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this work is a part of the red-100 big project. the aim of the red-100 experiment is to detect the presently undiscovered coherent neutrino scattering off xenon atomic nuclei. the manufacture of such detectors requires ultrapure materials with very low content of natural radioactive elements. so the pure titanium was s...
the approach to reducing the detection limit for la-icp-ms
the coherent collaboration is deploying a suite of low-threshold detectors at the sns in a low-background corridor to detect coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cevns), to measure the n2-dependence of the cross section, and to search for physics beyond the standard model. these detectors must be low-threshold...
detectors for the coherent neutrino experiment
we report on an update (2021) of a phenomenological model for inelastic neutrino- and electron-nucleon scattering cross sections using effective leading order parton distribution functions with a new scaling variable ξw. non-perturbative effects are well described using the ξw scaling variable in combination with multi...
inelastic axial and vector structure functions for lepton-nucleon scattering 2021 update
the precise measurement of neutrino properties is among the highest priorities in fundamental particle physics, involving many experiments worldwide. since the experiments rely on the interactions of neutrinos with bound nucleons inside atomic nuclei, the planned advances in the scope and precision of these experiments...
neutrino energy reconstruction methods using electron scattering data
an accurate description of neutrino interactions with nuclei is critical for the success of current and planned neutrino-oscillation experiments. i will present quantum monte carlo calculations, based on green's function monte carlo methods, of neutrino-12c inclusive scattering induced by neutral- and charged-current i...
ab-initio calculations of neutrino-nucleus interactions
world data for the structure function for iron-56 f2fe, as measured by both charged lepton and neutrino scattering experiments, are compared. a difference in the behavior of the data between charged lepton and neutrino scattering is observed, notably in the shadowing/anti-shadowing transition region where the bjorken s...
comparison of the iron nuclear structure function f2 as measured by charged lepton and neutrino probes
the miniboone and lsnd experiments have shown compelling evidence for sterile neutrinos in short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. in these experiments, an excess of electron neutrino appearance was observed from a pure muon neutrino beam, and if these data are interpreted as sterile neutrino oscillations, the...
searching for sterile neutrinos with the coherent captain-mills detector at the los alamos neutron science center
the lsnd and miniboone short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments have shown evidence for sterile neutrinos at δm2 1 ev2. both experiments used pure muon neutrino beams to search for electron neutrino appearance, i.e., νμ ->νe , yet corresponding disappearance experiments have shown no anomalies. we will deploy...
a disappearance search for sterile neutrinos with the captain-mills detector at the los alamos neutron science center
we present a new preliminary measurement of the charge-current quasi-elastic scattering cross section for anti-neutrinos on scintillator (ch) over the energy range 1.5-10 gev. the data were taken with the minerva detector in the numi beamline at fermilab and cover the energy range of interest for the proposed dune long...
results for quasi-elastic anti-neutrino scattering on scintillator from the minerva experiment
the spallation neutron source (sns) at oak ridge national laboratory, tennessee, provides an intense isotropic flux of neutrinos in the few tens-of-mev range, with a sharply-pulsed timing structure which is beneficial for background rejection. this talk will describe how the sns source can be used for a measurement of ...
coherent at the spallation neutron source
precise low-energy measurements in nuclear β-decay provide constraints on possible physics beyond the standard model complementary to high-energy collider experiments. we report the most precise measurement of the positron asymmetry from a polarized nucleus to-date. at the triumf neutral atom trap, atoms of the positro...
precise measurement of the positron asymmetry in the decay of spin-polarized 37k
world data for the f2 structure function for iron, as measured by multiple charged lepton and neutrino deep inelastic scattering experiments, are compared. data obtained from charged lepton and neutrino scattering at larger values of x are in remarkably good agreement with a simple invocation of the 18/5 rule, while a ...
comparison of the f2 structure function in iron as measured by charged lepton and neutrino probes
when studying neutrino oscillations an understanding of charged current quasielastic (ccqe) neutrino-nucleus scattering is imperative. this interaction depends on a nuclear model as well as knowledge of form factors. in the past, ccqe data from the miniboone experiment was analyzed assuming the relativistic fermi gas (...
separating form factor and nuclear model effects in quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering
nuclear recoil (nr) calibrations are vital for understanding detector responses to dark matter candidates and neutrino-nucleus signals in direct detection experiments. low-mass (<5 gev) dark matter candidates and 8b neutrinos drive the need for high-statistics/low-systematic calibrations at even lower nr energies. w...
a 350 kev monoenergetic neutron source using a dd-neutron source and a deuterated scintillator neutron reflector
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, σ/(νμ + nucleons -->μ+ + x) σ (νμ + nucleons -->μ- + x) . theoretical estimates for charged current quasi-elastic neutrino-qu...
measurment of the charged current inclusive anti-neutrino to neutrino cross section ratio using the π0 detector at t2k
the coherent experiment is attempting a first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) at the spallation neutron source (sns) at oak ridge national lab. cevns is a standard model process that is important in understanding supernova neutrinos, the structure of the weak interaction, and as a ba...
background studies at the spallation neutron source for the coherent experiment
the miniboone and lsnd experiments have shown compelling evidence for sterile neutrinos in short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. in these experiments, an excess of electron neutrino appearance was observed from a pure muon neutrino beam, and if these data are interpreted as sterile neutrino oscillations, the...
searching for sterile neutrinos and acceleratorproduced dark matter with the coherentcaptain-mills (ccm) detector at the losalamos neutron science center
the deep underground neutrino experiment (dune) is a long baseline neutrino experiment using liquid argon detectors to study neutrino oscillations, proton decay, and other phenomena. the single-phase protodune detector is a prototype of the dune far detector and is located in a charged particle test beam at cern. it is...
muon momentum estimation in protodune using multiple coulomb scattering
there is overwhelming astrophysical evidence for the existence of dark matter. despite a significant experimental program to search for the non-gravitation interactions of dark matter with deep underground detectors, it remains unseen. these experiments search for low-energy nuclear recoils but lose sensitivity below a...
an accelerator-produced, sub-gev dark matter search with the miniboone neutrino detector
the coherent experiment has observed coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) using the pulsed neutrino production from the spallation neutron source (sns) at oak ridge national laboratory. the collaboration now seeks to test the n^2 dependence of the standard model cross section for cevns using a suite of ...
neutrino flux simulations for coherent at the ornl spallation neutron source
decades of research in electron-nucleus deep inelastic scattering (dis) have provided a clear picture of nuclear physics at high momentum transfer. while these effects have been clearly demonstrated by experiment, the theoretical explanation of their origin in some kinematic regions has been lacking. particularly, the ...
first search for the emc effect and nuclear shadowing in neutrino nucleus deep inelastic scattering at minerva
neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering (νael) is a well-defined process in the standard model of particle physics. it provides a unique laboratory to study the quantum mechanical coherency effects in electroweak interactions. we present an analytical formulation to quantify the coherency effects (α), relate this to nuclea...
studies of quantum mechanical coherency effects in neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering
the nucleon axial radius, ra2, is an important quantity governing the nucleon response to electroweak probes. its uncertainty dominates the error bar for neutrino-nucleon charged current quasielastic scattering, a key signal process at long baseline neutrino experiments. recent developments are reviewed, including the ...
the nucleon axial radius, its determination and implications
recently the coherent collaboration reported the first observation of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cenns), opening the door to the use of neutrinos for the study of nuclear properties. studying the cenns spectrum, indeed, it is possible to measure the electroweak nuclear form factor and therefore const...
extracting nuclear form factors from coherent neutrino scattering
accelerator-based neutrino experiments are taking the center stage of the neutrino oscillation program. these experiments use beam neutrinos with energies between 500 mev and 5 gev and detect them by their interactions with nuclei. understanding neutrino-nucleus interaction cross sections and their uncertainties is cru...
neutrino-nucleus scattering in neutrino oscillation experiments
modern gas time projection chambers (tpcs) with high readout segmentation are capable of reconstructing detailed 3d ionization distributions of nuclear recoils resulting from neutron-nucleus scattering. this provides event-by-event recoil direction and ionization energy, as well as high-quality particle identification;...
application of recoil-imaging time projection chambers to directional neutron background measurements at superkekb
e12-14-012 at jefferson lab was conducted to measure the 40ar spectral function, s(k,e), through coincidence electron scattering 40ar(e,e'p). s(k,e) yields the probability of removing a nucleon of momentum k = |k| from the nuclear ground state, leaving the residual nuclear system with excitation energy e. e12-14-012 co...
inclusive and exclusive electron scattering on 40ar and 48ti to aid precision neutrino oscillation experiments
current and future generation neutrino oscillation experiments aim towards a high-precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters. to do so requires an unprecedented understanding of neutrino-nucleus scattering and an excellent reconstruction of the incoming neutrino energy. in this work, we utilize variables ...
towards 1 μ 1 p single transverse variable cross sections in μboone
machine learning is a candidate for the next-generation reconstruction for neutrino experiments such as icecube. icecube is an ice-cherenkov neutrino detector embedded in a cubic kilometer of glacial ice in antarctica. the detector observes astrophysical and atmospheric neutrinos via the light emitted by charged partic...
improving icecube event reconstruction using a graph convolutional network and semantic segmentation
neutrino electron elastic scattering is a process with a precisely known cross-section that provides a standard candle for improving our knowledge about the neutrino flux in accelerator-based neutrino beams. this process also has a distinct experimental signature leveraging the kinematics of the scattering process that...
neutrino electron scattering for flux constraint on sbnd
in 2020, super-kamiokande started introducing gadolinium sulfate into the detector in order to detect neutrons more efficiently (sk-gd) . one of the main purpose of sk-gd is the first observation of diffuse supernova neutrino background (dsnb) using inverse beta decay (ibd) events. in the sk-gd, we can distinguish the ...
measurement of neutron-oxygen interaction cross section using neutron beam for diffuse supernova neutrino background search
neutrino-electron scattering is a purely leptonic fundamental interaction and therefore provides an important channel to test the standard model (sm), especially at the low energy-momentum transfer regime [1, 2]. in this study data on {\bar{v}}e-e and ve - e scattering from the texono and lsnd experiments, respectively...
constraints on nonstandard neutrino interaction from neutrino electron scattering
form factors defined by matrix elements of quark and gluon energy-momentum tensors are called gravitational form factors. they used to be considered as purely academic quantities without any experimental measurement because the gravitational interactions are extremely small in comparison with strong, electromagnetic, a...
3d tomography of hadrons with hadron and lepton beams
accurately modeling the interactions of neutrinos with 16o is essential for neutrino experiments that employ (heavy) water cherenkov detectors. recent advances in the chiral-effective-field-theory description of nuclear forces and electroweak currents and in nuclear many-body theory have positioned us to obtain reliabl...
neutrino scattering off 16o in coupled-cluster theory
we compare a new minerva measurement of the nucleon axial-vector form factor with lattice-qcd calculations and deuterium bubble-chamber data, provide uncertainty projections for future extractions, and present recent calculations of radiative corrections to charged-current (anti)neutrino-nucleon scattering.
nucleon axial-vector radius and form factor from lattice qcd, minerva antineutrino-proton data, and future neutrino experiments
the scintillating bubble chamber (sbc) collaboration is exploring the dark matter and neutrino potential of liquid-noble bubble chambers. these detectors can observe sub-kev nuclear recoils while being blind to electronic recoils. the sbc-fermilab liquid argon chamber is currently being assembled for commissioning. onc...
the sbc experiment and calibration plan
the strange quark contribution to proton's spin (δs) is a fundamental quantity that is poorly determined from current experiments. neutrino-proton elastic scattering (pes) is a promising channel to measure this quantity, and requires an intense source of low-energy neutrinos and a low-threshold detector with excellent ...
using supernova neutrinos to probe the strange quark contribution to the proton spin
coherent collaboration at the spallation neutrino source (sns) at ornl utilizing intensive low energy neutrino flux to measure various neutrino interactions. with the focus to study coherent elastic neutrino scattering (cevns). precise measurement of the cevns can test prediction of the standard model (sm) and look for...
neutrino heavy water detector at the sns
noble element detectors (two-phase emission detectors, liquid phase-only detectors, etc.) have many applications in modern research. for example, they are broadly used in dark matter registration, non-standard neutrino interactions searches and even standard model processes observation (for example, coherent elastic ne...
the noble element simulation technique (nest): recent updates and improvements
different reactions channels induced by the 18o + 40ca collisions at 275 mev incident energy are simultaneously measured and analysed consistently within the same reaction and structure frameworks within the numen project. the project aims to provide data-driven information for the determination of the nuclear matrix e...
the numen project: probing nuclear response to weak interaction by nuclear reactions
a relativistic model for quasielastic (qe) lepton-nucleus scattering is presented. the effects of final-state interactions (fsi) between the ejected nucleon and the residual nucleus are described in the relativistic green's function (rgf) model where fsi are consistently described with exclusive scattering using a comp...
quasielastic scattering with the relativistic green's function approach
the impact of the emission of new light gauge bosons in neutrino-nucleus scattering on the observed signal is studied. as an example, a model with a neutral vector boson z' with a mass of a few tens of mev, interacting with neutrinos via the v - a current, is considered. an equivalent z' boson spectrum for neutrinos is...
lepton pair production in neutrino-nucleus scattering
there have been a large number of important discoveries in the field of experimental high energy physics over the past fifty years. some of the important milestones are (1) discovery of the neutral current to establish the first step of the electroweak theory; (2) evidence of charm and beauty through the search of quar...
fifty years of experimental high energy physics
the coherent experiment is designed for a first measurement and n2 dependence study of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) at the oak ridge spallation neutron source (sns). cevns is a standard model process that is important in understanding supernova neutrinos, the structure of the weak interaction an...
background studies for the coherent experiment at the spallation neutron source
the coherent neutrino-nucleus interaction experiment (connie) uses fully depleted high-resistivity ccds as particle detectors with the goal of measuring the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cenns) of reactor antineutrinos with silicon nuclei. the connie detector operates at a distance of 30m from the core ...
the coherent neutrino-nucleus interaction experiment
the minerva experiment is designed to measure neutrino cross sections for different nuclei using substantially similar fiducial and tracking environments. this allows for reduced systematics in the ratio to better see the evolution of the cross section with the size of the nucleus. the first such result is an inclusive...
minerva measurement of neutrino charged-current cross section ratios of nuclei c, fe, and pb to ch at energies of a few gev
a quantum chromodynamics (qcd)‑based analysis of the neutrino structure functions xf2, xf3, and δxf3 for charged current and neutral neutrino deep inelastic scattering (dis) is performed focusing on high‑energy and high‑precision neutrino experiments. the investigation is done taking into account the color dipole forma...
neutrino structure functions predictions for high‑energy and high‑precision neutrino experiments
microboone is a liquid argon time projection chamber detector that has been taking data since 2015. one of its primary goals is to investigate the unexplained excess of electromagnetic events in the lowest energy ranges observed in the same neutrino beam line in the miniboone experiment. while one leading interpretatio...
microboone's search for a photon-like low energy excess
minerva is a neutrino scattering experiment stationed in the high intensity numi beam line at fermilab, designed to measure neutrino cross sections, final states and nuclear effects on a variety of targets in the few-gev region to reduce systematic uncertainties in oscillation experiments and provide new understanding ...
charged current inclusive measurements in minerνa
neutrino-nucleus coherent pion production is a rare neutrino scattering process where the squared four-momentum transferred to the nucleus is small, a lepton and pion are produced in the forward direction, and the nucleus remains in its initial state. this process is an important background in neutrino oscillation expe...
measurement of charged current coherent pion production by neutrinos on carbon at minernua
the microboone experiment is a 170 ton liquid argon time projection chamber (lartpc) experiment designed for short-baseline neutrino physics, located at surface level in the booster neutrino beam (bnb) at fermilab. a muon neutrino-argon charged current (cc) cross section measurement in the energy range of ∼200 mev - 2 ...
model uncertainties at microboone
the coherent experiment at the oak ridge national laboratory (ornl) spallation neutron source (sns) is designed to measure coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cevns), which is predicted to occur, but has yet to be observed. a variety of detectors, with different scattering nuclei, will be used to demonstrate ...
status of the cenns-10 liquid argon detector for the coherent experiment
the two-phase emission detector red-100 with 130 kg of liquid xenon as a working medium has been exhibited at a distance of 19 m from the core of the vver-1000/320 nuclear power reactor at the fourth power unit of the kalinin nuclear plant power in 2021–2022. due to the high sensitivity of the detector for weak ionizat...
using the two-phase emission detector red-100 at npp to study coherent elastic neutrinos scattering off nuclei
we investigate non-standard interactions of neutrinos with atomic nuclei through excitations of leptoquarks. a leptoquark term in the lagrangian admits the possibility that neutrinos interact with gluons. the current lower limits on the leptoquark masses are of the order of 1 tev depending on the leptoquark quantum num...
impact of nuclear gluon distributions on leptoquark production by neutrinos
coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (ceυns) is a novel technique to look for new physics beyond the standard model. we study the prospects of probing a transition magnetic moment in cevns experiments. showing the nucleus experiment as an example, we demonstrate that properties of a potential sterile neutrino c...
transition neutrino magnetic moments in cevns
precise knowledge of the nucleon's axial-current form factors is crucial for modeling gev-scale neutrino-nucleus interactions. however, these form factors remain insufficiently constrained to meet the precision requirements of upcoming long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiments. in this talk, i will discuss our rec...
unified model of nucleon elastic form factors and implications for neutrino-oscillation experiments
ship is a new general purpose fixed target facility, whose technical proposal has been recently reviewed by the cern sps committee, who recommended that the experiment proceeds further to a comprehensive design phase. in its initial phase, the 400 gev proton beam extracted from the sps will be dumped on a heavy target ...
ship: a new facility with a dedicated detector for studying tau-neutrino properties and nucleon structure functions
the coherent neutrino scattering with nuclei provides a novel way to measure the distribution of neutrons in nuclei. this interaction has been theoretically predicted more than 40 years ago, but the difficulty of measuring the very small nuclear recoil made possible its experimental observation only in 2017 by the cohe...
average csi neutron density distribution from coherent data
neutrino factories have been identified as the best facility for making precision measurements of neutrino oscillation physics. to fully realize this technology, a demonstration of the reduction of the phase space of a muon beam must be presented. the muon ionization cooling experiment (mice) is tasked with providing s...
measurements of muon multiple scattering in mice
in this work we consider sub-leading $o(z^2\alpha^3)$ corrections to coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (cevns). these corrections are not negligible by power counting since nuclei with large coherent cross sections have sizeable nuclear charges e.g.\ $z\alpha \sim 0.4$. we find that the corrections are much ...
coulomb corrections for coherent neutrino nucleus scattering
the karlsruhe tritium neutrino experiment (katrin) aims to make a precision measurement of the tritium beta decay spectrum with a projected sensitivity to neutrino mass of 200 mev. meeting this goal requires low backgrounds in the beta decay endpoint region. in katrin, spatially confined charged particles represent a p...
penning trap searches in the katrin main spectrometer
minerνa is a neutrino scattering experiment that uses fermilab's numi beamline. its goal is to measure cross-sections for neutrino scattering from different nuclei. precise knowledge of these cross-sections is vital for current and future neutrino oscillation experiments. in order to measure these values to a high degr...
minerνa neutrino detector calibration
nuclear short-range correlations (srcs), i.e. the probability of finding few nucleons close to each other inside the nucleus, are an integral part of the description of nuclear systems, important for neutrino studies, neutron-star structure and for the bound nucleon structure function. high-energy electron scattering i...
the generalized contact formalism and short-range correlations in nuclei
reliable modeling of quasielastic (qe) lepton scattering on nuclei is of great interest to neutrino oscillations experiments, especially at low values of the 3-momentum transfer q. we report on a phenomenological analysis of the world's qe electron scattering data on carbon within the framework of the superscaling mode...
experimental investigation of low q2 quasielastic electron scattering on carbon
distinct approaches for the treatment of single-photon production in neutrino neutral-current interactions with hadrons at low and intermediate energies have been proposed over the last decades, mainly motivated by the fact that this process is one of the main backgrounds in νμ→νe oscillation experiments. such approach...
single-photon production in neutrino-hadron interactions at high energies
nova is a 14 kton long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment currently being installed in the numi off-axis neutrino beam produced at fermilab. a 222 ton prototype noνa detector was built and operated in the neutrino beam for over a year to understand the response of the detector and its construction. muon neutrino ...
study of quasi-elastic scattering in the noνa near detector prototype
the xenonnt experiment is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. beyond its primary science goal to detect wimp dark matter, xenonnt will be highly sensitive to a variety of rare neutrino processes. with a few hundred kilograms of xenon-136 in the fiducial volume, we will search for hints of neutrinoless double be...
neutrino interactions in xenonnt
a successful cevns measurement requires a large neutrino flux, low backgrounds, and a detector sensitive to low energy nuclear recoils. nuclear reactors offer a free flux of ~mev neutrinos and an off-reactor data set allows for subtraction of non-reactor backgrounds. the scintillating bubble chamber (sbc) collaboration...
physics reach of a reactor cevns liquid argon sbc
recently a new formalism to describe charged-current (cc) neutrino-nucleus reactions has been developed (krmpotić et al., phys rev c 71:044319, 2005). here, we have extended this model to describe neutrino-nucleus reactions via neutral-current (nc). as the weak interaction observables showed to be very sensitive to the...
neutral-current neutrino-nucleus scattering within qrpa models
we discuss the two most recent global analyses of nuclear parton distribution functions within the ncteq approach. lhc data on $w/z$-boson, single-inclusive hadron and heavy quark/quarkonium production are shown to not only significantly reduce the gluon uncertainty down to $x\geq10^{-5}$, but to also influence the str...
global analyses of nuclear pdfs with heavy-quark and neutrino data
the nucleus experiment aims to perform a high-precision measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns) at the edf chooz b nuclear power plant in france. cevns is a unique process to study neutrino properties and to search for physics beyond the standard model. the study of cevns is also important f...
exploring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor neutrinos with the nucleus experiment
we report on our study of photon emission induced by eν ∼ 1 gev (anti)neutrino neutral current interactions with nucleons and nuclei. this process is an important background for νe appearance oscillation experiments. at the relevant energies, the reaction is dominated by the excitation of the δ(1232) resonance but ther...
photon emission in neutral current interactions with nucleons and nuclei
we consider an extension of zee-babu model to explain the smallness of neutrino masses. (1) we extend the lepton number symmetry of the original model to local $b-l$ symmetry. (2) we introduce three dirac dark matter candidates with flavor-dependent $b-l$ charges. after the spontaneous breaking of $b-l$, a discrete sym...
radiative neutrino mass and 3.5 kev x-ray line
superscaling model (susa) predictions to neutrino-induced charged-current π+ production in the δ-resonance region are explored under miniboone experimental conditions. the susa charged-current π+ results are in good agreement with data on neutrino flux-averaged double-differential cross sections. the susa model for qua...
charged-current inclusive neutrino cross sections in the superscaling model
the spallation neutron source (sns) at oak ridge national laboratory, tennessee, provides an intense isotropic flux of neutrinos in the few tens-of-mev range, with a sharply-pulsed timing structure which is beneficial for background rejection. this talk will describe aspects of coherent, the experimental program underw...
coherent at the spallation neutron source
the experimental program to search for the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the spallation neutron source is presented.
coherent neutrino scattering
after highlighting the importance of neutrino cross section modeling for neutrino oscillation measurements, the most recent neutrino cross section measurements are presented. new preliminary results are available from t2k for the measurement of charged current interactions on carbon without pions in the final state, si...
experimental status of neutrino scattering
the electron-neutrino charged-current quasielastic (ccqe) cross section on nuclei is an important input parameter to appearance-type neutrino oscillation experiments. current experiments typically work from the muon neutrino cross section and apply corrections from theoretical arguments to obtain a prediction for the e...
electron neutrino charged-current quasielastic scattering in the minerva experiment
selected theoretical developments in neutrino-nucleus scattering in 2015-2016 are reviewed.
recent developments in neutrino-nucleus scattering (theory)
germanium detectors with sub-kev sensitivities can probe low-mass wimp dark matter. this experimental approach is pursued at kuo-sheng neutrino laboratory (ksnl) in taiwan and at china jinping underground laboratory (cjpl) in china via texono and cdex programs, respectively. the highlights of r&d efforts on point c...
point contact germanium detectors at 500 evee threshold for light dark matter searches
in this work, we have discussed the recent developments that have taken place to understand the differences in the weak $f_{2a}^{weak} (x,q^2)$ and electromagnetic $f_{2a}^{em} (x,q^2)$ nuclear structure functions. also we present the results of our work on nuclear medium effects on $f_{2a}^{weak} (x,q^2)$ and $f_{2a}^...
medium effects in the deep-inelastic charged lepton/neutrino-a scattering
in order to make precision measurements of gev-scale neutrino oscillations a detailed understanding of both gev-scale neutrino-nucleon scattering cross sections and nuclear effects are essential. to achieve this, many of the latest analyses at the t2k off-axis near detector (nd280) complement existing results by utilis...
results and prospects of the latest $\\nu_\\mu$cc0$\\pi$ analyses from the t2k near detectors
we reviewed present status regarding experimental data and theoretical approaches for neutrino-induced reactions and neutrino scattering. with a short introduction of relevant data, our recent calculations by distorted-wave born approximation for quasielastic region are presented for miniboone data. for much higher ene...
neutrino-induced reactions and neutrino scattering with nuclear targets
this work presents the complete modeling scheme of production and detection of two types of light dark matter (ldm)—dirac fermionic and scalar particles—in a fixed target experiment using ship experiment as an example. the drell-yan process was chosen as a channel of ldm production; the deep inelastic scattering on lea...
possibilities of detecting light dark matter produced via drell-yan channel in a fixed target experiment
it is well-known that neutrino-electron scattering at low recoil energies provides sensitivity gain in constraining neutrinos’ magnetic moments and their possible milli-charges. however, in detectors with sub-kev thresholds, the binding effects of electrons become significant. in this talk, we present our recent works ...
atomic ionization by neutrinos at low energies
recent experiments in high enegry cosmic ray physics, pamela and ams-02, excite a new interest to the mechanisms of generation of galactic antiparticles. in spite of the fact that global picture coincides with the predictions of the standard model, there are some black spots stimulating scientists to involve into resea...
evaluation of the antiproton flux from the antineutrino electron scattering
a direct wimp (weakly interacting massive particle) detector with a neutron veto system is designed to better reject neutrons. an experimental configuration is studied in the present paper: 984 ge modules are placed inside a reactor neutrino detector. in order to discriminate between nuclear and electron recoil, both i...
evaluation of neutron background in cryogenic germanium target for wimp direct detection when using reactor neutrino detector as neutron veto
the beta-decay paul trap (bpt) at argonne national lab measures the beta-neutrino angular correlation coefficient aβνin the decay of li-8 and b-8 to search for a tensor contribution to the weak interaction, a beyond-standard model possibility. the bpt has an ultimate measurement goal of 0.1% uncertainty in aβν. a new b...
beta-decay paul trap mk. iv commissioning
ship is an experiment to look for very weakly interacting particles at a new to be constructed beam-dump facility at the cern sps. the ship technical proposal has been submitted to the cern sps committee in april 2015. the 400 gev/c proton beam extracted from the sps will be dumped on a heavy target with the aim of int...
ship: a new multipurpose beam-dump experiment at the sps
in the decades-old quest to uncover the nature of the enigmatic dark matter, cryogenic detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivities. searching for tiny signals from dark matter particles scattering in materials cooled down to low temperatures, these experiments look out into space from deep underground. their amb...
cryogenic dark matter searches
this work studies the expected signal of dark matter particles in terrestrial detectors. in particular, we focus on the direct detection technique, based on the study of the scattering of dark matter particles by a nucleus in a detector. in the calculation, we have considered the dark matter model, the geographical loc...
dark matter signal for the future andes laboratory
we perform a phenomenological analysis, where we combine a calculation of the strange quark electromagnetic form factor from lattice qcd with (anti)neutrino-nucleon scattering differential cross section data from miniboone experiments to determine the weak axial-vector form factor gaz(q2) . we show that the precise val...
weak neutral-current axial-vector form factor and neutrino-nucleon scattering
this thesis represents the first double differential measurement of quasi-elastic anti-neutrino scattering in the few gev range--a region of substantial theoretical and experimental interest as it is the kinematic region where studies of charge-parity (cp) violation in the neutrino sector most require precise understan...
measurement of the antineutrino double-differential charged-current quasi-elastic scattering cross section at minerva
although predictions for the magnetic moment of neutrino in the standard theory are far beyond the sensitivity of contemporary experiments, anomalously large neutrino magnetic moments would be of interest from the point of view of astrophysical consequences. electromagnetic neutrino interaction caused by the non-zero m...
limit on the effective magnetic moment of solar neutrinos from borexino phase-ii data
the numen project aims to measure specific reaction cross sections to provide experimentally driven information about nuclear matrix elements of interest in the context of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ). in particular, it was proposed to use heavy - ion induced double charge exchange reactions as tools towards t...
a multi-channel study of the 20ne + 130te system within the numen project
isodar@kamland is a proposed short baseline νe disappearance experiment designed to search for ev-scale sterile neutrinos. in a 5-year run period, isodar will produce more than 1023νe through decay-at-rest of 8 li , produced in a high-power target bombarded by 60 mev protons. paired with a kiloton-scale detector such a...
isodar@kamland: sterile neutrinos and beyond
improving modeling of neutrino-nucleus interactions in the gev energy range has critical importance to the success of next generation neutrino oscillation experiments. one key ingredient in the modeling is nucleon axial current form factors, which however have not been satisfactorily understood. in most studies, both f...
nucleon axial current form factors in a light-front quark model with a pion cloud
microboone is a short baseline neutrino experiment that utilizes 89 ton active volume liquid argon time projection chamber (tpc) situated on the booster neutrino beamline at fermilab. it is the first of three liquid argon tpc detectors planned for the fermilab short baseline neutrino program and will directly probe the...
charged particle multiplicity analysis in microboone
the miniboone collaboration has recently updated their neutrino oscillation results to incorporate the complete dataset for the experiment, corresponding to 18.75 (11.27) × 1020 protons-on-target in neutrino (antineutrino) mode. an excess of electron-like events is observed at a significance of 4.8 σ. the larger sample...
updated miniboone results with the complete dataset
short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations (nn src) contain important information about nuclear structure and dynamics within the nuclei. it has been extensively studied through two-nucleon knockout reactions, in both pion and electron scattering experiments. a very recent approach is to probe nn src using neutrino scatt...
nucleus probing for short-range correlations using neutrino-nucleon interactions