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nova is a long baseline neutrino experiment based at fermilab that studies neutrino oscillation parameters via electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance. the oscillation measurements compare the far detector data to an oscillated prediction which accounts for the near detector (nd) data and our under...
cross section tuning in nova
using wide phase-space electron scattering data, we study a novel technique for neutrino energy reconstruction for future neutrino oscillation experiments. accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments require detailed understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions, which are complicated by the underlying nuclear ...
electrons for neutrinos: using electron scattering to develop new energy reconstruction for future deuterium-based neutrino detectors
to study neutrino oscillations, the knowledge of the initial neutrino energy is required. this energy cannot be determined directly because neutrino beams have a broad energy distribution. instead, the initial energy is estimated from the final state particles using two main approaches. it can be determined either from...
validation of neutrino energy estimation using electron scattering data
i will review past and present efforts to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (cevns), its importance in the context of the study of fundamental neutrino properties, and possible future technological applications. ongoing and planned coherent activities at ornl will also be discussed, with an emphasis o...
coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: the shape of things to come
microboone is a neutrino experiment based at fermilab that utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber located on-axis in the booster neutrino beam (bnb). one of the experiment's main goals is a search for the excess of electron-neutrino-like events seen by the miniboone experiment, located near microboone in the b...
constraining electron neutrino systematic uncertainties with muon neutrino events in microboone
a light yield of 20 . 4 +/- 0 . 8 photoelectrons/kev was achieved with an undoped csi crystal coupled directly to a photomultiplier tube at 77 kelvin. this is by far the largest in the world achieved with csi crystals. an energy threshold that is several times lower than the current dark matter experiments utilizing cs...
light yield of an undoped csi crystal coupled directly to a photomultiplier tube at 77 kelvin
the study of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering provides an opportunity for novel tests of the standard model, and therefore for explorations of physics beyond the standard model including the search for non-standard neutrino interactions and portals to hidden particle sectors. additionally, coherent neutrino-nucleus...
theory overview of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering and implications for physics beyond the standard model
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. neutrino experiments, such as miniboone, often use the relativistic fermi gas (rfg) nuclear model. rece...
implementing the correlated fermi gas nuclear model for quasielastic neutrino-nucleus scattering
weakly interacting dark matter direct detection experiments are rapidly approaching sensitivity levels where neutrino scattering background events will overwhelm any potential signal in the 10-100 gev dark matter mass range. since no experiment has provided conclusive evidence of dark matter in this mass range-and with...
progress towards a sub-gev dark matter search using superfluid helium-4
we present a first search for dark-trident scattering in a neutrino beam using a data set corresponding to $7.2 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target taken with the microboone detector at fermilab. proton interactions in the neutrino target at the main injector produce $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ mesons, which could decay into dark...
first search for dark-trident processes using the microboone detector
snd@lhc is a compact and stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the lhc in a hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < {\eta} < 8.4, complementary to all the other experiments at the lhc. the experiment is located 480 m downstream of atlas ip1 in the unused ti18 tunnel...
the scattering and neutrino detector at the lhc
simulations of neutrino interactions are playing an increasingly important role in the pursuit of high-priority measurements for the field of particle physics. a significant technical barrier for efficient development of these simulations is the lack of a standard data format for representing individual neutrino scatte...
nuhepmc: a standardized event record format for neutrino event generators
the origin of the excess of low-energy events observed by the miniboone experiment remains a mystery, despite exhaustive investigations of backgrounds and a series of null measurements from complementary experiments. one intriguing explanation is the production of beyond-the-standard-model particles that could mimic th...
shedding light on the miniboone excess with searches at the lhc
in this paper, i investigate a neutral current (nc) antineutrinos scattering with neutron star (ns) matter constituents at zero temperature. the modeling of the standard matters in ns is constructed in the framework of both extended relativistic mean-field (e-rmf) and nonrelativistic korea-ibs-daegu-skku energy density...
antineutrino opacity in neutron stars in the models constrained by recent terrestrial experiments and astrophysical observations
large-scale neutrino telescopes have the primary objective to detect and characterize neutrino sources in the universe. these experiments rely on the detection of charged leptons produced in the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei. angular resolutions are estimated to be better than 1 degree, which is achieved by the ...
the relevance of muon deflections for neutrino telescopes
accelerator-based experiments reliant on charged pion and kaon decays to produce muon-neutrino beams also deliver an associated powerful flux of muons. therefore, these experiments can additionally be sensitive to light new particles that preferentially couple to muons and decay to visible final states on macroscopic l...
new $\\mu$ forces from $\\nu_\\mu$ sources
the miner νa detector situated in fermilab, is designed to make precision cross section measurements for neutrino scattering processes on various nuclei. i will present the two most recent results from the miner νa charged current quasi-elastic (ccqe) studies. the event sample for both analyses are the ccqe-like final ...
recent ccqe results from minerva
dark matter (dm) search is one of the most significant tasks of modern physics. direct dm searches are nowadays one of the most fervid research topics with many experimental efforts devoted to the search for nucleus recoils induced by the scattering of weakly interactive massive particles (wimp). the new experiment new...
new experiment for wimp direct search (newsdm)
sno+ is a neutrinoless double beta decay and low energy neutrino experiment located in sudbury, canada. to improve our understanding of the detector energy resolution and systematics, calibration systems have been developed to continuously monitor the optical properties of the detector, such as absorption, reemission a...
scattering length monitoring at the sno+ detector
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
experiments searching for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter are now detecting background events from solar neutrino-electron scattering. however, the dominant background in state-of-the-art experiments such as lz and xenonnt is beta decays from radon contamination. in spite of careful detector material sc...
towards a neutrino-limited dark matter search with crystalline xenon
we perform a global fit of dark matter interactions with nucleons using a non-relativistic effective operator description, considering both direct detection and neutrino data. we examine the impact of combining the direct detection experiments cdmslite, cresst-ii, cresst-iii, darkside-50, lux, lz, pandax-ii, pandax-4t,...
a global fit of non-relativistic effective dark matter operators including solar neutrinos
the isovector axial form factor of the nucleon plays a key role in interpreting data from long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. we present a lattice qcd calculation of this form factor, introducing a new method to directly extract its z-expansion from lattice correlators. our final parameterization of the for...
isovector axial form factor of the nucleon from lattice qcd
the luce (lutetium scintillation experiment) project will search for the 176lu electron capture based on a milli-kelvin calorimetric approach. this decay is of special interest in the field of nuclear structure, with implications for the s-process and for a better comprehension of the nuclear matrix elements of neutrin...
luce: a milli-kelvin calorimeter experiment to study the electron capture of 176lu
this work studies collinearly factorizable nuclear parton distribution functions (npdfs) in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (qcd) at next-to-leading order in the light of hadron-nucleus collision data which have not been included in npdf analyses previously. the aim is at setting new constraints on the nuclear modi...
new constraints for nuclear parton distribution functions from hadron-nucleus collision processes
i overview our recent activity with the argonne-osaka dynamical coupled-channels (dcc) approach that provides a unified description of various electroweak meson productions on single nucleon and nucleus. first i discuss the dcc model of a single nucleon. the dcc model has been developed through a comprehensive analysis...
dynamical coupled-channels approach to electroweak meson productions on nucleon and deuteron
precision measurements of antineutrino elastic scattering on hydrogen from future neutrino experiments offer a unique opportunity to access the low-energy structure of protons and neutrons. we discuss the determination of the nucleon axial-vector form factor and radius from antineutrino interactions on hydrogen which c...
nucleon axial-vector radius and form factor from future neutrino experiments
we propose that the sound wave coming to the inner side of miniboone detector could be one of the sources for our having the neutrino anomaly in the experiment. we start with presenting a rough estimate for the size of the energy associated with the sound wave coming into the detector, the size of the loss of energy as...
when sound wave meets the neutrino anomaly
borexino could efficiently distinguish between alpha and beta radiation in its liquid scintillator by the characteristic time profile of their scintillation pulse. this alpha/beta discrimination, first demonstrated at the tonne scale in the counting test facility prototype, was used throughout the lifetime of the exper...
novel techniques for alpha/beta pulse shape discrimination in borexino
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 $\xi_w$. non-perturbative effects are well described using the $\xi_w$ scaling variable in combination ...
inelastic axial and vector structure functions for lepton-nucleon scattering update
precise measurements of the mass of the w boson are important to test the overall consistency of the standard model of particle physics. the current best measurements of the w boson mass come from single production measurements at hadron colliders in its decay mode to a lepton (electron or muon) and a neutrino and pair...
prospects for a measurement of the w boson mass in the all-jets final state at hadron colliders
current and planned neutrino oscillation experiments operate in the 0.1-10 gev energy regime. at these energies, the neutrino cross section is not well understood: a variety of interaction processes are possible and nuclear effects play a significant role. here, the conceptual problems that affect measuring and underst...
measurements of neutrino-nucleus scattering
we summarize some of the results presented in arxiv:1801.07975 [nucl-th]\cite{fsipaper}(to be published in epjc in 2018) on modeling electron and neutrino qe scattering on a variety of nuclei within the impulse approximation. we find that with three parameters we can describe the final state lepton energy for all of av...
optical potential and removal energies in lepton nucleus scattering
coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (ce$\nu$ns) offers a valuable approach in searching for physics beyond the standard model. the ricochet experiment aims to perform a precision measurement of the ce$\nu$ns spectrum at the institut laue-langevin nuclear reactor with cryogenic solid-state detectors. the experi...
modeling and characterization of tes-based detectors for the ricochet experiment
the remarkable observations in the pion induced and charge exchange reactions on a nucleus are the significant shift and broadening of the $\delta (1232)$-peak relative to free pion nucleon scattering. for the forward going massless leptons, the weak process $(\nu_l,l)$ on a nucleon, according to adler's partially cons...
modification of {mit delta }(1232) in the neutrino nucleus reaction
sno+ is a neutrinoless double beta decay and low energy neutrino experiment located in sudbury, canada. to improve our understanding of the detector energy resolution and systematics, calibration systems have been developed to continuously monitor the optical properties of the detector, such as: absorption, re-emission...
commissioning of ellie for sno+
we present the results for antineutrino induced quasielastic hyperon production from nucleon and nuclear targets \cite{alam:2014bya,singh:2006xp}. the inputs are the nucleon-hyperon(n--y) transition form factors determined from the analysis of neutrino-nucleon scattering and semileptonic decays of neutron and hyperons ...
weak quasielastic production of hyperons
in this paper, we calculate the size of a massive neutrino in the following approach. we perform our calculation using its mass, spin, and magnetic moment through the neutrino-electron interaction, $via$ the classical magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. thus, our estimate is obtained by mimicking the low-energy electro...
a classical lower bound on the size of a massive neutrino
this work focuses on the study of electron and neutrino scattering in the frame work of physics beyond the standard model (sm) called new physics (np). both model independent (mi) and model depen-dent (md) ways are used to constrain np. r-parity violating supersymmetry ( /rp susy) model is used to perform md analysis, ...
electron-neutrino scattering a strong aspirant for precision measurements
the simulation of the neutrino interaction is a crucial step in the simulation chain of a neutrino experiment. the different processes taking part in the neutrino scattering on a nucleus require several approximations in order to make the simulation possible and to realize reasonable computation times. this can be real...
gibuu based neutrino interaction simulations in km3net
among the most important tasks of neutrino oscillation experiments is correctly estimating the parent neutrino energy from the by-products of their interactions. large uncertainties in our current understanding of such processes can significantly hamper this effort. we explore several recent measurements made using the...
implications of recent miner$\\nu$a results for neutrino energy reconstruction
we present results from the minerνa experiment for neutrino-nucleus scattering in the few-gev energy region. these measurements cover a range of processes that must be modeled correctly in neutrino oscillation experiments, and in which recent results from other experiments have suggested deficiencies in the models curr...
measuring neutrino-nucleus interactions with minerνa
we have studied quasielastic charged current hyperon production induced by v¯μ on free nucleon and the nucleons bound inside the nucleus and the results are presented for several nuclear targets like 40ar, 56fe and 208pb. the hyperon-nucleon transition form factors are determined from neutrino-nucleon scattering and se...
weak quasielastic production of hyperons and threshold production of two pions
a small component of dark matter (dm) that is strongly interacting with the standard model sector is consistent with various experimental observations. despite the small abundance, strongly-interacting dm can lead to pronounced signals in dm direct detection experiments. we study belle ii sensitivity on strongly-intera...
search for strongly interacting dark matter at belle ii
we discuss the electron and muon neutrino and antineutrino charged current quasielastic double differential cross sections on carbon by projecting them in the transferred momentum-energy plane. this visually allows to easily understand the surprising dominance of the muon neutrino and antineutrino cross sections over t...
phase space of electron- and muon-neutrino and antineutrino scattering off nuclei
a brief review of the results for the total cross section \sigma^{\nu n} of ultrahigh-energy neutrino deep inelastic scattering on isoscalar nuclear targets is presented. these results are based on simple approximations for \sigma^{\nu n} and are compared with the experimental data of the icecube collaboration. the tot...
on ultrahigh-energy neutrino-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and the froissart bound
high-precision measurements in neutrino oscillation experiments require a very accurate description of the lepton-nucleus scattering process. several cross-section calculations are available, but important discrepancies are still present between different model predictions. for the quasi-elastic channel, dominated by o...
nuclear models for inclusive lepton-nucleus scattering in the quasi-elastic region and beyond
understanding the transitions of nucleons into various resonance structures through electromagnetic interactions plays a pivotal role in advancing our comprehension of the strong interactions within the domain of quark confinement. furthermore, gaining precise insights into the elastic and resonance structures of nucle...
elastic and resonance structures of the nucleon from hadronic tensor in lattice qcd: implications for neutrino-nucleon scattering and hadron physics
dark matter direct detection experiments impose the strong bounds on thermal dark matter scenarios. the bound can naturally be evaded if the cross section is momentum transfer dependent or velocity dependent. one can test such thermal dark matter scenarios if dark matter particles are boosted by some mechanism. in this...
simultaneous detection of boosted dark matter and neutrinos from the semi-annihilation at dune
the search for sub-gev dark matter via scattering on electrons has ramped up in the last few years. like in the case of dark matter scattering on nuclei, electron-recoil-based searches also face an ultimate background in the form of neutrinos. the so-called ``neutrino fog'' refers to the range of open dark-matter param...
the neutrino fog for dark matter-electron scattering experiments
the short-baseline neutrino program in fermilab aims to resolve the nature of the low-energy excess events observed in lsnd and miniboone, and analyze with unprecedented precision neutrino interactions with argon. these studies require reliable estimate of neutrino cross sections, in particular for charged current quas...
jlab spectral functions of argon in nuwro and their implications for microboone
we present the first continuous operation in a surface lab of bullkid, a detector for searches of light dark matter and precision measurements of the coherent and elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. the detector consists of an array of 60 cubic silicon particle absorbers of 0.34 g each, sensed by cryogenic kinetic ind...
low-energy spectrum of the bullkid detector array operated on surface
the nature of dark matter remains one of the most important unresolved questions of fundamental physics. many models, including the weakly interacting massive particles (wimps), assume dark matter to be a particle and predict a weak coupling with standard model matter. if dark matter particles can scatter off nuclei in...
search for dark matter annihilations in the center of the earth with icecube
motivated by the stunning projections for future cmb surveys, we evaluate the amount of dark radiation produced in the early universe by two-body decays or binary scatterings with thermal bath particles via a rigorous analysis in momentum space. we track the evolution of the dark radiation phase space distribution, and...
dark radiation from the primordial thermal bath in momentum space
the recent observation of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (ce{\nu}ns) with neutrinos from pion decay at rest ({\pi}-dar) sources by the coherent collaboration has raised interest in this process in the search for new physics. unfortunately, current uncertainties in the determination of nuclear parameters r...
probing nuclear properties and neutrino physics with current and future ce{\\nu}ns experiments
neutrino-atom scattering provides a sensitive tool for probing nonstandard interactions of massive neutrinos in laboratory measurements. the ionization channel of this collision process plays an important role in experiments searching for neutrino magnetic moments. we discuss some theoretical aspects of atomic ionizati...
neutrino-atom collisions
we investigate the sensitivity of a large underground liquid argon time projection chamber (lartpc)-based neutrino detector to dark matter in the galactic center annihilating into neutrinos. such a detector could have the ability to resolve the direction of the electron in a neutrino scattering event and thus to infer ...
directional neutrino searches for galactic center dark matter at large underground lartpcs
there is a global trend to increase the light yield of csi scintillators used in neutrino and dark matter detection by operating undoped crystals at cryogenic temperatures. however, high light yield alone is not sufficient to guarantee a low-energy threshold. the response of undoped crystals to nuclear recoils at cryog...
performance of a liquid nitrogen cryostat setup for the study of nuclear recoils in undoped csi crystals
we investigate the effect of one loop quantum corrections on the elastic scattering of dark matter off the nucleon in a fermionic dark matter model. the model introduces two new singlet fermions and a singlet scalar. the fermions communicate with the sm particles through a higgs portal. it is found that some viable reg...
loop enhancement of direct detection cross section in a fermionic dark matter model
we build a relativistic model to perform calculations of exclusive, semiexclusive, and inclusive unpolarized cross sections and various polarization observables in electron and neutrino scattering experiments with deuteron targets. the strong interaction dynamics is defined by an explicit dynamical unitary representati...
electron and neutrino scattering off the deuteron in a relativistic framework
detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events plays a central role in searches for particle dark matter interactions with atomic matter and studies of coherent neutrino scatters. precise nuclear recoil calibration data allow the responses of these dark matter and neutrino detectors to be characterized and enable in sit...
detection and calibration of low-energy nuclear recoils for dark matter and neutrino scattering experiments
a revolution in elementary particle physics occurred during the period from the ichep1968 to the ichep1982 with the advent of the parton model from discoveries in deeply inelastic electron-proton scattering at slac, neutrino experiments, hard-scattering observed in p+p collisions at the cern isr, the development of qcd...
how hadron collider experiments contributed to the development of qcd: from hard-scattering to the perfect liquid
a brief overview of the electromagnetic properties of neutrinos is presented with a discussion of the most important fundamental aspects of the problem. then using data from the ground-based reactor and solar neutrino-electron scattering experiments the best upper bounds on neutrino effective magnetic moments are discu...
electromagnetic neutrinos: the theory and bounds from scattering experiments
neutrino-nucleus quasielastic scattering is studied in the plane wave impulse approximation for three nuclear models: the relativistic fermi gas (rfg), the independent-particle shell model (ipsm) and the natural orbitals (no) model with lorentzian dependence of the excitation energy. a complete study of the kinematics ...
semi-inclusive charged-current neutrino-nucleus cross sections in the relativistic plane wave impulse approximation
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. a 400 gev proton beam extracted from the sps will be dumped ...
ship: a new facility to search for long lived neutral particles and investigate the $\\nu_\\tau$ properties
recent neutrino oscillation results have shown that the existing long baseline experiments have some sensitivity to the effects of cp violation in the neutrino sector. this sensitivity is currently statistically limited, but the next generation of experiments, dune and hyper-k, will provide an order of magnitude more e...
an intermediate water cherenkov detector at j-parc
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 report presents calculations of reactor antineutrino interactions, from quasi-elastic neutri...
reactor antineutrino signals at morton and boulby
the theoretical framework of the neutrino electron excitation at low energies including the screening effect in semiconductor detectors is developed for the first time, both in the standard model of particle physics and in the presence of the neutrino magnetic moment. we apply the framework of the non-relativistic effe...
enhancement of the screening effect in semiconductor detectors in the presence of the neutrino magnetic moment
currently running and forthcoming precision neutrino oscillation experiments aim to unambiguously determine the neutrino mass ordering, the charge-parity violating phase in the lepton sector and the possible existence of physics beyond the standard model. to have an understanding of all the effects necessary for the su...
lepton-nucleus scattering measurements for neutrino interactions and oscillations
in the evaluation of the half-life of the neutrinoless double-β decay (0 ν β β ) of a doubly closed-subshell nucleus 96zr, the structure of the nucleus 96mo is essentially important. the α -clustering aspects of 96mo are investigated for the first time. by studying the nuclear rainbows in α scattering from 92zr at high...
α +92zr cluster structure in 96mo
we present a conceptual design of a high-performance camera system with applications to neutrino detectors, deep sea exploration, and glaciology. the design combines ultra-sensitive cameras with a number of well-calibrated light sources enclosed in a pressure vessel. the instrument will be capable of withstanding extre...
disco: an optical instrument to calibrate neutrino detection in complex media
we propose neutrino mass spectroscopy using er$^{3+}$:cs$_2$nayf$_6$ or :y$_2$o$_3$ crystal placed in hollow of a bragg fiber as a target system. unknown neutrino parameters and properties such as the lightest neutrino mass, majorana/dirac distinction, and cp violating phases can be explored by measuring scattered phot...
neutrino mass spectroscopy using er$^{3+}$ ions placed at inversion center of host crystals
the largest solar flares have been recorded in gamma flash and hard spectra up to tens gev energy. the present building and upgrade of hyper-kamiokande (hk) in japan and korea, (as well as deep core, pingu) megatons neutrino detectors do offer a novel way to detectable traces of solar flares: their sudden anti-neutrino...
solar neutrino flare, megaton neutrino detectors and human space journey
one of the substantial sources of systematic errors in neutrino oscillation experiments that utilize neutrinos from accelerator sources stems from a lack of precision in modeling single-pion production (spp). oscillation analyses rely on monte carlo event generators (mc), providing theoretical predictions of neutrino i...
angular distributions in monte carlo event generation of weak single-pion production
ship (search for hidden particles) is a proposed experiment to be installed at cern, with the aim of exploring the high intensity beam frontier to investigate the so-called hidden sector. since the sps proton beam interacting with the ship high density target is expected to produce a large neutrino flux, the experiment...
rpcs and readout system for the neutrino detector of the ship experiment
spacelike and timelike generalized parton distributions (gpds) have been investigated in charged-lepton scattering and electron-positron collisions via deeply virtual compton scattering and two-photon processes, respectively. furthermore, we expect that hadron-accelerator-facility measurements will be performed in futu...
possible studies on generalized parton distributions and gravitational form factors in neutrino reactions
the achievement of the goals of the ongoing and future accelerator-based neutrino experiments - notably the determination of cp violating phase in the lepton sector - will require the development of advanced models of neutrino-nucleus interactions. in this review, we summarise the present status of experimental studies...
towards a unified model of neutrino-nucleus interactions
we describe two recent developments of the radiative correction theory in semileptonic beta decays. for neutron, a novel dispersive analysis of the $\gamma w$-box diagram making use of neutrino scattering data leads to an improved precision and a shifted central value of $v_{ud}$; for kaon, an appropriate combination o...
new calculations of neutron and kaon decays
understanding the pion generation and the consequences of final-state interactions (fsi) are critical for the data processing in all neutrino experiments. the energy utilized in modern neutrino research of the resonance (res) generation processes contributes significantly to the pion production. if a pion is absorbed i...
pion production in {\\nu} {\\mu} charged current interactions on {^{40}}ar in deep underground neutrino experiment
we report a measurement of the strange axial coupling constant $g_a^s$ using atmospheric neutrino data at kamland. this constant is a component of the axial form factor of the neutral-current quasielastic (ncqe) interaction. the value of $g_a^s$ significantly changes the ratio of proton and neutron ncqe cross sections....
first measurement of the strange axial coupling constant using neutral-current quasielastic interactions of atmospheric neutrinos at kamland
neutrino scattering on a target at low-energy transfer is one of the basic tools for searching for neutrino electromagnetic properties. we consider the effects of the neutrino millicharge and magnetic moment on the atomic recoil spectrum in elastic neutrino-atom scattering. the results of our calculations of differenti...
elastic neutrino-atom scattering as a probe of neutrino millicharge and magnetic moment
the search for neutrino events in correlation with 42 most intense fast radio bursts (frbs) has been performed using the borexino dataset from 05/2007 to 06/2021. we have searched for signals with visible energies above 250 kev within a time window of ±1000 s corresponding to detection time of a particular frb. we also...
search for low-energy signals from fast radio bursts with the borexino detector
we discuss the phenomenology of a minimal model for gev-scale majorana dark matter (dm) coupled to the standard model lepton sector via a charged scalar singlet. the theoretical framework extends the standard model by two $su(2)_l$ singlets: one charged higgs boson and a singlet right-handed fermion. the latter plays t...
phenomenology of minimal leptophilic dark matter models at linear colliders
the nature of dark matter (dm) remains one of the most important unresolved questions of fundamental physics. many models, including weakly interacting massive particles (wimps), assume dm to be a particle and predict a weak coupling with standard model matter. if dm particles can scatter off nuclei in the vicinity of ...
search for dark matter from the center of the earth with 8 years of icecube data
the existence of beyond standard model (bsm) physics is firmly suggested by both experimental observations (dark matter, neutrino masses) and theoretical arguments. in the hypothesis that the scale of new physics is considerably higher than the energies probed at colliders, we can parametrise modified interactions indu...
searches for new interactions within the smeft framework at present and future colliders
within the impulse approximation, the modeling of the energy of final state leptons in electron and neutrino quasielastic and pion production processes on nuclear targets in the region of the $\delta$ resonance depends on several parameters. these parameters include the removal energy of the initial state nucleon from ...
nuclear potential of final state nucleons and nucleons plus single pions in lepton nucleus scattering
over the last years, new physics in terms of a novel weakly-interacting massive particle (wimp) has come more and more under pressure from experimental null results. while the remaining wimp parameter space will be probed by next generation dark matter experiments, models of light new physics have become increasingly p...
searching for light physics at the lhc
a 510 day long-term measurement of a 45.3 g platinum foil acting as the sample and high voltage contact in an ultra-low-background high purity germanium detector was performed at laboratori nazionali del gran sasso (italy). the data was used for a detailed study of double beta decay modes in natural platinum isotopes. ...
updated and novel limits on double beta decay and dark matter-induced processes in platinum
we apply the no-core shell model with continuum (ncsmc) that is capable of describing both bound and unbound states in light nuclei in a unified way with chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions as the only input. the ncsmc can predict structure and dynamics of light nuclei and, by comparing to available experimental...
ab initio investigations of a=8 nuclei: $\\alpha{-}\\alpha$ scattering, deformation in $^8$he, radiative capture of protons on $^7$be and $^7$li and the x17 boson
we have combined two low-threshold detector technologies to develop a large-mass, low-threshold detector system that simultaneously measures the athermal phonons in a sapphire detector while an adjacent silicon high-voltage detector detects the scintillation light from the sapphire detector. this detector system could ...
development of a large-mass, low-threshold detector system with simultaneous measurements of athermal phonons and scintillation light
progress in neutrino-nucleus cross section models is being driven by the need for highly accurate predictions for the neutrino oscillation community. these sophisticated models are being developed within a microscopic description of the nucleus with the goal of encompassing all reaction modes relevant for the accelerat...
interfacing electron and neutrino quasielastic scattering cross sections with the spectral function in genie
muons have a similar latency/energy correlation from pion decay as do the neutrinos, and hence in each time-slice in a stroboscopic analysis measurements of their momentum spectra can reduce systematic uncertainties due to flux. there are, however, unique issues for muons: 1) during standard neutrino data-taking muon m...
adding stroboscopic muon information for reduction of systematic uncertainties in dune
the red-100 experiment with a liquid xenon target was carried out at kalinin nuclear power plant. the goal of the experiment is the detection and study of the coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering process (ceνns) for the low-energy antineutrinos in close vicinity to a reactor core. a good understanding of the ex...
characterization of the ambient background in the red-100 experiment location at kalinin nuclear power plant
the production cross sections and polarization observables of the $\tau$ leptons produced in the $|\delta s| = 0$ and $1$ induced $\nu_{\tau}(\bar{\nu}_{\tau})-n$ quasielastic scattering have been studied. the effect of t violation, in the case of $\delta s=0$ and 1 processes, and the su(3) symmetry breaking effects, i...
t-violating effect in $\\nu_{\\tau} (\\bar{\\nu}_{\\tau})-$nucleon quasielastic scattering
the study of pion production and the effects of final state interactions (fsi) are important for data analysis in all neutrino experiments. for energies at which current neutrino experiments are being operated, a significant contribution to pion production is made by resonance production process. after its production, ...
study of pion production in νμ interactions on 40ar in dune using genie and nuwro event generators
we report the fabrication and performance of an annular, cryogenic, phonon-mediated veto detector that can host an inner target detector, allowing substantial reduction in radiogenic backgrounds for rare event search experiments. a germanium veto detector of mass ∼500 g with an outer diameter of 76 mm and an inner diam...
a novel active veto prototype detector with an inner target for improved rare event searches
background: in this study, two proton beam delivery designs, i.e. passive scattering proton therapy (pspt) and pencil beam scanning (pbs), were quantitatively compared in terms of dosimetric indices. the gate monte carlo (mc) particle transport code was used to simulate the proton beam system; and the developed simulat...
comparative assessment of passive scattering and active scanning proton therapy techniques using monte carlo simulations
we present a study of coherent pion production in neutrino-nucleus interactions using the formalism based on partially conserved axial current theorem which connects the neutrino-nucleus cross section to the pion-nucleus elastic scattering cross section. pion-nucleus elastic scattering cross section is calculated using...
coherent pion production in neutrino (anti-neutrino)-nucleus interaction
this paper describes a new method for momentum reconstruction of charged particles using multiple coulomb scatterings in a nuclear emulsion detector with a layered structure of nuclear emulsion films and target materials. the method utilizes the scattering angles of particles precisely measured in the emulsion films. t...
momentum reconstruction of charged particles using multiple coulomb scatterings in a nuclear emulsion detector
the emission of γ -rays after neutron capture in a cryogenic detector can generate monoenergetic nuclear recoils in the sub-kev regime, which is of direct interest for the calibration of dark matter and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments. here we show that accurate predictions of the spectra of to...
study of collision and γ -cascade times following neutron-capture processes in cryogenic detectors