Neutrino Beam Simulations and Data Checks for the NOvA Experiment

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Del Tutto
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Beam

RECENT RESULTS FROM K2K

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 3364-3377 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
C. K. JUNG
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Atmospheric Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Statistical Fluctuation ◽  
Atmospheric Neutrinos ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Neutrino Oscillation Experiment ◽  
Oscillation Analysis ◽  
The Us ◽  
Oscillation Experiment

K2K is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a neutrino beam produced at the KEK 12 GeV PS, a near detector complex at KEK and a far detector (Super-Kamiokande) in Kamioka, Japan. The experiment was constructed and is being operated by an international consortium of institutions from Japan, Korea, and the US. The experiment started taking data in 1999 and has successfully taken data for about two years. K2K is the first long beseline neutrino oscillation experiment with a baseline of order hundreds of km and is the first accelerator based neutrino oscillation experiment that is sensitive to the Super-Kamiokande allowed region obtained from the atmospheric neutrino oscillation analysis. A total of 44 events have been observed in the far detector during the period of June 1999 to April 2001 corresponding to 3.85 × 1019 protons on target. The observation is consistent with the neutrino oscillation expectations based on the oscillation parameters derived from the atmospheric neutrinos, and the probability that this is a statistical fluctuation of non-oscillation expectation of [Formula: see text] is less than 3%.

scholarly journals Energy dependence of CP-violation reach for monochromatic neutrino beam

2008 ◽  
Vol 664 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 285-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Bernabéu ◽  
Catalina Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Cp Violation ◽  
Energy Dependence ◽  
Neutrino Beam

scholarly journals Predicting transport effects of scintillation light signals in large-scale liquid argon detectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Garcia-Gamez ◽  
Patrick Green ◽  
Andrzej M. Szelc
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Light Propagation ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Equivalent Model ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Scintillation Light ◽  
Arrival Times ◽  
Light Detector ◽  
Transport Effects ◽  
Time Projection

AbstractLiquid argon is being employed as a detector medium in neutrino physics and Dark Matter searches. A recent push to expand the applications of scintillation light in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber neutrino detectors has necessitated the development of advanced methods of simulating this light. The presently available methods tend to be prohibitively slow or imprecise due to the combination of detector size and the amount of energy deposited by neutrino beam interactions. In this work we present a semi-analytical model to predict the quantity of argon scintillation light observed by a light detector with a precision better than $$10\%$$ 10 % , based only on the relative positions between the scintillation and light detector. We also provide a method to predict the distribution of arrival times of these photons accounting for propagation effects. Additionally, we present an equivalent model to predict the number of photons and their arrival times in the case of a wavelength-shifting, highly-reflective layer being present on the detector cathode. Our proposed method can be used to simulate light propagation in large-scale liquid argon detectors such as DUNE or SBND, and could also be applied to other detector mediums such as liquid xenon or xenon-doped liquid argon.

scholarly journals Three-Flavor Oscillations with Accelerator Neutrino Beams

Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Mezzetto ◽  
Francesco Terranova
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Physics ◽  
High Power ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Uncertainty Reduction ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Flavor Oscillations ◽  
Massive Neutrinos ◽  
Neutrino Experiments

The three-flavor neutrino oscillation paradigm is well established in particle physics thanks to the crucial contribution of accelerator neutrino beam experiments. In this paper, we review the most important contributions of these experiments to the physics of massive neutrinos after the discovery of θ 13 and future perspectives in such a lively field of research. Special emphasis is given to the technical challenges of high power beams and the oscillation results of T2K, OPERA, ICARUS, and NO ν A. We discuss in detail the role of accelerator neutrino experiments in the precision era of neutrino physics in view of DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, the program of systematic uncertainty reduction and the development of new beam facilities.

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