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Real, D.; Calvo, D. |
| Title |
Silicon Photomultipliers for Neutrino Telescopes |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2023 |
Publication |
Universe |
Abbreviated Journal |
Universe |
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9 |
Issue |
7 |
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326 - 14pp |
| Keywords |
silicon photomultipliers; neutrino telescopes; time to digital converters; electronics acquisition |
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Neutrino astronomy has opened a new window to the extreme Universe, entering into a fruitful era built upon the success of neutrino telescopes, which have already given a new step forward in this novel and growing field by the first observation of steady point-like sources already achieved by IceCube. Neutrino telescopes equipped with Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPMs) will significantly increase in number, because of their excellent time resolution and the angular resolution, and will be in better condition to detect more steady sources as well as the unexpected. The use of SiPMs represents a challenge to the acquisition electronics because of the fast signals as well as the high levels of dark noise produced by SiPMs. The acquisition electronics need to include a noise rejection scheme by implementing a coincidence filter between channels. This work discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using SiPMs for the next generation of neutrino telescopes, focusing on the possible developments that could help for their adoption in the near future. |
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[Real, Diego; Calvo, David] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, IFIC, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: real@ific.uv.es |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Das, C.R.; Mena, O.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Pascoli, S. |
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Determining the dark matter mass with DeepCore |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2013 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
| Volume |
725 |
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4-5 |
Pages |
297-301 |
| Keywords |
Dark matter; Neutrino telescopes |
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Cosmological and astrophysical observations provide increasing evidence of the existence of dark matter in our Universe. Dark matter particles with a mass above a few GeV can be captured by the Sun, accumulate in the core, annihilate, and produce high energy neutrinos either directly or by subsequent decays of Standard Model particles. We investigate the prospects for indirect dark matter detection in the IceCube/DeepCore neutrino telescope and its capabilities to determine the dark matter mass. |
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[Das, Chitta R.; Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio] Univ Ten Lisboa, Inst Super Tecn, CFTP, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal, Email: sergio.palomares.ruiz@ist.utl.pt |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000324223100015 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1589 |
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Sierra, D.A.; De Romeri, V.; Flores, L.J.; Papoulias, D.K. |
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Axionlike particles searches in reactor experiments |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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03 |
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3 |
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294 - 38pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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Reactor neutrino experiments provide a rich environment for the study of axionlike particles (ALPs). Using the intense photon flux produced in the nuclear reactor core, these experiments have the potential to probe ALPs with masses below 10MeV. We explore the feasibility of these searches by considering ALPs produced through Primakoff and Compton-like processes as well as nuclear transitions. These particles can subsequently interact with the material of a nearby detector via inverse Primakoff and inverse Compton-like scatterings, via axio-electric absorption, or they can decay into photon or electron-positron pairs. We demonstrate that reactor-based neutrino experiments have a high potential to test ALP-photon couplings and masses, currently probed only by cosmological and astrophysical observations, thus providing complementary laboratory-based searches. We furthermore show how reactor facilities will be able to test previously unexplored regions in the similar to MeV ALP mass range and ALP-electron couplings of the order of gaee similar to 10(-8) as well as ALP-nucleon couplings of the order of g (1) ann similar to 10(-9), testing regions beyond TEXONO and Borexino limits. |
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[Aristizabal Sierra, D.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Dept Fis, Casilla 110-V,Avda Espa 1680, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: daristizabal@ulg.ac.be; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000636459500005 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4793 |
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ANTARES Collaboration (Albert, A. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Coleiro, A.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Lotze, M.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
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An Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Neutrino-induced Showers in the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
Astronomical Journal |
Abbreviated Journal |
Astron. J. |
| Volume |
154 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
275 - 9pp |
| Keywords |
neutrinos; telescopes |
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Muons created by nu(mu) charged current (CC) interactions in the water surrounding the ANTARES neutrino telescope have been almost exclusively used so far in searches for cosmic neutrino sources. Due to their long range, highly energetic muons inducing Cherenkov radiation in the water are reconstructed with dedicated algorithms that allow for the determination of the parent neutrino direction with a median angular resolution of about 0 degrees.4 for an E-2 neutrino spectrum. In this paper, an algorithm optimized for accurate reconstruction of energy and direction of shower events in the ANTARES detector is presented. Hadronic showers of electrically charged particles are produced by the disintegration of the nucleus both in CC and neutral current interactions of neutrinos in water. In addition, electromagnetic showers result from the CC interactions of electron neutrinos while the decay of a tau lepton produced in nu(tau) CC interactions will, in most cases, lead to either a hadronic or an electromagnetic shower. A shower can be approximated as a point source of photons. With the presented method, the shower position is reconstructed with a precision of about 1 m; the neutrino direction is reconstructed with a median angular resolution between 2 degrees and 3 degrees in the energy range of 1-1000 TeV. In this energy interval, the uncertainty on the reconstructed neutrino energy is about 5%-10%. The increase in the detector sensitivity due to the use of additional information from shower events in the searches for a cosmic neutrino flux is also presented. |
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[Albert, A.; Drouhin, D.; Racca, C.] Univ Haute Alsace, GRPHE, Inst Univ Technol Colmar, 34 Rue Grillenbreit,BP 50568, F-68008 Colmar, France |
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0004-6256 |
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WOS:000425438400001 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3498 |
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NOMAD Collaboration (Kullenberg, C.T. et al); Cervera-Villanueva, A.; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J. |
| Title |
A search for single photon events in neutrino interactions |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2012 |
Publication |
Physics Letters B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Lett. B |
| Volume |
706 |
Issue |
4-5 |
Pages |
268-275 |
| Keywords |
Single photon; Neutrino; Neutral current; Coherent; Pion |
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We present a search for neutrino induced events containing a single, exclusive photon using data from the NOMAD experiment at the CERN SPS where the average energy of the neutrino flux is similar or equal to 25 GeV. The search is motivated by an excess of electron-like events in the 200-475 MeV energy region as reported by the MiniBooNE experiment. In NOMAD, photons are identified via their conversion to e(+)e(-) in an active target embedded in a magnetic field. The background to the single photon signal is dominated by the asymmetric decay of neutral pions produced either in a coherent neutrino-nucleus interaction, or in a neutrino-nucleon neutral current deep inelastic scattering, or in an interaction occurring outside the fiducial volume. All three backgrounds are determined in situ using control data samples prior to opening the 'signal-box'. In the signal region, we observe 155 events with a predicted background of 129.2 +/- 8.5 +/- 3.3. We interpret this as null evidence for excess of single photon events, and set a limit. Assuming that the hypothetical single photon has a momentum distribution similar to that of a photon from the coherent pi(0) decay, the measurement yields an upper limit on single photon events, < 4.0 x 10(-4) per nu(mu) charged current event. Narrowing the search to events where the photon is approximately collinear with the incident neutrino, we observe 78 events with a predicted background of 76.6 +/- 4.9 +/- 1.9 yielding a more stringent upper limit, < 1.6 x 10(-4) per nu(mu) charged current event. |
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[Kullenberg, C. T.; Mishra, S. R.; Dimmery, D.; Tian, X. C.; Godley, A.; Kim, J. J.; Ling, J.; Petti, R.; Wu, Q.] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA, Email: sanjib@sc.edu |
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WOS:000299756800006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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886 |
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