluxes used in cont... | theoretical challenges in neutrino scattering studies |
non-standard neutrino-nucleon interaction is formulated and explored within the energy range of quasi-elastic scattering. in particular, the study focuses on the neutral-current elastic (anti)neutrino scattering off nucleons described by the exotic reactions $\nu_\alpha ({\bar \nu}_\alpha) + n \rightarrow \nu_\beta ({\... | impact of non-standard interactions on neutrino-nucleon scattering |
we compute the energy spectrum of photons {and neutrinos} produced by the unwinding of a scaling distribution of cosmic textures, and discuss the implications for the spectrum of high energy cosmic rays, and for cmb spectral distortions. textures lead to a contribution to the photon flux which scales as e3 f(e) ~ e3/2.... | cosmic rays and spectral distortions from collapsing textures |
in this paper, we analyze the theoretically possible scenario beyond the standard model in order to show how the presence of the exotic scalar, tensor, {v}+{a} weak interactions in addition to the standard vector-axial ({v}-{a}) ones may help to distinguish the dirac from majorana neutrinos in the elastic scattering of... | azimuthal asymmetry of recoil electrons in neutrino-electron elastic scattering as signature of neutrino nature |
the coherent collaboration is realizing a long term neutrino physics research program. the main goals of the program are to detect and study elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (ceνns). this process is predicted by standard model but it has never been observed experimentally because of the very low energy of the recoil... | coherent experiment: current status |
low energy threshold reactor experiments have the potential to give insight into the light sterile neutrino signal provided by the reactor antineutrino anomaly and the gallium anomaly. in this work we analyze short baseline reactor experiments that detect by elastic neutrino electron scattering in the context of a ligh... | neutrino scattering and the reactor antineutrino anomaly |
direct dark matter searches are nowadays one of the most exciting research topics. several experimental efforts are concentrated on the development, construction, and operation of detectors looking for the scattering of target nuclei with weakly interactive massive particles (wimps). the measurement of the direction of... | newsdm: nuclear emulsions for wimp search with directional measurement |
next generation direct dark matter detectors will have the sensitivity to detect neutrinos from several sources, among which atmospheric and diffuse supernova neutrinos, through the standard model reaction of coherent elastic neutrino scattering on nucleus. this reaction represents an irreducible background that can be... | impact of neutrino background prediction for next generation dark matter xenon detector |
increasing the distance from which an antineutrino detector is capable of monitoring the operation of a registered reactor, or discovering a clandestine reactor, strengthens the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons treaty. this paper presents calculations of reactor antineutrino interactions from quasi-elastic neutrino... | evaluating reactor antineutrino signals for watchman |
the net contribution of the strange quark spins to the proton spin, $\delta s$, can be determined from neutral current elastic neutrino-proton interactions at low momentum transfer combined with data from electron-proton scattering. the probability of neutrino-proton interactions depends in part on the axial form facto... | exploring nucleon spin structure through neutrino neutral-current interactions in microboone |
electron energy and angular distributions in the process of low-energy elastic neutrino-electron scattering are treated in the free-electron approximation. the effects of the millicharges, magnetic, electric, and anapole moments of massive neutrinos along with the flavor change of neutrinos traveling from the source to... | electromagnetic interactions of neutrinos in processes of low-energy elastic neutrino-electron scattering |
we examine neutral-current quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus reactions on 12c and 208pb targets. we use the relativistic mean field theory approach to describe the nuclear dynamics. we compute the cross sections for the scattering of 150, 500 and 1000 mev neutrinos on a 12c target and study the effect of the strange-quark... | quasi-elastic neutrino reactions on carbon and lead nuclei |
muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well characterised neutrino beams of a neutrino factory and for multi-tev lepton-antilepton collisions at a muon collider. the international muon ionization cooling experiment (mice) will demonstrate ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed... | recent results from mice on multiple coulomb scattering and energy loss |
[background] long-baseline experiments such as t2k, nova or the planned deep underground neutrino experiment (dune) require theoretical descriptions of the complete event in a neutrino-nucleus reaction. since nuclear targets are used this requires a good understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions. [purpose] one of ... | muon-neutrino-induced charged current pion production on nuclei |
we study the potential of a detector based on ccd sensors (connie experiment) to study neutrino oscillations to sterile states using reactor neutrinos. we calculate the number of events expected in a 1 kg detector and determine the sensitivity to oscillations νe → νs in the δ m412 vs. sin2 θes parameter space for vario... | potential of ccds for the study of sterile neutrino oscillations via coherent neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering |
nuwro is a neutrino monte carlo generator developed at the wrocław university and used in many studies related with oscillation and cross section experiments. the main focus is on the 1 gev energy region but a wide spectrum of neutrino energies is covered, from 100 mev to tev energies. nuwro is well known for being ver... | nuwro - neutrino monte carlo event generator |
we present the results of a recent study of meson-exchange two-body currents in lepton-nucleus inclusive scattering at various kinematics and for different nuclei within the relativistic fermi gas model. we show that the associated nuclear response functions at their peaks scale as $a k_f^2$, for fermi momentum $k_f$ g... | nuclear dependence of the 2p2h electroweak response in the relativistic fermi gas model |
experiments using nuclei to probe new physics beyond the standard model, such as neutrinoless ββ decay searches testing whether neutrinos are their own antiparticle, and direct detection experiments aiming to identify the nature of dark matter, require accurate nuclear physics input for optimizing their discovery poten... | nuclear physics insights for new-physics searches using nuclei: neutrinoless ββ decay and dark matter direct detection |
neutrinos are a nearly massless, neutral particle in the standard model that only interact via the weak interaction. experimental confirmation of neutrino oscillations, in which a neutrino created as a particular type (electron, muon or tau) can be observed as a different type after propagating some distance, earned th... | measurement of neutrino and antineutrino charged-current inclusive cross sections with the minerva detector |
we present an overview of neutrino-nucleus scattering at low energies with cross sections obtained within a continuum random phase approximation (crpa) formalism. we highlight potential applications of beta-beam neutrino experiments for neutrino astrophysics. our calculations are compared with miniboone data at interme... | low-energy neutrino-nucleus interactions and beta-beam neutrino |
good understanding of the cross sections for (anti)neutrino scattering off nuclear targets in the few-gev energy region is a prerequisite for the correct interpretation of results of ongoing and planned oscillation experiments. to clarify a possible source of disagreement between recent measurements of the cross sectio... | consistent analysis of neutral- and charged-current (anti)neutrino scattering off carbon |
dark matter represents one of the most sought after discoveries in physics, and leading theories predict that extremely low-background detectors could be sensitive to nuclear recoils from dark matter interactions. the pico collaboration uses bubble chambers to look for the energy deposition from such an interaction. ho... | eliminating backgrounds in the search for dark matter with the pico-60 bubble chamber |
neutrino-induced pion production constitutes an important contribution to neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections at intermediate energies. a deep understanding of this process is mandatory for a correct interpretation of neutrino-oscillation experiments. we aim at contributing to the ongoing effort to understand th... | neutrino-induced 1-π production |
we report herein the first-ever measurement of a cross-section for an exclusive state in electron neutrino scattering at the gev scale, which was made using the minernua detector in the numi neutrino beam at fermilab. we present the electron neutrino ccqe differential cross-sections, which are averaged over neutrinos o... | measurement of the charged-current quasi-elastic cross-section for electron neutrinos on a hydrocarbon target |
in this paper, we compute the charged current (cc) cross section of the background processes bar{ν }μ a to μ+ (a - 1)n'π which are involved in the measurement of the oscillation probability p(bar{ν }μto bar{ν }e), for the cp-mirror processes of νμ → νe. we develop a model that takes into account: binding effects, nucle... | incoherent pion production in antineutrino-nucleus scattering within a fermi smearing approach |
next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments, such as dune and hyper-kamiokande, hope to measure charge-parity (cp) violation in the lepton sector. in order to do this, they must dramatically reduce their current levels of uncertainty, particularly those due to neutrino-nucleus interaction models. as cp violation i... | measurement of the antineutrino double-differential charged-current quasi-elastic scattering cross section at minerva |
precise low-energy measurements in nuclear beta-decay provide constraints on possible physics beyond the standard model complementary to high-energy collider experiments. this thesis describes the most precise measurement of the positron asymmetry from a polarized nucleus to date. at the triumf neutral atom trap, atoms... | precise measurement of the beta-asymmetry in the decay of magneto-optically trapped, spin-polarized 37k |
among the direct search experiments for weakly interacting massive particle (wimp) dark matter, the dama experiment observed an annual modulation signal interpreted as wimp interactions with a significance of 9.2σ. recently, jonathan davis claimed that the dama modulation may be interpreted on the basis of the neutron ... | a simulation-based study of the neutron backgrounds for nai dark matter experiments |
x-ray computed tomography (ct) has an indispensable role in constructing 3d images of objects made from light materials. however, limited by absorption coefficients, x-rays cannot deeply penetrate materials such as copper and lead. here we show via simulation that muon beams can provide high resolution tomographic imag... | high resolution muon computed tomography at neutrino beam facilities |
charged-current quasi-elastic (ccqe) neutrino scattering is the signal channel for sterile neutrino oscillation experiments. recent cross-section measurements have made it clear that the current understanding of this channel in the few-gev region is incomplete, and several sophisticated theoretical models have been pro... | effect of cross-section models on the validity of sterile neutrino mixing limits |
we discuss nuclear effects on neutrino-nuclear interactions in a wide kinematical range from shallow to deep inelastic scattering (dis) region. there is necessity from neutrino communities to have precise neutrino-nucleus cross sections for future measurements on neutrino oscillations and leptonic cp violation. we try ... | nuclear effects in deep inelastic scattering and transition region |
germanium detectors with sub-kev sensitivities [1, 2, 3] offer a unique opportunity to study neutrino interactions and properties [4] as well as to search for light wimp dark matter [5, 6]. the texono and cdex collaborations have been pursuing this research program at the kuo-sheng neutrino laboratory in taiwan and in ... | neutrino and dark matter physics with sub-kev germanium detectors |
for low-mass dark matter search, an experiment with a cylindrical 1kg undoped csi crystal coupled directly to two photomultiplier tubes at about 77k was conducted and a light yield of 26.0+/-0.4 photoelectrons per kev electron-equivalent was achieved. the presumed prototype consisted of 10kg undoped csi or nai scintill... | prospect of undoped inorganic crystals at 77 kelvin for low-mass dark matter search and neutrino detection at spallation neutron source |
the electrons for neutrinos project (e4nu) at the thomas jefferson national accelerator facility (jlab) uses wide phase space exclusive electron scattering data from past and future experiments on nuclear targets with the clas and clas12 detector systems to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the interaction of lep... | electrons for neutrinos: new experiments at jefferson lab |
there has been recent interest in low energy, high luminosity polarized electron beams for studies of parity-violating (pv) electron scattering, such as the mesa accelerator at mainz or an upgraded fel facility at jefferson lab. accurate measurements of the pv asymmetry in elastic electron scattering from nuclei can be... | exploiting electron parity violation: from standard model tests to dark matter detection predictions |
we provide a parametric representation of nucleon form factors, uncertainties, and correlations at momentum transfers below a few gev2 incorporating all our knowledge about electromagnetic nucleon structure from electron scattering data and precise charge radii measurements as well as recent advances in radiative corre... | electromagnetic proton form factors for neutrino physics and atomic spectroscopy |
we address techniques to make the theoretical underpinning of neutrino-nucleon scattering more robust. we see this foundation as a necessary step to disentangle fundamental physics (such as neutrino oscillation parameters) from nuclear effects. we address a reanalysis of old experiments with elementary targets, model-i... | neutrino-nucleon interactions and lattice qcd |
neutrino nucleus elastic scattering (υael ) is a well understood standard model process. a generic scale of eυ <50 mev is usually taken to characterize the requirement of coherency in vael process. to quantify this transition, we formulated a universal parametrization of the degree of coherency. the texono experimen... | probing the neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering with point contact germanium detectors and its quantum-mechanical coherency effects |
minerva is a precision cross section experiment for neutrino scattering processes on various nuclei. charged-current quasi-elastic (ccqe) cross sections are relevant for neutrino oscillation experiments such as t2k, nova and dune. this talk describes how minerva's nuclear targets are used to measure the scaling in ccqe... | preliminary results in minerva's nuclear targets for ccqe-like events |
neutrino neutral-current elastic scattering is sensitive to the axial form factor of the proton and affords a unique method to access the strangeness contribution to the axial form factor gas(q2) and to the proton spin δs . the microboone experiment is an 85-ton active mass liquid argon time projection chamber located ... | studying neutral current elastic scattering and the strange axial form factor in microboone |
we propose to measure the γ-ray emission probability from excited states above 5 mev including giant resonance of 16o and 12c as a function of excitation energy in 1-mev step. here, we measure both the excitation energy (ex=5-30mev) at the forward scattering angles (0°-3°) of the 16o, 12c (p, p') reaction using grand-r... | rcnp e398 16o,12c(p,p') experiment: measurement of the γ-ray emission probability from giant resonances in relation to 16o,12c(ν,ν') reactions |
current and future generation neutrino oscillation experiments aim towards a high-precision measurement of the oscillation parameters and that requires an unprecedented understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering. charged-current quasi-elastic (ccqe) scattering is the process in which the neutrino produces a charged l... | first measurement of differential charged current quasielastic-like νμ-argon scattering cross sections with the microboone detector |
lux-zeplin (lz) is a direct detection dark matter experiment, currently under construction 4850ft underground at the sanford underground research facility in lead, sd, usa. at the core of the lz design is a dual-phase liquid xe time projection chamber (tpc) with a 7ton active mass. the lz tpc is optimized to detect low... | impact of nuclear form factors on supernova neutrino detection in lz |
ship is a new general purpose fixed target facility, whose technical proposal has been recently reviewed by the cern sps committee and by the cern research board. the two boards recommended that the experiment proceeds further to a comprehensive design phase in the context of the new cern working group ”physics beyond ... | status and physics of the ship experiment at cern |
we present a comparison of two microscopic models for pion production off nucleons by neutrinos and electrons, paying a special attention to the pion angular distribution in the final pion-nucleon center of mass system. both models predict clear anisotropic distributions in contrast to the ones assumed in some monte ca... | pion angular distributions in pion production off nucleons induced by neutrinos and electrons |
quantum chromodynamics (qcd) is the correct theory of strong interactions. the main direction of investigations in physics of elementary particles and nuclear physics is testing of qcd. qcd predicts that at high energy density there will be a transformation from ordinary nuclear matter to a plasma of free quarks and gl... | monte carlo model for neutrino-nucleus interactions: past, present and future |
in recent years, much effort has been made to better understand the low energy nuclear recoil (nr) response in liquid xenon (lxe), allowing experiments to be increasingly sensitive to light dark matter. we propose a technique for ultra-low energy nr calibration using the recoils imparted to xenon nuclei during the de-e... | a proposal for an ultra-low energy nuclear-recoil calibration in liquid xenon using neutron capture |
understanding how particles behave in detectors is a critical part of analyzing data from neutrino experiments, but neutral particles are difficult to characterize. the purpose of this project was to calibrate the neutron response in quasielastic antineutrino scattering (qe) events in the minerva detector. we applied q... | data driven study of neutron response using quasielastic neutrino scattering in the minerva experiment |
the pico 500 dark matter detector at snolab will be be filled with about one tonne of superheated <strong> c_3f_8 </strong> freon operating at a recoil threshold below 3kev. the new experiment will extend the reach for spin dependent interactions with a planned start of operation in 2019 at snolab. the post... | supernova neutrino sensitivity and physics reach of the pico 500 experiment |
the large flux of mev neutrinos that nuclear reactors generate offer an excellent opportunity to study coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (ceνns), but reactors also produce significant backgrounds. the scintillating bubble chamber (sbc) collaboration is currently constructing a 10-kg liquid argon scintillatin... | reactor ceνns physics reach with an sbc liquid argon bubble chamber |
a technique has been recently proposed to address the main limitations of past neutrino scattering experiments. in particular, it allows precise measurements of high statistics samples of (anti)neutrino-hydrogen interactions and of various nuclear targets. the planned high intensity lbnf beams give access to a broad mi... | precision (anti)neutrino scattering off nucleons and nuclei |
the coherent experiment is designed to measure neutrino scattering at tens of mev on various nuclear targets. coherent is the first experiment that has successfully measured the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering interaction in multiple detectors using neutrinos produced by the spallation neutron source at oa... | simulating the mars detector response to a cf-252 source |
it has been shown that a class of matrix elements of two spatially-separated currents, which are computable directly in lattice qcd, can be factorized into parton distribution functions with calculable hard coefficients; in the same manner as the parton distribution functions are extracted from the hadronic cross secti... | hadron structure from current-current correlation functions in lattice qcd |
high-precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters require a deep understanding of neutrino interactions with the atomic nuclei of detectors. these nuclear effects are one of the main sources of systematic uncertainty in neutrino experiments. to help resolve this, we take advantage of electron-deuteron scat... | benchmarking of neutrino energy reconstruction methods using electron-deuterium scattering data |
extracting neutrino oscillation parameters from experiments such as dune relies on determining the incident neutrino energy for each event individually. we exploited the similarities between electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering to test energy reconstruction techniques using electron data with a known beam energy f... | electrons for neutrinos: lepton energy reconstruction in the resonance excitation region |
ship (search for hidden particles) is a proposed beam dump experiment at cern sps, with the aim of exploring the so-called hidden sector. since a large neutrino flux is expected to be produced at the beam dump, the experiment could also allow for the study of neutrino physics with unprecedented statistics. a dedicated ... | rpcs for the snd muon system of the ship experiment |
the properties of the propagation of scintillations light in the liquid argon, at λ=128 nm wavelength, has been experimentally investigated in a dedicated setup at cern. the velocity of scintillation photons has been measured for the first time in the liquid argon. the obtained result, 1/vg = 7.5 ± 0.1 ns/m, is then us... | propagation of scintillation light in liquid argon |
nova is a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment primarily designed to measure neutrino oscillations. a high purity muon neutrino beam is produced at fermilab with a central energy of approximately 1.8 gev. nova consists of a near detector located 1 km downstream of the beam target at fermilab and a far detector... | status of the measurement of neutrino-electron elastic scattering in the nova near detector |
short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations (srcs) are states in which the wavefunctions of two or more nucleons overlap for a short period of time. this period of strong overlap causes the correlated pair of nucleons to form a quasi-deuteron whose internal relative momentum is larger than the fermi-momentum. when a corre... | studying short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations in ar40 with microboone |
though several measurements of the sodium quenching factor in thallium-doped sodium iodide (nai(tl)) detectors exist, results from current measurements are in disagreement below about 30 kevnr. this discrepancy directly impacts the interpretation of results from nai(tl)-based wimp direct detection and coherent neutrino... | measurement of the sodium quenching factor across multiple nai(tl) detectors |
hamamatsu r11410-20 pmts are used in the red-100 two-phase xenon emission detector built to search for the rare process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering using intense artificial neutrino flux. we demonstrate how to adapt the pmts for their operation under strong illumination caused by electroluminescent ... | performance of hamamatsu r11410-20 pmts under intense illumination in a two-phase cryogenic emission detector |
the snd@lhc detector experiment is located at the large hadron collider (lhc), about 480 m downstream of the atlas interaction point. the detector is designed to measure, for the first time ever, high-energy neutrinos produced at the lhc in the pseudorapidity region of 7.2<η<8.4, which is inaccessible to other lh... | snd@lhc: a new experiment in neutrino physics at the lhc |
the icecube collaboration has recently identified events due to ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions. predictions of the neutrino-nucleon cross section at ultrahigh energies require a huge extrapolation of the cross sections experimentally measured at laboratory energies. upon relating neutrino scattering to deep ine... | problems with ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions |
we investigate the phenomenology of a class of model that at the same time solves the tachyonic slepton problem of the pure anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking (amsb) model and generates neutrino masses. we introduce heavy fields in the seesaw mechanism that are the messengers in the deflected amsb scenario. variou... | seesaw-deflected anomaly mediation and the 125 gev higgs boson |
when studying neutrino oscillations an understanding of charged current quasielastic (ccqe) neutrino-nucleon scattering is imperative. this interaction depends on a nuclear model as well as knowledge of form factors. ccqe data from neutrino scattering off of carbon from the miniboone experiment is analyzed. like we use... | determination of the axial radius in quasielastic neutrino-carbon scattering through z-expansion and the correlated fermi gas nuclear model |
next generation neutrino oscillation experiments are poised to answer key questions about the nature of the neutrino. the axial form factor is a vital ingredient in the nucleon amplitudes used to predict quasielastic scattering, the primary signal measurement process for dune, yet the form factor uncertainty is vastly ... | nucleon axial form factor for neutrino oscillation from lattice qcd |
minerνa is a neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment employing multiple nuclear targets. the experiment is studying neutral pion production due to coherent, resonant and deep-inelastic processes, from both charged current and neutral current reactions. neutral pions are detected through their two photon decay and the re... | coherent and neutral pion production results from minerνa |
minerνa (main injector experiment for ν-a) is a dedicated neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment at fermilab. it uses a fine-grained fully active detector to make precision measurements of neutrino and antineutrino interactions on a variety of different nuclear targets (plastic scintillator, c, fe, pb, he and h2o) for ... | the minerνa detector |
the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cenns) process is important to understand supernovae, nuclear form factors, and low-energy behavior of the standard model. it will also become more important as a background in direct-detection dark matter experiments. the process has yet to be observed because of the l... | coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cenns) experiment at the fermilab booster neutrino beam |
one of the challenges in quantum many-body physics is calculating the electroweak response of a nucleus by fully accounting for the dynamics of its constituent nucleons. electron-scattering experiments have been pivotal to expose the role of nuclear correlations and in particular their spin-isospin dependence in the in... | inclusive lepton-nucleus scattering from quantum monte carlo |
the interpretation of results from current and future neutrino oscillation experiments will necessitate precision descriptions of neutrino-nucleus interactions. the achievement of this goal requires a multidisciplinary effort, with nuclear physics providing input to properly constrain leading systematics. collaboration... | what can electron scattering tell us about neutrino physics? |
the extraction of neutrino mixing parameters from neutrino oscillation experiments relies on the reconstruction of the incident neutrino energy and knowledge of the neutrino-nuclei interaction cross-section. charged current quasi elastic (ccqe) scattering, in which the incoming neutrino knocks out a nucleon and leaves ... | first measurement of differential charged current quasielastic-like νµ-argon scattering cross sections with the microboone detector |
amplitudes derived from scattering data on elementary targets are basic inputs to neutrino-nucleus cross section predictions. a prominent example is the isovector axial nucleon form factor, fa(q2) , which controls charged current signal processes at accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. previous extractio... | deuterium target data for precision neutrino-nucleus cross sections |
neutrino oscillations are an active area of research, with experiments such as dune (deep underground neutrino experiment). dune will make use of large liquid argon detectors to perform a precision measurement of the cp violating phase. hence, an understanding of the argon nuclear ground state and its response to (anti... | coincidence (e,e'p) scattering on 40ar and 48ti to aid precision neutrino oscillation experiments |
germanium detectors with point contact configuration is an exciting detector technology which provides sub-kev sensitivities as low as 100 evee with kg-scale detector mass. this detector technique offers a unique opportunity to realize experiments on dark matter, to enhance the sensitivity of electromagnetic properties... | studies of neutrino interactions at the kuo-sheng neutrino laboratory with sub-kev ge-detectors |
we report new results for the exclusive and quasi-free cross sections off neutrons bound in deuterium γ* n(p) --> pπ-(p) , which are presented over a wide final hadron angle range with a kinematic coverage of the invariant mass (w) up to 1 . 825gev and the virtual photon four-momentum squared (q2) from 0 . 4 to 1 . ... | exclusive π- electroproduction off the neutron in deuterium in the resonance region |
a good knowledge of both inclusive and exclusive neutrino interaction cross sections is one of the key issues for a precise determination of the neutrino oscillation parameters in the t2k experiment. these studies are performed at the near detector (nd280). its central tracker part equipped with a water target is used,... | νμ ccπ° reaction in the tracker of the nd280 detector in the t2k experiment |
the coherent collaboration has proposed to measure coherent, elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (ce νns) cross sections on several nuclear targets using neutrinos produced at the spallation neutron source (sns) located at the oak ridge national laboratory. the largest background of concern arises from beam-induced, fa... | background neutron studies for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering measurements at the sns |
previously, i have studied the photon production in neutral current (nc) neutrino-nucleon (nucleus) scattering, and addressed its relevance to the miniboone anomaly. (miniboone is a short baseline neutrino oscillation experiment at fnal.) in this talk i will review this topic, and discuss its connection to parity viola... | neutrino-nucleon (nucleus) scattering for non-neutrino physics: the case of neutral current induced photon production |
recent anti-neutrino data taken by the t2k experiment is used to measure the ratio of the cross sections for charged current interactions of muon type neutrinos relative to anti-neutrinos. theoretical estimates for charged current quasi-elastic neutrino-quark scattering predict this ratio should be approximately 1/3. t... | anit-nu/nu cross section ratio using p0d+tpc1 events |
this paper presents a design for a horizontal, adjustable path-length attenuation and scattering measurement device that has successfully observed attenuation lengths in excess of 130m in deionized (di) water. absolute measurements of attenuation and scattering in water have proven challenging, and values reported in l... | an apparatus for light attenuation and scattering measurements in highly transparent media |
the suite of detector targets as part of the coherent experimental program includes a ton-scale array of nai[tl] crystals designed to measure coherent elastic-neutrino scattering (cevns) interactions on sodium and to study charged-current neutrino interactions on iodine. the 7.7 kg nai[ti] crystals being used are repur... | characterization of na[ti] crystals for ton-scale detector array |
the study of vector boson scattering (vbs) in zzjj events produced in proton-proton collisions at 13 tev will be reported. data used in analysis were collected by the atlas experiment during run ii and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 140 fb-1. final states with four-charged lepton (4l) or two-charged lep... | study vbs zz production with the atlas experiment |
the coherent collaboration operates a multi-target suite of low-threshold neutrino detectors at the spallation neutron source (sns) at oak ridge national laboratory. these detectors are uniquely equipped to observe the dominant low-energy (eν tens of mev) interaction of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cev... | deployment of coherent multi-tonne nai[tl] detector (naivete) |
for scintillation based detectors, improving intrinsic light yield and light collection effeciency can directly improve sensitivity used in searches for rare physics processes. in my experimentation, a light yield of 23 pe/kev was found with an undoped cesium iodide (csi) crystal coupled to two photomultiplier tubes (p... | measuring the light yield of pure cesium iodide using two photomultiplier tubes at 77 kelvin |
the first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) was made by the coherent collaboration at the oak ridge national laboratory (ornl) spallation neutron source (sns) in august 2017 with a 14.6 kg csi(na) detector. one of the physics goals of the coherent experiment is to test the n2 dependenc... | results of a cevns search with the cenns-10 liquid argon detector |
the nature of dark matter is one of the fundamental questions to be answered. direct dark matter searches are focussed on the development, construction, and operation of detectors looking for the scattering of weakly interactive massive particles (wimps) with target nuclei. the measurement of the direction of wimp-indu... | directional detection of dark matter with a nuclear emulsion based detector |
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