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Sorel, M. |
| Title |
Expected performance of an ideal liquid argon neutrino detector with enhanced sensitivity to scintillation light |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
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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no |
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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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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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Journal Article |
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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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Balbinot, R.; Fabbri, A. |
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Amplifying the Hawking Signal in BECs |
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Journal Article |
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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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713574 - 8pp |
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We consider simple models of Bosep-Einstein condensates to study analog pairp-creation effects, namely, the Hawking effect from acoustic black holes and the dynamical Casimir effect in rapidly timep-dependent backgrounds. We also focus on a proposal by Cornell to amplify the Hawking signal in density-density correlators by reducing the atoms' interactions shortly before measurements are made. |
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[Balbinot, Roberto; Fabbri, Alessandro] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis, I-40126 Bologna, Italy, Email: afabbri@ific.uv.es |
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WOS:000335740300001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1787 |
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Boucenna, M.S.; Morisi, S.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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The Low-Scale Approach to Neutrino Masses |
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Journal Article |
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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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831598 - 15pp |
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In this short review we revisit the broad landscape of low-scale SU(3)(C) circle times SU(2)(L) circle times U(1)(Y) models of neutrino mass generation, with view on their phenomenological potential. This includes signatures associated to direct neutrino mass messenger production at the LHC, as well as messenger-induced lepton flavor violation processes. We also briefly comment on the presence of WIMP cold dark matter candidates. |
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[Boucenna, Sofiane M.; Valle, Jose W. F.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular Parque Cient IFIC, AHEP Grp, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: stefano.morisi@gmail.com |
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WOS:000340751800001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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