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Adey, D. et al; Cervera-Villanueva, A.; Donini, A.; Ghosh, T.; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J.; Hernandez, P.; Izmaylov, A.; Laing, A.; Mena, O.; Sorel, M.; Stamoulis, P. |
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Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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89 |
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7 |
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071301 - 7pp |
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A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light sterile neutrinos that arises in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and from estimates of the effective number of neutrino flavors from fits to cosmological data. In this paper, we show that the nuSTORM facility, with stored muons of 3.8 GeV/c +/- 10%, will be able to carry out a conclusive muon neutrino appearance search for sterile neutrinos and test the LSND and MiniBooNE experimental signals with 10 sigma sensitivity, even assuming conservative estimates for the systematic uncertainties. This experiment would add greatly to our knowledge of the contribution of light sterile neutrinos to the number of effective neutrino flavors from the abundance of primordial helium production and from constraints on neutrino energy density from the cosmic microwave background. The appearance search is complemented by a simultaneous muon neutrino disappearance analysis that will facilitate tests of various sterile neutrino models. |
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[Adey, D.; Brice, S. J.; Bross, A. D.; Cease, H.; Geelhoed, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Liu, A.; Mokhov, N.; Morfin, J.; Neuffer, D.; Palmer, M. A.; Parke, S.; Plunkett, R.; Popovic, M.; Rubinov, P.; Sen, T.; Snopok, P.; Striganov, S.] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA, Email: Ryan.Bayes@glasgow.ac.uk |
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WOS:000334317200002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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T2K Collaboration (Abe, K. et al); Cervera-Villanueva, A.; Escudero, L.; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J.; Izmaylov, A.; Monfregola, L.; Sorel, M.; Stamoulis, P. |
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Measurement of the intrinsic electron neutrino component in the T2K neutrino beam with the ND280 detector |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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89 |
Issue |
9 |
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092003 - 18pp |
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The T2K experiment has reported the first observation of the appearance of electron neutrinos in a muon neutrino beam. The main and irreducible background to the appearance signal comes from the presence in the neutrino beam of a small intrinsic component of electron neutrinos originating from muon and kaon decays. In T2K, this component is expected to represent 1.2% of the total neutrino flux. A measurement of this component using the near detector (ND280), located 280 m from the target, is presented. The charged current interactions of electron neutrinos are selected by combining the particle identification capabilities of both the time projection chambers and electromagnetic calorimeters of ND280. The measured ratio between the observed electron neutrino beam component and the prediction is 1.01 +/- 0.10 providing a direct confirmation of the neutrino fluxes and neutrino cross section modeling used for T2K neutrino oscillation analyses. Electron neutrinos coming from muons and kaons decay are also separately measured, resulting in a ratio with respect to the prediction of 0.68 +/- 0.30 and 1.10 +/- 0.14, respectively. |
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[Kitching, P.] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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WOS:000336102000002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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T2K Collaboration (Abe, K. et al); Cervera-Villanueva, A.; Escudero, L.; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J.; Izmaylov, A.; Monfregola, L.; Sorel, M.; Stamoulis, P. |
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Measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current interaction cross section by observing nuclear deexcitation gamma rays |
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Journal Article |
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2014 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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90 |
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7 |
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072012 - 11pp |
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We report the first measurement of the neutrino-oxygen neutral-current quasielastic (NCQE) cross section gamma It is obtained by observing nuclear deexcitation. rays which follow neutrino-oxygen interactions at the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector. We use T2K data corresponding to 3.01 x 10(20) protons on target. By selecting only events during the T2K beam window and with well-reconstructed vertices in the fiducial volume, the large background rate from natural radioactivity is dramatically reduced. We observe 43 events in the 4-30 MeV reconstructed energy window, compared with an expectation of 51.0, which includes an estimated 16.2 background events. The background is primarily nonquasielastic neutral-current interactions and has only 1.2 events from natural radioactivity. The flux-averaged NCQE cross section we measure is 1.55 x 10(-38) cm(2) with a 68% confidence interval of (1.22, 2.20) x 10(-38) cm(2) at a median neutrino energy of 630 MeV, compared with the theoretical prediction of 2.01 x 10(-38) cm(2). |
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[Kitching, P.] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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WOS:000344033100001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1993 |
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NEXT Collaboration (Gomez-Cadenas, J.J. et al); Alvarez, V.; Carcel, S.; Cervera-Villanueva, A.; Diaz, J.; Ferrario, P.; Gil, A.; Laing, A.; Liubarsky, I.; Lorca, D.; Martin-Albo, J.; Martinez, A.; Monrabal, F.; Muñoz Vidal, J.; Nebot-Guinot, M.; Rodriguez, J.; Serra, L.; Simon, A.; Sorel, M.; Yahlali, N. |
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Present Status and Future Perspectives of the NEXT Experiment |
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2014 |
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Advances in High Energy Physics |
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Adv. High. Energy Phys. |
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2014 |
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907067 - 22pp |
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NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the Xe-136 isotope. It is under construction in the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc in Spain, and it will begin operations in 2015. The NEXT detector concept provides an energy resolutionbetter than 1% FWHM and a topological signal that can be used to reduce the background. Furthermore, the NEXT technology can be extrapolated to a 1 ton-scale experiment. |
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[Gomez Cadenas, J. J.; Alvarez, V.; Carcel, S.; Cervera, A.; Diaz, J.; Ferrario, P.; Gil, A.; Laing, A.; Liubarsky, I.; Lorca, D.; Martin-Albo, J.; Martinez, A.; Monrabal, F.; Monserrate, M.; Munoz Vidal, J.; Nebot-Guinot, M.; Rodriguez, J.; Serra, L.; Simon, A.; Sorel, M.; Yahlali, N.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: paola.ferrario@ific.uv.es |
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
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WOS:000333620700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Fernandes, L.M.P.; Freitas, E.D.C.; Ball, M.; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J.; Monteiro, C.M.B.; Yahlali, N.; Nygren, D.; dos Santos, J.M.F. |
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Primary and secondary scintillation measurements in a Xenon Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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5 |
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P09006 - 15pp |
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Interaction of radiation with matter; Gaseous detectors; Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (vacuum) (photomultipliers, HPDs, others) |
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NEXT is a new experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a 100 kg radio-pure high-pressure gaseous xenon TPC. The detector requires excellent energy resolution, which can be achieved in a Xe TPC with electroluminescence readout. Hamamatsu R8520-06SEL photomultipliers are good candidates for the scintillation readout. The performance of this photomultiplier, used as VUV photosensor in a gas proportional scintillation counter, was investigated. Initial results for the detection of primary and secondary scintillation produced as a result of the interaction of 5.9 keV X-rays in gaseous xenon, at room temperature and at pressures up to 3 bar, are presented. An energy resolution of 8.0% was obtained for secondary scintillation produced by 5.9 keV X-rays. No significant variation of the primary scintillation was observed for different pressures (1, 2 and 3 bar) and for electric fields up to 0.8 V cm(-1) torr(-1) in the drift region, demonstrating negligible recombination luminescence. A primary scintillation yield of 81 +/- 7 photons was obtained for 5.9 keV X-rays, corresponding to a mean energy of 72 +/- 6 eV to produce a primary scintillation photon in xenon. |
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[Fernandes, L. M. P.; Freitas, E. D. C.; Monteiro, C. M. B.; dos Santos, J. M. F.] Univ Coimbra, Dept Phys, Instrumentat Ctr, P-3004516 Coimbra, Portugal, Email: pancho@gian.fis.uc.pt |
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ISI:000283796100003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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