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European Strategy for Particle Physics Update -- PIONEER: a next generation rare pion decay experiment Open

PIONEER Collaboration, A. Adelmann, W. Altmannshofer, S. Ban, O. Beesley , et al. · 2025

PIONEER is a rapidly developing effort aimed to perform a pristine test of lepton flavour universality (LFU) and of the unitarity of the first row of the CKM matrix by significantly improving the measurements of rare decays of the charged …

The Dawn of Collider Neutrino Physics Open

E. Worcester · 2023

The Dawn of Collider Neutrino PhysicsThe first observation of neutrinos produced at a particle collider opens a new field of study and offers ways to test the limits of the standard model. By Elizabeth WorcesterN eutrinos are among the mos…

Experimental Considerations in Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Measurements Open

F. Di Lodovico, R. B. Patterson, M. Shiozawa, E. Worcester · 2023

Long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, which are among the largest neutrino experiments in the world, have extensive physics programs to make precision measurements of three-flavor oscillation parameters, search for physics beyond…

Neutron detection and application with a novel 3D-projection scintillator tracker in the future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments Open

S. Gwon, Pierre Granger, G. Yang, S. Bolognesi, T. Cai , et al. · 2023

Neutrino oscillation experiments require a precise measurement of the\nneutrino energy. However, the kinematic detection of the final-state neutron in\nthe neutrino interaction is missing in current neutrino oscillation\nexperiments. The m…

Report of the 2021 U.S. Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021) Summary Chapter Open

J. N. Butler, R. Sekhar Chivukula, André de Gouvêa, Tao Han, Y. K. Kim , et al. · 2023

The 2021-22 High-Energy Physics Community Planning Exercise (a.k.a. ``Snowmass 2021'') was organized by the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. Snowmass 2021 was a scientific study that provided an opportunit…

Snowmass Neutrino Frontier Report Open

Patrick Huber, K. Scholberg, E. Worcester · 2022

This report summarizes the current status of neutrino physics and the broad and exciting future prospects identified for the Neutrino Frontier as part of the 2021 Snowmass Process.

Snowmass Neutrino Frontier Report Open

Patrick Huber, K. Scholberg, E. Worcester, Jonathan Asaadi, A. Baha Balantekin , et al. · 2022

This report summarizes the current status of neutrino physics and the broad and exciting future prospects identified for the Neutrino Frontier as part of the 2021 Snowmass Process.

Neutrino Mystery Endures Open

E. Worcester · 2022

Neutrino Mystery EnduresNew neutrino-oscillation data show no sign of an anomalous signal seen in previous studies, but the analyses can't yet fully rule out its presence.

Testing Lepton Flavor Universality and CKM Unitarity with Rare Pion Decays in the PIONEER experiment Open

PIONEER Collaboration, W. Altmannshofer, H. Binney, E. Blucher, D. Bryman , et al. · 2022

The physics motivation and the conceptual design of the PIONEER experiment, a next-generation rare pion decay experiment testing lepton flavor universality and CKM unitarity, are described. Phase I of the PIONEER experiment, which was prop…

PIONEER: Studies of Rare Pion Decays Open

PIONEER Collaboration, W. Altmannshofer, H. Binney, E. Blucher, D. Bryman , et al. · 2022

A next-generation rare pion decay experiment, PIONEER, is strongly motivated by several inconsistencies between Standard Model (SM) predictions and data pointing towards the potential violation of lepton flavor universality. It will probe …

Reconstruction performance studies for liquid argon time projection chambers with two and three readout planes Open

D. Brailsford, M. B. Brunetti, S. Alonso Monsalve, A. Blake, Andy Chappell , et al. · 2021

One of the original questions in defining the design of the VD LArTPC was whether to adopt a configuration with three or two readout planes, where the former is a well-established technology and has since been identified as the reference c…

The ProtoDUNE-SP LArTPC electronics production, commissioning, and performance Open

D. L. Adams, M. Bass, M. Bishai, C. Bromberg, J. Calcutt , et al. · 2020

The ProtoDUNE-SP detector is a large-scale prototype of the Single-Phase (SP) Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) design proposed for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). 15,360 LArTPC wires are instrumented with low …

Theia: an advanced optical neutrino detector Open

M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros, E. W. Beier, E. Blücher , et al. · 2020

New developments in liquid scintillators, high-efficiency, fast photon detectors, and chromatic photon sorting have opened up the possibility for building a large-scale detector that can discriminate between Cherenkov and scintillation sig…

Measurement of the branching ratio of Dalitz decay using decays Open

E. Abouzaid, W. To, A. Barker, L. Bellantoni, E. Blücher , et al. · 2019

We present a measurement of B(π0→e+e-γ)/B(π0→γγ), the Dalitz branching ratio, using data taken in 1999 by the E832 KTeV experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. We use neutral pions from fully reconstructed KL decays in flight;…

Neutrino Oscillation Parameters: Future Open

J. López-Pavón, E. Worcester · 2019

The Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW2018) included a session addressing neutrino oscillation parameters in the future. This session included discussion of planned and proposed experiments, detector technologies, and analysis techniques t…

Cold electronics readout system for protoDUNE-SP LAr-TPC Open

H. Chen, J. Fried, S. Gao, S. H. Kettell, V. Radeka , et al. · 2018

Photon detector system timing performance in the DUNE 35-ton prototype liquid argon time projection chamber Open

D. L. Adams, T. Alion, John T. Anderson, L. Bagby, M. Baird , et al. · 2018

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…

The Development of Front-End Readout Electronics for ProtoDUNE-SP LAr TPC Open

S. Gao, H. Berns, H. Chen, Alessio D’Andragora, J. Fried , et al. · 2018

As a prototype of Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment far detector, ProtoDUNE single-phase liquid argon Time Projection Chamber will sit in H4 beam line at CERN to study detector response to particles. It consists of 6 full-size Anode Pla…

The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report Open

B. Abi, S. Bansal, А.А. Федоров, Bugra Kocaman, M. Dracos , et al. · 2017

ProtoDUNE-SP is the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype that is under construction and will be operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) starting in 2018. ProtoDUNE-SP, a crucial part of the DUNE effort towards the construction of t…

DUNE Strategy for Controlling Systematic Uncertainties Open

E. Worcester · 2016

Experiment Simulation Configurations Used in DUNE CDR Open

T. Alion, J. J. Back, A. Bashyal, M. Bass, M. Bishai , et al. · 2016

The LBNF/DUNE CDR describes the proposed physics program and experimental design at the conceptual design phase. Volume 2, entitled The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF, outlines the scientific objectives and describes the physics studies …

Experiment Simulation Configurations Used in DUNE CDR Open

T. Alion, John Black, A. Bashyal, M. Bass, M. Bishai , et al. · 2016

The LBNF/DUNE CDR describes the proposed physics program and experimental design at the conceptual design phase. Volume 2, entitled The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF, outlines the scientific objectives and describes the physics studies …

Characterization and modeling of a Water-based Liquid Scintillator Open

L.J. Bignell, Dmitriy Beznosko, M. Diwan, S. Hans, D. E. Jaffe , et al. · 2015

We have characterised Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) using low energy protons, \nUV-VIS absorbance, and fluorescence spectroscopy. We have also developed and validated a \nsimulation model that describes the behaviour of WbLS in ou…

Precision Measurements of Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation at LBNF Open

E. Worcester · 2015

Baseline optimization for the measurement ofviolation, mass hierarchy, andoctant in a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment Open

M. Bass, M. Bishai, D. Cherdack, M. Diwan, Z. Djurcic , et al. · 2015

Next-generation long-baseline electron neutrino appearance experiments will\nseek to discover CP violation, determine the mass hierarchy and resolve the\n$\\theta_{23}$ octant. In light of the recent precision measurements of\n$\\theta_{13…

Summary of long-baseline systematics session at CETUP*2014 Open

D. Cherdack, E. Worcester · 2015

A session studying systematics in long-baseline neutrino oscillation physics\nwas held July 14-18, 2014 as part of CETUP* 2014. Systematic effects from flux\nnormalization and modeling, modeling of cross sections and nuclear\ninteractions,…

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