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View article: Calibrating LArPix for TinyTPC
Calibrating LArPix for TinyTPC Open
LArTPCs provide sensitivity to GeV signals, such as accelerator neutrinos and part of the supernova neutrino spectrum. TinyTPC is a LArTPC test stand for R&D of LAr doping to expand the reach of LArTPCs down to the 1-10 MeV range, which wo…
View article: TinyTPC: A Test Stand for LAr Doping
TinyTPC: A Test Stand for LAr Doping Open
TinyTPC is a small scale liquid-argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) featuring a pixelated readout system (LArPix) designed to improve the detection of charged particles. To enhance energy measurements at MeV scales, TinyTPC will study t…
View article: TinyTPC - A Test Stand for Photosensitive Dopants
TinyTPC - A Test Stand for Photosensitive Dopants Open
Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are widely used to study accelerator neutrinos. Since LArTPCs are sensitive down to 10– 100 keV, neutrino experiments' physics programs could be extended to lower energies. However, in this s…
View article: R&D for LAr + Xe + photosensitive dopants
R&D for LAr + Xe + photosensitive dopants Open
LArTPCs are the technology of choice for current and future neutrino experiments, including those expected to make eagerly awaited measurements of accelerator neutrino oscillations in the coming decade. This technology provides a large act…
View article: TinyTPC - A test stand for photosensitive dopants
TinyTPC - A test stand for photosensitive dopants Open
LArTPCs highly doped with Xenon could be interesting platforms for probing MeV- and sub-MeV physics including neutrinoless-double beta decay. A main hurdle is the small fraction of scintillation photons that are collected, which significan…
View article: Xenon-doped liquid argon TPCs as a neutrinoless double beta decay platform
Xenon-doped liquid argon TPCs as a neutrinoless double beta decay platform Open
Searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay continue to expand our understanding of the lepton sector, with experiments now pursuing ton-scale target masses with sensitivity to $\\mathcal{m_{bb}}$ covering the allowed parameter space for t…
View article: Snowmass Early Career
Snowmass Early Career Open
The Snowmass 2021 strategic planning process provided an essential opportunity for the United States high energy physics and astroparticle (HEPA) community to come together and discuss upcoming physics goals and experiments. As this forwar…
View article: Snowmass Early Career
Snowmass Early Career Open
The Snowmass 2021 strategic planning process provided an essential opportunity for the United States high energy physics and astroparticle (HEPA) community to come together and discuss upcoming physics goals and experiments. As this forwar…
View article: Photosensitive dopants and DUNE Phase-II [Slides]
Photosensitive dopants and DUNE Phase-II [Slides] Open
is crucial for accurate calorimetric energy reconstruction of low-energy physics signals. The doping agent that will be used is isobutylene and the radiation sources are Co-60, Y-88, and Th-228.
View article: Dark-matter And Neutrino Computation Explored (DANCE) Community Input to Snowmass
Dark-matter And Neutrino Computation Explored (DANCE) Community Input to Snowmass Open
This paper summarizes the needs of the dark matter and neutrino communities as it relates to computation. The scope includes data acquisition, triggers, data management and processing, data preservation, simulation, machine learning, data …
View article: Dark-matter And Neutrino Computation Explored (DANCE) Community Input to\n Snowmass
Dark-matter And Neutrino Computation Explored (DANCE) Community Input to\n Snowmass Open
This paper summarizes the needs of the dark matter and neutrino communities\nas it relates to computation. The scope includes data acquisition, triggers,\ndata management and processing, data preservation, simulation, machine\nlearning, da…
View article: Cosmic Ray Background Removal With Deep Neural Networks in SBND
Cosmic Ray Background Removal With Deep Neural Networks in SBND Open
In liquid argon time projection chambers exposed to neutrino beams and running on or near surface levels, cosmic muons, and other cosmic particles are incident on the detectors while a single neutrino-induced event is being recorded. In pr…
View article: Impacts of Energy Reconstruction on SBN Oscillation Measurements
Impacts of Energy Reconstruction on SBN Oscillation Measurements Open
the cryogenic systems. Fermilab has already built two new facilities to house SBND and SBN-FD detectors. The cryogenic systems for these detectors are in various stages of design and construction with CERN and Fermilab being responsible fo…
View article: Cosmic Background Removal with Deep Neural Networks in SBND
Cosmic Background Removal with Deep Neural Networks in SBND Open
In liquid argon time projection chambers exposed to neutrino beams and running on or near surface levels, cosmic muons and other cosmic particles are incident on the detectors while a single neutrino-induced event is being recorded. In pra…
View article: A Review on Machine Learning for Neutrino Experiments
A Review on Machine Learning for Neutrino Experiments Open
Neutrino experiments study the least understood of the Standard Model particles by observing their direct interactions with matter or searching for ultra-rare signals. The study of neutrinos typically requires overcoming large backgrounds,…
View article: Context-enriched identification of particles with a convolutional network for neutrino events
Context-enriched identification of particles with a convolutional network for neutrino events Open
Particle detectors record the interactions of subatomic particles and their passage through matter. The identification of these particles is necessary for in-depth physics analysis. While particles can be identified by their individual beh…
View article: Low-diffusion Xe-He gas mixtures for rare-event detection: Electroluminescence Yield
Low-diffusion Xe-He gas mixtures for rare-event detection: Electroluminescence Yield Open
High pressure xenon Time Projection Chambers (TPC) based on secondary scintillation (electroluminescence) signal amplification are being proposed for rare event detection such as directional dark matter, double electron capture and double …
View article: Efficiency of the topological signature in the NEXT-White detector
Efficiency of the topological signature in the NEXT-White detector Open
In experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, the possibility of identifying the two emitted electrons is a powerful tool in rejecting background events and therefore improving the overall sensitivity of the experiment. In t…
View article: HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Training, Staffing and Careers
HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Training, Staffing and Careers Open
The rapid evolution of technology and the parallel increasing complexity of algorithmic analysis in HEP requires developers to acquire a much larger portfolio of programming skills. Young researchers graduating from universities worldwide …
View article: Measurement of radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT double beta decay experiment
Measurement of radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT double beta decay experiment Open
The measurement of the internal $^{222}$Rn activity in the NEXT-White detector during the so-called Run-II period with $^{136}$Xe-depleted xenon is discussed in detail, together with its implications for double beta decay searches in NEXT.…
View article: Measurement of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and Improvements from Deep Learning
Measurement of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and Improvements from Deep Learning Open
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment which measures the oscillation of muon neutrinos from the NuMI beam at Fermilab after they travel through the Earth for 810 km. In this dissertation I describe the operations and moni…
View article: Event Reconstruction in the NOvA Experiment
Event Reconstruction in the NOvA Experiment Open
The NOvA experiment observes oscillations in two channels (electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance) using a predominantly muon-neutrino NuMI beam. The Near Detector records multiple overlapping neutrino interactions in…
View article: The Convolutional Visual Network for Identification and Reconstruction of NOvA Events
The Convolutional Visual Network for Identification and Reconstruction of NOvA Events Open
In 2016 the NOvA experiment released results for the observation of oscillations in the vμ and ve channels as well as ve cross section measurements using neutrinos from Fermilab’s NuMI beam. These and other measurements in progress rely on…
View article: CVN A Convolutional Visual Network for Identication and Reconstruction of NOvA Events
CVN A Convolutional Visual Network for Identication and Reconstruction of NOvA Events Open
In the past year, the NOvA experiment released results for the observation of neutrino oscillations in the νμ and νe channels as well as νe cross section measurements using neutrinos from Fermilab's NuMI beam. These and other measurements …
View article: A convolutional neural network neutrino event classifier
A convolutional neural network neutrino event classifier Open
Here, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely applied in the computer vision community to solve complex problems in image recognition and analysis. We describe an application of the CNN technology to the problem of identifyin…