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Sorel, M. |
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Expected performance of an ideal liquid argon neutrino detector with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light |
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2014 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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9 |
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P10002 - 25pp |
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Noble liquid detectors (scintillation, ionization, double-phase); Neutrino detectors; Calorimeters; Time projection chambers |
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Scintillation light is used in liquid argon (LAr) neutrino detectors to provide a trigger signal, veto information against cosmic rays, and absolute event timing. In this work, we discuss additional opportunities offered by detectors with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light, that is with light collection efficiencies of about 10(-3). We focus on two key detector performance indicators for neutrino oscillation physics: calorimetric neutrino energy reconstruction and neutrino/antineutrino separation in a non-magnetized detector. Our results are based on detailed simulations, with neutrino interactions modelled according to the GENIE event generator, while the charge and light responses of a large LAr ideal detector are described by the Geant4 and NEST simulation tools. A neutrino energy resolution as good as 3.3% RMS for 4 GeV electron neutrino charged-current interactions can in principle be obtained in a large detector of this type, by using both charge and light information. By exploiting muon capture in argon and scintillation light information to veto muon decay electrons, we also obtain muon neutrino identification efficiencies of about 50%, and muon antineutrino misidentification rates at the few percent level, for few-GeV neutrino interactions that are fully contained. We argue that the construction of large LAr detectors with sufficiently high light collection efficiencies is in principle possible. |
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[Sorel, M.] CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: sorel@ific.uv.es |
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1748-0221 |
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WOS:000345858500045 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2056 |
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XENON Collaboration (Aprile, E. et al); Orrigo, S.E.A. |
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Conceptual design and simulation of a water Cherenkov muon veto for the XENON1T experiment |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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9 |
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P11006 - 20pp |
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Cherenkov detectors; Cherenkov and transition radiation; Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc); Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.) |
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XENON is a dark matter direct detection project, consisting of a time projection chamber (TPC) filled with liquid xenon as detection medium. The construction of the next generation detector, XENON1T, is presently taking place at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It aims at a sensitivity to spin-independent cross sections of 2.10(47) cm(2) for WIMP masses around 50 GeV/c(2), which requires a background reduction by two orders of magnitude compared to XENON100, the current generation detector. An active system that is able to tag muons and muon-induced backgrounds is critical for this goal. A water Cherenkov detector of similar to 10m height and diameter has been therefore developed, equipped with 8 inch photomultipliers and cladded by a reflective foil. We present the design and optimization study for this detector, which has been carried out with a series of Monte Carlo simulations. The muon veto will reach very high detection efficiencies for muons (> 99.5%) and showers of secondary particles from muon interactions in the rock (> 70%). Similar efficiencies will be obtained for XENONnT, the upgrade of XENON1T, which will later improve the WIMP sensitivity by another order of magnitude. With the Cherenkov water shield studied here, the background from muon-induced neutrons in XENON1T is negligible. |
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[Aprile, E.; Contreras, H.; Goetzke, L. W.; Fernandez, A. J. Melgarejo; Messina, M.; Plante, G.; Rizzo, A.] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA, Email: dr.serena.fattori@gmail.com |
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WOS:000345026000020 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2061 |
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Greynat, D.; Sesma, J.; Vulvert, G. |
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Derivatives of the Pochhammer and reciprocal Pochhammer symbols and their use in epsilon-expansions of Appell and Kampe de Feriet functions |
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2014 |
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Journal of Mathematical Physics |
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J. Math. Phys. |
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55 |
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4 |
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043501 - 16pp |
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Useful expressions of the derivatives, to any order, of Pochhammer and reciprocal Pochhammer symbols with respect to their arguments are presented. They are building blocks of a procedure, recently suggested, for obtaining the e-expansion of functions of the hypergeometric class related to Feynman integrals. The procedure is applied to some examples of such kind of functions taken from the literature. |
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[Greynat, David] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Dipartimento Fis, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy, Email: david.greynat@gmail.com; |
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Amer Inst Physics |
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0022-2488 |
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WOS:000336084100030 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1799 |
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Pastore, A.; Davesne, D.; Navarro, J. |
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Nuclear matter response function with a central plus tensor Landau interaction |
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2014 |
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Journal of Physics G |
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J. Phys. G |
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41 |
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5 |
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055103 - 17pp |
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Landau; random phase approximation; phenomenological interactions; tensor |
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We present a method to obtain response functions in the random phase approximation (RPA) based on a residual interaction described in terms of Landau parameters with central plus tensor contributions. The response functions keep the explicit momentum dependence of the RPA, in contrast with the traditional Landau approximation. Results for symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter are presented using Landau parameters derived from finite-range interactions, both phenomenological and microscopic. We study the convergence of response functions as the number of Landau parameters is increased. |
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[Pastore, A.; Navarro, J.] Univ Libre Brussels, Inst Astron & Astrophys, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, Email: apastore@ulb.ac.be |
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WOS:000334662500015 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1750 |
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Davesne, D.; Pastore, A.; Navarro, J. |
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Fitting (NLO)-L-3 pseudo-potentials through central plus tensor Landau parameters |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
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Journal of Physics G |
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J. Phys. G |
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41 |
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6 |
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065104 - 12pp |
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Landau parameters; (NLO)-L-3; phenomenological interactions; fitting methods |
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Landau parameters determined from phenomenological finite-range interactions are used to get an estimation of next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order ((NLO)-L-3) pseudo-potentials parameters. The parameter sets obtained in this way are shown to lead to consistent results concerning saturation properties. The uniqueness of this procedure is discussed, and an estimate of the error induced by the truncation at (NLO)-L-3 is given. |
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[Davesne, D.] Univ Lyon, F-69622 Lyon, France, Email: davesne@inpl.in2p3.fr |
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WOS:000338425100009 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1838 |
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