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KM3NeT Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Calvo Diaz-Aldagalan, D.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Lotze, M.; Olcina, I.; Real, D.; Sanchez Garcia, A.; Tönnis, C.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
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Letter of intent for KM3NeT 2.0 |
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2016 |
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Journal of Physics G |
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J. Phys. G |
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43 |
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8 |
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084001 - 130pp |
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neutrino astronomy; neutrino physics; deep sea neutrino telescope; neutrino mass hierarchy |
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The main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are (i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and (ii) the determination of the mass hierarchy of neutrinos. These objectives are strongly motivated by two recent important discoveries, namely: (1) the high-energy astrophysical neutrino signal reported by IceCube and (2) the sizable contribution of electron neutrinos to the third neutrino mass eigenstate as reported by Daya Bay, Reno and others. To meet these objectives, the KM3NeT Collaboration plans to build a new Research Infrastructure consisting of a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. A phased and distributed implementation is pursued which maximises the access to regional funds, the availability of human resources and the synergistic opportunities for the Earth and sea sciences community. Three suitable deep-sea sites are selected, namely off-shore Toulon (France), Capo Passero (Sicily, Italy) and Pylos (Peloponnese, Greece). The infrastructure will consist of three so-called building blocks. A building block comprises 115 strings, each string comprises 18 optical modules and each optical module comprises 31 photo-multiplier tubes. Each building block thus constitutes a three-dimensional array of photo sensors that can be used to detect the Cherenkov light produced by relativistic particles emerging from neutrino interactions. Two building blocks will be sparsely configured to fully explore the IceCube signal with similar instrumented volume, different methodology, improved resolution and complementary field of view, including the galactic plane. One building block will be densely configured to precisely measure atmospheric neutrino oscillations. |
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[Adrian-Martinez, S.; Ardid, M.; Llorens Alvarez, C. D.; Martinez-Mora, J. A.; Saldana, M.] Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Invest Gest Integrada Zonas Costeras, C Paranimf 1, E-46730 Gandia, Spain, Email: brunner@cppm.in2p3.fr; |
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0954-3899 |
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WOS:000381686700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2773 |
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de Salas, P.F.; Pastor, S. |
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Relic neutrino decoupling with flavour oscillations revisited |
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2016 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
Pages |
051 - 18pp |
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cosmological neutrinos; particle physics – cosmology connection; physics of the; early universe; neutrino properties |
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We study the decoupling process of neutrinos in the early universe in the presence of three-flavour oscillations. The evolution of the neutrino spectra is found by solving the corresponding momentum-dependent kinetic equations for the neutrino density matrix, including for the first time the proper collision integrals for both diagonal and off-diagonal elements. This improved calculation modifies the evolution of the off-diagonal elements of the neutrino density matrix and changes the deviation from equilibrium of the frozen neutrino spectra. However, it does not vary the contribution of neutrinos to the cosmological energy density in the form of radiation, usually expressed in terms of the effective number of neutrinos, N-eff. We find a value of N-eff = 3.045, in agreement with previous theoretical calculations and consistent with the latest analysis of Planck data. This result does not depend on the ordering of neutrino masses. We also consider the effect of non-standard neutrino-electron interactions (NSI), predicted in many theoretical models where neutrinos acquire mass. For two sets of NSI parameters allowed by present data, we find that Neff can be reduced down to 3.040 or enhanced up to 3.059. |
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[de Salas, Pablo F.; Pastor, Sergio] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Parc Cient UV,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: pabrerde@ific.uv.es; |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000381830000052 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2784 |
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Alekhin, S. et al; Hernandez, P. |
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A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Reports on Progress in Physics |
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Rep. Prog. Phys. |
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79 |
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12 |
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124201 - 137pp |
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beyond the standard model physics; intensity frontier experiment; hidden sectors; heavy neutral leptons; dark photons |
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This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (search for hidden particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale, inaccessible to the LHC experiments, and to study tau neutrino physics. The same proton beam setup can be used later to look for decays of tau-leptons with lepton flavour number non-conservation, tau -> 3 μand to search for weakly-interacting sub-GeV dark matter candidates. We discuss the evidence for physics beyond the standard model and describe interactions between new particles and four different portals-scalars, vectors, fermions or axion-like particles. We discuss motivations for different models, manifesting themselves via these interactions, and how they can be probed with the SHiP experiment and present several case studies. The prospects to search for relatively light SUSY and composite particles at SHiP are also discussed. We demonstrate that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the standard model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation. |
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[Alekhin, Sergey] DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany, Email: oleg.ruchayskiy@cern.ch |
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0034-4885 |
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WOS:000387025400001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2852 |
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ATLAS Tile Calorimeter System (Abdallah, J. et al); Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Hernandez Jimenez, Y.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Solans, C.A.; Valero, A.; Valladolid Gallego, E.; Valls Ferrer, J.A. |
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The Laser calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter during the LHC run 1 |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Journal of Instrumentation |
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J. Instrum. |
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11 |
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T10005 - 29pp |
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Detector alignment and calibration methods (lasers, sources, particle-beams); Calorimeters; Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors |
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This article describes the Laser calibration system of the ATLAS hadronic Tile Calorimeter that has been used during the run 1 of the LHC. First, the stability of the system associated readout electronics is studied. It is found to be stable with variations smaller than 0.6 %. Then, the method developed to compute the calibration constants, to correct for the variations of the gain of the calorimeter photomultipliers, is described. These constants were determined with a statistical uncertainty of 0.3 % and a systematic uncertainty of 0.2 % for the central part of the calorimeter and 0.5 % for the end-caps. Finally, the detection and correction of timing mis-configuration of the Tile Calorimeter using the Laser system are also presented. |
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[Harkusha, S.; Kulchitsky, Y.; Kurochkin, Y. A.; Tsiareshka, P. V.] Natl Acad Sci Belarus, BI Stepanov Inst Phys, Minsk, Byelarus, Email: calvet@in2p3.fr |
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1748-0221 |
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WOS:000387876400005 |
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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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2860 |
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Di Bari, P.; Ludl, P.O.; Palomares-Ruiz, S. |
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Unifying leptogenesis, dark matter and high-energy neutrinos with right-handed neutrino mixing via Higgs portal |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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11 |
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11 |
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044 - 41pp |
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dark matter theory; leptogenesis; physics of the early universe; ultra high energy photons and neutrinos |
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We revisit a model in which neutrino masses and mixing are described by a two right-handed (RH) neutrino seesaw scenario, implying a strictly hierarchical light neutrino spectrum. A third decoupled RH neutrino, N-DM with mass M-DM, plays the role of cold dark matter (DM) and is produced by the mixing with a source RH neutrino, Ns with mass M-S, induced by Higgs portal interactions. The same interactions are also responsible for N-DM decays. We discuss in detail the constraints coming from DM abundance and stability conditions showing that in the hierarchical case, for M-DM >> M-S, there is an allowed window on M-DM values necessarily implying a contribution, from DM decays, to the high-energy neutrino flux recently detected by IceCube. We also show how the model can explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe via leptogenesis in the quasi-degenerate limit. In this case, the DM mass should be within the range 300 GeV less than or similar to M-S < M-DM < 10PeV. We discuss the specific properties of this high-energy neutrino flux and show the predicted event spectrum for two exemplary cases. Although DM decays, with a relatively hard spectrum, cannot account for all the IceCube high-energy data, we illustrate how this extra source of high-energy neutrinos could reasonably explain some potential features in the observed spectrum. In this way, this represents a unified scenario for leptogenesis and DM that could be tested during the next years with more high-energy neutrino events. |
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[Di Bari, Pasquale; Ludl, Patrick Otto] Univ Southampton, Phys & Astron, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England, Email: P.Di-Bari@soton.ac.uk; |
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WOS:000397734100044 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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