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View article: First Measurement of Neutrino Emissions from Spent Nuclear Fuel by the Double Chooz Experiment
First Measurement of Neutrino Emissions from Spent Nuclear Fuel by the Double Chooz Experiment Open
Neutrino emission from nuclear reactors provides real-time insights into reactor power and fuel evolution, with potential applications in monitoring and nuclear safeguards. Following reactor shutdown, a low-intensity flux of ``residual neu…
View article: Monte Carlo Simulations of Factors Influencing Seasonal Variation of Multiple Muon Events
Monte Carlo Simulations of Factors Influencing Seasonal Variation of Multiple Muon Events Open
In a 2015 study, particle physicists reported the first observed seasonal variation of multiple muon events in the MINOS Far and Near Detectors, where multiple muon events created by cosmic rays were observed to be more numerous in the win…
View article: Measurement of the double-differential muon-neutrino charged-current inclusive cross section in the NOvA near detector
Measurement of the double-differential muon-neutrino charged-current inclusive cross section in the NOvA near detector Open
We report cross-section measurements of the final-state muon kinematics for nu mu charged-current interactions in the NOvA near detector using an accumulated 8.09 x 1020 protons on target in the NuMI beam. We present the results as a doubl…
View article: Search for Active-Sterile Antineutrino Mixing Using Neutral-Current Interactions with the NOvA Experiment
Search for Active-Sterile Antineutrino Mixing Using Neutral-Current Interactions with the NOvA Experiment Open
This Letter reports results from the first long-baseline search for sterile antineutrinos mixing in an accelerator-based antineutrino-dominated beam. The rate of neutral-current interactions in the two NOvA detectors, at distances of 1 km …
View article: Search for signatures of sterile neutrinos with Double Chooz
Search for signatures of sterile neutrinos with Double Chooz Open
We present a search for signatures of neutrino mixing of electron anti-neutrinos with additional hypothetical sterile neutrino flavors using the Double Chooz experiment. The search is based on data from 5 years of operation of Double Chooz…
View article: Design and performance of a 35-ton liquid argon time projection chamber as a prototype for future very large detectors
Design and performance of a 35-ton liquid argon time projection chamber as a prototype for future very large detectors Open
Liquid argon time projection chamber technology is an attractive choice for large neutrino detectors, as it provides a high-resolution active target and it is expected to be scalable to very large masses. Consequently, it has been chosen a…
View article: First Double Chooz $\\mathbf{\\theta_{13}}$ Measurement via Total Neutron Capture Detection
First Double Chooz $\\mathbf{\\theta_{13}}$ Measurement via Total Neutron Capture Detection Open
The establishment of the neutrino oscillations phenomenon as a solution to both solar and atmospheric neutrino anomalies had two consequences: a new oscillation mode, labelled $\\mathbf{\\theta_{13}}$, and the possibility to observe CP vio…
View article: Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector
Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector Open
Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon event rates which has an opposite phase to the seasonal variation in the atmospheric temperature. The stren…
View article: Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit
Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit Open
A search for mixing between active neutrinos and light sterile neutrinos has been performed by looking for muon neutrino disappearance in two detectors at baselines of 1.04 and 735 km, using a combined MINOS and MINOS+ exposure of 16.36×10…
View article: Neutrino Mistakes: Wrong tracks and Hints, Hopes and Failures
Neutrino Mistakes: Wrong tracks and Hints, Hopes and Failures Open
In the last two decades, the field of neutrino physics has made enormous progress in measuring the strength and frequency of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations. Along the way, there have been many instances of misunderstanding which le…
View article: Yields and production rates of cosmogenic <sup>9</sup>Li and <sup>8</sup>He measured with the Double Chooz near and far detectors
Yields and production rates of cosmogenic <sup>9</sup>Li and <sup>8</sup>He measured with the Double Chooz near and far detectors Open
The yields and production rates of the radioisotopes $^9$Li and $^8$He created by cosmic muon spallation on $^{12}$C, have been measured by the two detectors of the Double Chooz experiment. The identical detectors are located at separate s…
View article: Photon detector system timing performance in the DUNE 35-ton prototype liquid argon time projection chamber
Photon detector system timing performance in the DUNE 35-ton prototype liquid argon time projection chamber Open
Here, the 35-ton prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment far detector was a single-phase liquid argon time projection chamber with an integrated photon detector system, all situated inside a membrane cryostat. The detector t…
View article: Yields and production rates of $^9$Li and $^8$He measured with the Double Chooz near and far detectors
Yields and production rates of $^9$Li and $^8$He measured with the Double Chooz near and far detectors Open
The yields and production rates of the radioisotopes $^9$Li and $^8$He created by cosmic muon spallation on $^{12}$C have been measured by the Double Chooz experiment. Comparing the data to a detailed simulation of the $^9$Li and $^8$He de…
View article: Search for active-sterile neutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions in NOvA
Search for active-sterile neutrino mixing using neutral-current interactions in NOvA Open
We report results from the first search for sterile neutrinos mixing with active neutrinos through a reduction in the rate of neutral-current interactions over a baseline of 810 km between the NOvA detectors. Analyzing a 14-kton detector e…
View article: Seasonal Variation of Multiple-Muon Events in MINOS and NOvA
Seasonal Variation of Multiple-Muon Events in MINOS and NOvA Open
Seasonal Variations of Multiple Muons at the MINOS Near Detector (ND) and Far Detector (FD) are reported. The features of the data differ from the single-muon seasonal variations seen by both detectors and many other underground experiment…
View article: Neutrino Oscillations in the NOvA experiment
Neutrino Oscillations in the NOvA experiment Open
Analysis of an exposure of 6e20 protons on target of the NuMI muon neutrino beam have produced precision measurements of both disappearance and appearance oscillations, including the first hints that muon to tau neutrino mixing is not maxi…
View article: Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS experiment
Constraints on large extra dimensions from the MINOS experiment Open
We report new constraints on the size of large extra dimensions from data collected by the MINOS experiment between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis employs a model in which sterile neutrinos arise as Kaluza-Klein states in large extra dimensio…
View article: Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS
Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS Open
We report results of a search for oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino over distances of 1.04 and 735 km in a ν_{μ}-dominated beam with a peak energy of 3 GeV. The data, from an exposure of 10.56×10^{20} protons on target, are a…
View article: Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments Open
Searches for a light sterile neutrino have been performed independently by the MINOS and the Daya Bay experiments using the muon (anti)neutrino and electron antineutrino disappearance channels, respectively. In this Letter, results from bo…
View article: Characterization of the spontaneous light emission of the PMTs used in the Double Chooz experiment
Characterization of the spontaneous light emission of the PMTs used in the Double Chooz experiment Open
During the commissioning of the first of the two detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, an unexpected and dominant background caused by the emission of light inside the optical volume has been observed. A specific study of the ensemble …
View article: Search for time-independent Lorentz violation using muon neutrino to muon antineutrino transitions in MINOS
Search for time-independent Lorentz violation using muon neutrino to muon antineutrino transitions in MINOS Open
Data from the MINOS experiment has been used to search for mixing between muon neutrinos and muon antineutrinos using a time-independent Lorentz-violating formalism derived from the Standard-Model Extension (SME). MINOS is uniquely capable…
View article: Search for time-independent Lorentz violation using muon neutrino to\n muon antineutrino transitions in MINOS
Search for time-independent Lorentz violation using muon neutrino to\n muon antineutrino transitions in MINOS Open
Data from the MINOS experiment has been used to search for mixing between\nmuon neutrinos and muon antineutrinos using a time-independent\nLorentz-violating formalism derived from the Standard-Model Extension (SME).\nMINOS is uniquely capa…
View article: Nucleon Decay, Atmospheric Neutrinos, and Cosmic Rays at DUNE: September 2016 Progress Report
Nucleon Decay, Atmospheric Neutrinos, and Cosmic Rays at DUNE: September 2016 Progress Report Open
We report on the progress made within the Nucleon Decay, Atmospheric Neutrinos, and Cosmogenics Physics Working Groups since the DUNE CDR, and in particular in the period September 2015 { September 2016. This note is also intended to provi…
View article: Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors
Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors Open
We report a two-detector measurement of the propagation speed of neutrinos over a baseline of 734 km. The measurement was made with the NuMI beam at Fermilab between the near and far MINOS detectors. The fractional difference between the n…
View article: Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors
Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors Open
We report a two-detector measurement of the propagation speed of neutrinos over a baseline of 734 km. The measurement was made with the NuMI beam at Fermilab between the near and far MINOS detectors. The fractional difference between the n…
View article: Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the MINOS Near and Far Detectors
Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the MINOS Near and Far Detectors Open
We report the first observation of seasonal modulations in the rates of cosmic ray multiple-muon events at two underground sites, the MINOS Near Detector with an overburden of 225 mwe, and the MINOS Far Detector site at 2100 mwe. At the de…