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NEXT Collaboration (Simon, A. et al); Carcel, S.; Carrion, J.V.; Diaz, J.; Felkai, R.; Lopez-March, N.; Martin-Albo, J.; Martinez, A.; Martinez-Vara, M.; Muñoz Vidal, J.; Novella, P.; Palmeiro, B.; Querol, M.; Renner, J.; Romo-Luque, C.; Sorel, M.; Uson, A.; Yahlali, N. |
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Boosting background suppression in the NEXT experiment through Richardson-Lucy deconvolution |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
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146 - 38pp |
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Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments) |
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Next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments aim for half-life sensitivities of similar to 10(27) yr, requiring suppressing backgrounds to < 1 count/tonne/yr. For this, any extra background rejection handle, beyond excellent energy resolution and the use of extremely radiopure materials, is of utmost importance. The NEXT experiment exploits differences in the spatial ionization patterns of double beta decay and single-electron events to discriminate signal from background. While the former display two Bragg peak dense ionization regions at the opposite ends of the track, the latter typically have only one such feature. Thus, comparing the energies at the track extremes provides an additional rejection tool. The unique combination of the topology-based background discrimination and excellent energy resolution (1% FWHM at the Q-value of the decay) is the distinguishing feature of NEXT. Previous studies demonstrated a topological background rejection factor of <similar to> 5 when reconstructing electron-positron pairs in the Tl-208 1.6 MeV double escape peak (with Compton events as background), recorded in the NEXT-White demonstrator at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc, with 72% signal efficiency. This was recently improved through the use of a deep convolutional neural network to yield a background rejection factor of similar to 10 with 65% signal efficiency. Here, we present a new reconstruction method, based on the Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm, which allows reversing the blurring induced by electron diffusion and electroluminescence light production in the NEXT TPC. The new method yields highly refined 3D images of reconstructed events, and, as a result, significantly improves the topological background discrimination. When applied to real-data 1.6 MeV e(-)e(+) pairs, it leads to a background rejection factor of 27 at 57% signal efficiency. |
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[Hauptman, J.] Iowa State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Ames, IA USA, Email: ander@post.bgu.ac.il; |
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WOS:000677621700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4906 |
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Beltran Jimenez, J.; Heisenberg, L.; Olmo, G.J.; Rubiera-Garcia, D. |
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Born-Infeld inspired modifications of gravity |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physics Reports |
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Phys. Rep. |
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727 |
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1-129 |
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Born-Infeld gravity; Astrophysics; Black holes; Cosmology; Early universe; Compact objects; Singularities |
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General Relativity has shown an outstanding observational success in the scales where it has been directly tested. However, modifications have been intensively explored in the regimes where it seems either incomplete or signals its own limit of validity. In particular, the breakdown of unitarity near the Planck scale strongly suggests that General Relativity needs to be modified at high energies and quantum gravity effects are expected to be important. This is related to the existence of spacetime singularities when the solutions of General Relativity are extrapolated to regimes where curvatures are large. In this sense, Born-Infeld inspired modifications of gravity have shown an extraordinary ability to regularise the gravitational dynamics, leading to non-singular cosmologies and regular black hole spacetimes in a very robust manner and without resorting to quantum gravity effects. This has boosted the interest in these theories in applications to stellar structure, compact objects, inflationary scenarios, cosmological singularities, and black hole and wormhole physics, among others. We review the motivations, various formulations, and main results achieved within these theories, including their observational viability, and provide an overview of current open problems and future research opportunities. |
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[Beltran Jimenez, Jose] Univ Autonoma Madrid, CSIC, Inst Fis Teor, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: jose.beltran@uam.es; |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0370-1573 |
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WOS:000425482900001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3497 |
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LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, R. et al); Garcia Martin, L.M.; Henry, L.; Martinez-Vidal, F.; Oyanguren, A.; Remon Alepuz, C.; Ruiz Valls, P.; Ruiz Vidal, J.; Sanchez Mayordomo, C. |
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Bose-Einstein correlations of same-sign charged pions in the forward region in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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025 - 22pp |
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Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Particle correlations and fluctuations; QCD |
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Bose-Einstein correlations of same-sign charged pions, produced in proton-proton collisions at a 7TeV centre-of-mass energy, are studied using a data sample collected by the LHCb experiment. The signature for Bose-Einstein correlations is observed in the form of an enhancement of pairs of like-sign charged pions with small four-momentum difference squared. The charged-particle multiplicity dependence of the Bose-Einstein correlation parameters describing the correlation strength and the size of the emitting source is investigated, determining both the correlation radius and the chaoticity parameter. The measured correlation radius is found to increase as a function of increasing charged-particle multiplicity, while the chaoticity parameter is seen to decrease. |
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[Bediagal, I.; Torres, M. Cruz; De Mirandal, J. M.; Gomes, A.; Maev, O.; Massafferri, A.; Rodriguezl, J. Molina; dos Reis, A. C.; Rodrigues, A. B.; Guimaraes, V. Salustino; Schneider, O.; Lavra, O. Soares; Aoude, R. Tourinho Jadallah] CBPF, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Email: Marcin.Kucharczyk@cern.ch |
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WOS:000417757900003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3428 |
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Blennow, M.; Fernandez-Martinez, E.; Hernandez-Garcia, J.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Marcano, X.; Naredo-Tuero, D. |
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Bounds on lepton non-unitarity and heavy neutrino mixing |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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030 - 41pp |
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Electroweak Precision Physics; Neutrino Mixing; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos |
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We present an updated and improved global fit analysis of current flavour and electroweak precision observables to derive bounds on unitarity deviations of the leptonic mixing matrix and on the mixing of heavy neutrinos with the active flavours. This new analysis is motivated by new and updated experimental results on key observables such as V-ud, the invisible decay width of the Z boson and the W boson mass. It also improves upon previous studies by considering the full correlations among the different observables and explicitly calibrating the test statistic, which may present significant deviations from a & chi;(2) distribution. The results are provided for three different Type-I seesaw scenarios: the minimal scenario with only two additional right-handed neutrinos, the next to minimal one with three extra neutrinos, and the most general one with an arbitrary number of heavy neutrinos that we parametrise via a generic deviation from a unitary leptonic mixing matrix. Additionally, we also analyze the case of generic deviations from unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, not necessarily induced by the presence of additional neutrinos. This last case relaxes some correlations among the parameters and is able to provide a better fit to the data. Nevertheless, inducing only leptonic unitarity deviations avoiding both the correlations implied by the right-handed neutrino extension as well as more strongly constrained operators is challenging and would imply significantly more complex UV completions. |
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[Blennow, Mattias] KTH Royal Inst Technol, AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Sch Engn Sci, Dept Phys, Roslagstullsbacken 21, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Email: emb@kth.se; |
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WOS:001044930400003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5607 |
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Coloma, P.; Esteban, I.; Gonzalez-Garcia, M.C.; Larizgoitia, L.; Monrabal, F.; Palomares-Ruiz, S. |
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Bounds on new physics with data of the Dresden-II reactor experiment and COHERENT |
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2022 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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05 |
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5 |
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037 - 33pp |
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Neutrino Interactions; Non-Standard Neutrino Properties; New Light Particles |
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Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering was first experimentally established five years ago by the COHERENT experiment using neutrinos from the spallation neutron source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The first evidence of observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering with reactor antineutrinos has now been reported by the Dresden-II reactor experiment, using a germanium detector. In this paper, we present constraints on a variety of beyond the Standard Model scenarios using the new Dresden-II data. In particular, we explore the constraints imposed on neutrino nonstandard interactions, neutrino magnetic moments, and several models with light scalar or light vector mediators. We also quantify the impact of their combination with COHERENT (CsI and Ar) data. In doing so, we highlight the synergies between spallation neutron source and nuclear reactor experiments regarding beyond the Standard Model searches, as well as the advantages of combining data obtained with different nuclear targets. We also study the possible signal from beyond the Standard Model scenarios due to elastic scattering off electrons (which would pass selection cuts of the COHERENT CsI and the Dresden-II experiments) and find more stringent constraints in certain parts of the parameter space than those obtained considering coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. |
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[Coloma, Pilar] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor UAM CSIC, Calle Nicolas Cabrera 18-15, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: pilar.coloma@ift.csic.es; |
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WOS:000791925200002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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