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  1. arXiv:2403.03212  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Performance of a modular ton-scale pixel-readout liquid argon time projection chamber

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. Alrashed, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, T. Alves, H. Amar, P. Amedo, J. Anderson, D. A. Andrade , et al. (1340 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The Module-0 Demonstrator is a single-phase 600 kg liquid argon time projection chamber operated as a prototype for the DUNE liquid argon near detector. Based on the ArgonCube design concept, Module-0 features a novel 80k-channel pixelated charge readout and advanced high-coverage photon detection system. In this paper, we present an analysis of an eight-day data set consisting of 25 million cosmi… ▽ More

    Submitted 5 March, 2024; originally announced March 2024.

    Comments: 47 pages, 41 figures

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-24-0073-LBNF

  2. arXiv:2402.19281  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    First simultaneous measurement of differential muon-neutrino charged-current cross sections on argon for final states with and without protons using MicroBooNE data

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, M. B. Brunetti, L. Camilleri , et al. (163 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We report the first double-differential neutrino-argon cross section measurement made simultaneously for final states with and without protons for the inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interaction channel. The proton kinematics of this channel are further explored with a differential cross section measurement as a function of the leading proton's kinetic energy that extends across the detect… ▽ More

    Submitted 29 February, 2024; originally announced February 2024.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-24-0045

  3. arXiv:2402.19216  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    Inclusive cross section measurements in final states with and without protons for charged-current $ν_μ$-Ar scattering in MicroBooNE

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, M. B. Brunetti, L. Camilleri , et al. (164 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: A detailed understanding of inclusive muon neutrino charged-current interactions on argon is crucial to the study of neutrino oscillations in current and future experiments using liquid argon time projection chambers. To that end, we report a comprehensive set of differential cross section measurements for this channel that simultaneously probe the leptonic and hadronic systems by dividing the cha… ▽ More

    Submitted 29 February, 2024; originally announced February 2024.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-24-0044

  4. arXiv:2402.01568  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det

    Doping Liquid Argon with Xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: Effects on Scintillation Light

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. Alrashed, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, H. Amar Es-sghir, P. Amedo, J. Anderson, D. A. Andrade, C. Andreopoulos , et al. (1300 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation light. In this paper, we present the results of the first doping test ever performed in a kiloton-scale LArTPC. From February to May 2020, we carried out this special run in the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype (ProtoDUN… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 February, 2024; v1 submitted 2 February, 2024; originally announced February 2024.

    Comments: 35 pages, 20 figures

    Report number: CERN-EP-2024-024; FERMILAB-PUB-23-0819-LBNF

  5. arXiv:2312.13945  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    First search for dark-trident processes using the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, M. B. Brunetti, L. Camilleri , et al. (163 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present a first search for dark-trident scattering in a neutrino beam using a data set corresponding to $7.2 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target taken with the MicroBooNE detector at Fermilab. Proton interactions in the neutrino target at the Main Injector produce $π^0$ and $η$ mesons, which could decay into dark-matter (DM) particles mediated via a dark photon $A^\prime$. A convolutional neural… ▽ More

    Submitted 21 December, 2023; originally announced December 2023.

  6. arXiv:2312.03130  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    The DUNE Far Detector Vertical Drift Technology, Technical Design Report

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. Alrashed, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, H. Amar, P. Amedo, J. Anderson, D. A. Andrade, C. Andreopoulos , et al. (1304 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: DUNE is an international experiment dedicated to addressing some of the questions at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics, including the mystifying preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early universe. The dual-site experiment will employ an intense neutrino beam focused on a near and a far detector as it aims to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and to make high-precisi… ▽ More

    Submitted 5 December, 2023; originally announced December 2023.

    Comments: 425 pages; 281 figures Central editing team: A. Heavey, S. Kettell, A. Marchionni, S. Palestini, S. Rajogopalan, R. J. Wilson

    Report number: Fermilab Report no: TM-2813-LBNF

  7. arXiv:2311.10829  [pdf, other

    hep-ph hep-ex

    New $μ$ Forces From $ν_μ$ Sources

    Authors: Cari Cesarotti, Yonatan Kahn, Gordan Krnjaic, Duncan Rocha, Joshua Spitz

    Abstract: Accelerator-based experiments reliant on charged pion and kaon decays to produce muon-neutrino beams also deliver an associated powerful flux of muons. Therefore, these experiments can additionally be sensitive to light new particles that preferentially couple to muons and decay to visible final states on macroscopic length scales. Such particles are produced through rare 3-body meson decays in th… ▽ More

    Submitted 17 November, 2023; originally announced November 2023.

    Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

  8. arXiv:2310.07660  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Search for heavy neutral leptons in electron-positron and neutral-pion final states with the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, M. B. Brunetti, L. Camilleri , et al. (163 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present the first search for heavy neutral leptons (HNL) decaying into $νe^+e^-$ or $νπ^0$ final states in a liquid-argon time projection chamber using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector. The data were recorded synchronously with the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab's Main Injector corresponding to a total exposure of $7.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. We set upper limits at the… ▽ More

    Submitted 12 January, 2024; v1 submitted 11 October, 2023; originally announced October 2023.

    Comments: Version as accepted by Physical Review Letters, some presentational changes and updated references, no changes to results

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-23-574-ND

  9. arXiv:2309.13435  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph

    Physics Potential of a Few Kiloton Scale Neutrino Detector at a Deep Underground Lab in Korea

    Authors: Seon-Hee Seo, Jose Alonso, Pouya Bakhti, Janet Conrad, Steve Dye, Doojin Kim, Jost Migenda, Marco Pallavicini, Jong-Chul Park, Meshkat Rajaee, Mike Shaevitz, Seodong Shin, Joshua Spitz, Daniel Winklehner, Slawomir Wronka, Michael Wurm, Minfang Yeh

    Abstract: The demand for underground labs for neutrino and rare event search experiments has been increasing over the last few decades. Yemilab, constructed in October 2022, is the first deep ($\sim$1~km) underground lab dedicated to science in Korea, where a large cylindrical cavern (D: 20~m, H: 20~m) was excavated in addition to the main caverns and halls. The large cavern could be utilized for a low back… ▽ More

    Submitted 23 September, 2023; originally announced September 2023.

    Comments: 63 pages, 36 figures, 8 tables

  10. arXiv:2309.01887  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    The acrylic vessel for JSNS$^{2}$-II neutrino target

    Authors: C. D. Shin, S. Ajimura, M. K. Cheoun, J. H. Choi, J. Y. Choi, T. Dodo, J. Goh, K. Haga, M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, T. Hiraiwa, W. Hwang, T. Iida, H. I. Jang, J. S. Jang, H. Jeon, S. Jeon, K. K. Joo, D. E. Jung, S. K. Kang, Y. Kasugai, T. Kawasaki, E. J. Kim, J. Y. Kim, S. B. Kim , et al. (35 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The JSNS$^{2}$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment designed for the search for sterile neutrinos. The experiment is currently at the stage of the second phase named JSNS$^{2}$-II with two detectors at near and far locations from the neutrino source. One of the key components of the experiment is an acrylic vessel, that is used for the target volume… ▽ More

    Submitted 11 December, 2023; v1 submitted 4 September, 2023; originally announced September 2023.

    Journal ref: 2023 JINST 18 T12001

  11. arXiv:2308.03924  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph

    First demonstration of a liquid argon time projection chamber based search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transitions and annihilation in $^{40}$Ar using the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, Y. Cao , et al. (164 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present a novel methodology to search for intranuclear neutron-antineutron transition ($n\rightarrow\bar{n}$) followed by $\bar{n}$-nucleon annihilation within an $^{40}$Ar nucleus, using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector. A discovery of $n\rightarrow\bar{n}$ transition or a new best limit on the lifetime of this process would either constitute physics beyond… ▽ More

    Submitted 27 March, 2024; v1 submitted 7 August, 2023; originally announced August 2023.

    Comments: 22 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-23-410-ND

  12. arXiv:2308.02722  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Study on the accidental background of the JSNS$^2$ experiment

    Authors: D. H. Lee, S. Ajimura, M. K. Cheoun, J. H. Choi, J. Y. Choi, T. Dodo, J. Goh, K. Haga, M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, T. Hiraiwa, W. Hwang, H. I. Jang, J. S. Jang, H. Jeon, S. Jeon, K. K. Joo, D. E. Jung, S. K. Kang, Y. Kasugai, T. Kawasaki, E. J. Kim, J. Y. Kim, S. B. Kim, W. Kim , et al. (33 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: JSNS$^2$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment which searches for sterile neutrinos via the observation of $\barν_μ \to \barν_{e}$ appearance oscillations using muon decay-at-rest neutrinos. The data taking of JSNS$^2$ have been performed from 2021. In this manuscript, a study of the accidental background is presented. The rate of the accidental back… ▽ More

    Submitted 4 August, 2023; originally announced August 2023.

    Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2111.07482

  13. arXiv:2307.06413  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Measurement of triple-differential inclusive muon-neutrino charged-current cross section on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE Collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, Y. Cao , et al. (165 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We report the first measurement of the differential cross section $d^{2}σ(E_ν)/ d\cos(θ_μ) dP_μ$ for inclusive muon-neutrino charged-current scattering on argon. This measurement utilizes data from 6.4$\times10^{20}$ protons on target of exposure collected using the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber located along the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam with a mean neutrino energy of appro… ▽ More

    Submitted 10 December, 2023; v1 submitted 12 July, 2023; originally announced July 2023.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-23-368-ND

  14. arXiv:2307.03102  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Measurement of ambient radon progeny decay rates and energy spectra in liquid argon using the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, D. Barrow, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, Y. Cao , et al. (166 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We report measurements of radon progeny in liquid argon within the MicroBooNE time projection chamber (LArTPC). The presence of specific radon daughters in MicroBooNE's 85 metric tons of active liquid argon bulk is probed with newly developed charge-based low-energy reconstruction tools and analysis techniques to detect correlated $^{214}$Bi-$^{214}$Po radioactive decays. Special datasets taken du… ▽ More

    Submitted 22 March, 2024; v1 submitted 6 July, 2023; originally announced July 2023.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-23-352-ND

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 109, 052007 (2024)

  15. arXiv:2305.16249  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    First measurement of $η$ production in neutrino interactions on argon with MicroBooNE

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, Y. Cao , et al. (164 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present a measurement of $η$ production from neutrino interactions on argon with the MicroBooNE detector. The modeling of resonant neutrino interactions on argon is a critical aspect of the neutrino oscillation physics program being carried out by the DUNE and Short Baseline Neutrino programs. $η$ production in neutrino interactions provides a powerful new probe of resonant interactions, comple… ▽ More

    Submitted 25 May, 2023; v1 submitted 25 May, 2023; originally announced May 2023.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-23-249-ND

  16. arXiv:2304.02076  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    First demonstration of $\mathcal{O}(1\,\text{ns})$ timing resolution in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, O. Alterkait, D. Andrade Aldana, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, Y. Cao, D. Caratelli , et al. (163 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: MicroBooNE is a neutrino experiment located in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at Fermilab, which collected data from 2015 to 2021. MicroBooNE's liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) is accompanied by a photon detection system consisting of 32 photomultiplier tubes used to measure the argon scintillation light and determine the timing of neutrino interactions. Analysis techniques combi… ▽ More

    Submitted 29 August, 2023; v1 submitted 4 April, 2023; originally announced April 2023.

  17. arXiv:2303.17007  [pdf

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-th

    Impact of cross-section uncertainties on supernova neutrino spectral parameter fitting in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. Alrashed, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, P. Amedo, J. Anderson, D. A. Andrade , et al. (1294 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: A primary goal of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is to measure the $\mathcal{O}(10)$ MeV neutrinos produced by a Galactic core-collapse supernova if one should occur during the lifetime of the experiment. The liquid-argon-based detectors planned for DUNE are expected to be uniquely sensitive to the $ν_e$ component of the supernova flux, enabling a wide variety of physics… ▽ More

    Submitted 7 July, 2023; v1 submitted 29 March, 2023; originally announced March 2023.

    Comments: 25 pages, 21 figures

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-23-132-CSAID-LBNF-ND-T

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 107, 112012 (2023)

  18. arXiv:2301.07118  [pdf, other

    astro-ph.IM astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE hep-ex hep-ph

    Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter. A Whitepaper

    Authors: Sebastian Baum, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Javier F. Acevedo, Gabriela R. Araujo, Yoshihiro Asahara, Frank Avignone, Levente Balogh, Laura Baudis, Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante, Pieter Alexander Breur, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Francesco Capozzi, Juan I. Collar, Reza Ebadi, Thomas Edwards, Klaus Eitel, Alexey Elykov, Rodney C. Ewing, Katherine Freese, Audrey Fung, Claudio Galelli, Ulrich A. Glasmacher, Arianna Gleason , et al. (44 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Minerals are solid state nuclear track detectors - nuclear recoils in a mineral leave latent damage to the crystal structure. Depending on the mineral and its temperature, the damage features are retained in the material from minutes (in low-melting point materials such as salts at a few hundred degrees C) to timescales much larger than the 4.5 Gyr-age of the Solar System (in refractory materials… ▽ More

    Submitted 16 May, 2023; v1 submitted 17 January, 2023; originally announced January 2023.

    Comments: 115 pages, many pictures of tracks. Please see the source file for higher resolution versions of some plots. v2: matches the published version

    Journal ref: Phys.Dark Univ. 41 (2023) 101245

  19. arXiv:2212.09807  [pdf, other

    physics.comp-ph physics.ins-det

    Highly-parallelized simulation of a pixelated LArTPC on a GPU

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. Alrashed, C. Alt, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, P. Amedo, J. Anderson , et al. (1282 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The rapid development of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is allowing the implementation of highly-parallelized Monte Carlo simulation chains for particle physics experiments. This technique is particularly suitable for the simulation of a pixelated charge readout for time projection chambers, given the large number of channels that this technology employs. Here we pr… ▽ More

    Submitted 28 February, 2023; v1 submitted 19 December, 2022; originally announced December 2022.

    Comments: 26 pages, 15 figures

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-926-LBNF

  20. arXiv:2212.07888  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    First measurement of quasi-elastic $Λ$ baryon production in muon anti-neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, F. Cavanna , et al. (161 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed $Λ$ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the Main Injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to $2.2 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target of neutrino mode running and $4.9 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target of anti-… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 June, 2023; v1 submitted 15 December, 2022; originally announced December 2022.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-925-ND

  21. arXiv:2211.08641  [pdf, other

    hep-ex astro-ph.CO astro-ph.SR hep-ph nucl-ex

    Snowmass Neutrino Frontier Report

    Authors: Patrick Huber, Kate Scholberg, Elizabeth Worcester, Jonathan Asaadi, A. Baha Balantekin, Nathaniel Bowden, Pilar Coloma, Peter B. Denton, André de Gouvêa, Laura Fields, Megan Friend, Steven Gardiner, Carlo Giunti, Julieta Gruszko, Benjamin J. P. Jones, Georgia Karagiorgi, Lisa Kaufman, Joshua R. Klein, Lisa W. Koerner, Yusuke Koshio, Jonathan M. Link, Bryce R. Littlejohn, Ana A. Machado, Pedro A. N. Machado, Kendall Mahn , et al. (34 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This report summarizes the current status of neutrino physics and the broad and exciting future prospects identified for the Neutrino Frontier as part of the 2021 Snowmass Process.

    Submitted 8 December, 2022; v1 submitted 15 November, 2022; originally announced November 2022.

    Comments: 49 pages, contribution to: 2021 Snowmass Summer Study. Minor updates

  22. arXiv:2211.03734  [pdf, other

    hep-ex nucl-ex

    First Measurement of Differential Cross Sections for Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions on Argon with a Two-proton Final State in the MicroBooNE Detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas , et al. (161 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present the first measurement of differential cross sections for charged-current muon neutrino interactions on argon with one muon, two protons, and no pions in the final state. Such interactions leave the target nucleus in a two-particle two-hole state; these states are of great interest, but currently there is limited information about their production in neutrino-nucleus interactions. Detail… ▽ More

    Submitted 3 August, 2023; v1 submitted 7 November, 2022; originally announced November 2022.

    Comments: Resubmitted to PRL in response to reviewer comments

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-836-ND

  23. arXiv:2211.01166  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Identification and reconstruction of low-energy electrons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. Alrashed, C. Alt, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, P. Amedo, J. Anderson , et al. (1235 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Measurements of electrons from $ν_e$ interactions are crucial for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) neutrino oscillation program, as well as searches for physics beyond the standard model, supernova neutrino detection, and solar neutrino measurements. This article describes the selection and reconstruction of low-energy (Michel) electrons in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector. ProtoDUNE-SP is… ▽ More

    Submitted 31 May, 2023; v1 submitted 2 November, 2022; originally announced November 2022.

    Comments: 19 pages, 10 figures

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-784, CERN-EP-DRAFT-MISC-2022-008

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 107, 092012 (2023)

  24. arXiv:2211.00026  [pdf, other

    hep-ph hep-ex nucl-th

    The Width of a Beta-decay-induced Antineutrino Wavepacket

    Authors: B. J. P. Jones, E. Marzec, J. Spitz

    Abstract: The time evolution of a neutrino is dependent on its initial properties at creation including flavor, energy, and wavepacket size. There exists no solid theoretical prediction for the latter property in the context of nuclear beta decay, despite the importance of this process for the past, present, and future of neutrino experimentation. In this paper, we provide a quantitative prediction for the… ▽ More

    Submitted 10 January, 2023; v1 submitted 31 October, 2022; originally announced November 2022.

    Comments: v2: Update to journal accepted version

  25. First constraints on light sterile neutrino oscillations from combined appearance and disappearance searches with the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, D. Andrade Aldana, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas , et al. (162 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present a search for eV-scale sterile neutrino oscillations in the MicroBooNE liquid argon detector, simultaneously considering all possible appearance and disappearance effects within the $3+1$ active-to-sterile neutrino oscillation framework. We analyze the neutrino candidate events for the recent measurements of charged-current $ν_e$ and $ν_μ$ interactions in the MicroBooNE detector, using d… ▽ More

    Submitted 6 December, 2022; v1 submitted 18 October, 2022; originally announced October 2022.

    Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures; supplemental: 6 pages, 8 figures

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-750-ND

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 011801 (2023)

  26. arXiv:2209.07480  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Report of the Topical Group on Artificial Neutrino Sources for Snowmass 2021

    Authors: L. Fields, A. D. Marino, J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux, J. Spitz

    Abstract: The NF09 topical group was charged with soliciting input to Snowmass on the topic of artificial neutrino sources. In this report, we attempt to catalogue all new or upgraded artificial neutrino sources that are being considered by the global neutrino physics community over the next decade. This report also highlights projects that can improve our knowledge of the fluxes from these sources, which i… ▽ More

    Submitted 15 September, 2022; originally announced September 2022.

  27. Neutrino Decoherence and the Mass Hierarchy in the JUNO Experiment

    Authors: Eric Marzec, Joshua Spitz

    Abstract: The finite size of a neutrino wavepacket at creation can affect its oscillation probability. Here, we consider the electron antineutrino wavepacket and decoherence in the context of the nuclear reactor based experiment JUNO. Given JUNO's high expected statistics [$\sim$100k IBD events ($\barν_e p \rightarrow e^+ n$)], long baseline ($\sim$53\,km), and excellent energy resolution [$\sim$… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 August, 2022; originally announced August 2022.

  28. arXiv:2208.02348  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    Differential cross section measurement of charged current $ν_{e}$ interactions without final-state pions in MicroBooNE

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas , et al. (161 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: In this letter we present the first measurements of an exclusive electron neutrino cross section with the MicroBooNE experiment using data from the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab. These measurements are made for a selection of charged-current electron neutrinos without final-state pions. Differential cross sections are extracted in energy and angle with respect to the beam for the electron… ▽ More

    Submitted 3 August, 2022; originally announced August 2022.

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-573-ND-SCD

  29. Axion-Like Particle Production at Beam Dump Experiments with Distinct Nuclear Excitation Lines

    Authors: Loyd Waites, Adrian Thompson, Adriana Bungau, Janet M. Conrad, Bhaskar Dutta, Wei-Chih Huang, Doojin Kim, Michael Shaevitz, Joshua Spitz

    Abstract: Searches for axion-like particles (ALPs) are motivated by the strong CP problem in particle physics and by unexplained dark matter in astrophysics. In this letter, we discuss novel ALP searches using monoenergetic nuclear de-excitation photons from a beam dump, using IsoDAR as an example. We show that IsoDAR can set limits that close a gap in traditional QCD axion searches using the ALP-photon cou… ▽ More

    Submitted 25 May, 2023; v1 submitted 27 July, 2022; originally announced July 2022.

    Comments: 8 pages including references, 4 figures, one table, 8 equations, PRL format

  30. arXiv:2207.08448  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph

    First Constraints on Heavy QCD Axions with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber using the ArgoNeuT Experiment

    Authors: ArgoNeuT Collaboration, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, B. Baller, V. Basque, F. Cavanna, R. T. Co, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. Fleming, P. Green, R. Harnik, K. J. Kelly, S. Kumar, K. Lang, I. Lepetic, Z. Liu, X. Luo, K. F. Lyu, O. Palamara, G. Scanavini, M. Soderberg, J. Spitz, A. M. Szelc, W. Wu, T. Yang

    Abstract: We present the results of a search for heavy QCD axions performed by the ArgoNeuT experiment at Fermilab. We search for heavy axions produced in the NuMI neutrino beam target and absorber decaying into dimuon pairs, which can be identified using the unique capabilities of ArgoNeuT and the MINOS near detector. This decay channel is motivated by a broad class of heavy QCD axion models that address t… ▽ More

    Submitted 24 April, 2023; v1 submitted 18 July, 2022; originally announced July 2022.

    Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures. Version accepted by PRL

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-527-ND-T

  31. Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons and Higgs portal scalars decaying in the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas , et al. (163 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We present a search for long-lived Higgs portal scalars (HPS) and heavy neutral leptons (HNL) decaying in the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber. The measurement is performed using data collected synchronously with the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab's Main Injector with a total exposure corresponding to $7.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. We set upper limits at the $90\%$ confi… ▽ More

    Submitted 6 December, 2022; v1 submitted 8 July, 2022; originally announced July 2022.

    Comments: This paper is dedicated to the memory of Salvatore Davide Porzio. This is the journal accepted version with only minor presentational changes compared to preprint

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-507

    Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 106, 092006 (2022)

  32. arXiv:2206.14521  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Reconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, B. Ali-Mohammadzadeh, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. AlRashed, C. Alt, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, P. Amedo , et al. (1203 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries provide pattern-recognition logic essential to the reconstruction of particle interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. Pandora is the primary event reconstruction software used at ProtoDUNE-SP, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment far detector. ProtoDUNE-SP, located at CERN, is exposed to a char… ▽ More

    Submitted 17 July, 2023; v1 submitted 29 June, 2022; originally announced June 2022.

    Comments: 39 pages, 20 figures. Accepted version. Published version available in Eur. Phys. J. C 83, 618 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11733-2

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-488-AD-ESH-LBNF-ND-SCD, CERN-EP-DRAFT-MISC-2022-007

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C 83, 618 (2023)

  33. arXiv:2205.07943  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    Measurement of neutral current single $π^0$ production on argon with the MicroBooNE detector

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas , et al. (170 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: We report the first measurement of $π^0$ production in neutral current (NC) interactions on argon with average neutrino energy of $\lesssim1$~GeV. We use data from the MicroBooNE detector's 85-tonne active volume liquid argon time projection chamber situated in Fermilab's Booster Neutrino Beam and exposed to $5.89\times10^{20}$ protons on target for this measurement. Measurements of NC $π^0$ event… ▽ More

    Submitted 8 December, 2022; v1 submitted 16 May, 2022; originally announced May 2022.

    Comments: 16 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-412-ND-SCD

  34. arXiv:2203.17053  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Separation of track- and shower-like energy deposits in ProtoDUNE-SP using a convolutional neural network

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, B. Ali-Mohammadzadeh, T. Alion, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. AlRashed, C. Alt, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, P. Amedo, J. Anderson , et al. (1204 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Liquid argon time projection chamber detector technology provides high spatial and calorimetric resolutions on the charged particles traversing liquid argon. As a result, the technology has been used in a number of recent neutrino experiments, and is the technology of choice for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). In order to perform high precision measurements of neutrinos in the det… ▽ More

    Submitted 30 June, 2022; v1 submitted 31 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: 31 pages, 15 figures

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-240-AD-ESH-LBNF-ND-SCD, CERN-EP-2022-077

    Journal ref: Eur.Phys.J.C 82 (2022) 10, 903

  35. arXiv:2203.16134  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det

    Scintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, B. Ali-Mohammadzadeh, T. Alion, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. AlRashed, C. Alt, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, P. Amedo, J. Anderson , et al. (1202 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: DUNE is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE Dual Phase (DP) is a 6x6x6m3 liquid argon time-projection-chamber (LArTPC) that recorded cosmic-muon data at the CERN Neutrino Platform in 2019-2020 as a prototype of the DUNE Far Detector. Charged particles propagating through the LArTPC produce ionization and… ▽ More

    Submitted 3 June, 2022; v1 submitted 30 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: 31 pages, 29 figures

    Report number: CERN-EP-DRAFT-MISC-2022-003; FERMILAB-PUB-22-242-LBNF

  36. Snowmass White Paper: Beyond the Standard Model effects on Neutrino Flavor

    Authors: C. A. Argüelles, G. Barenboim, M. Bustamante, P. Coloma, P. B. Denton, I. Esteban, Y. Farzan, E. Fernández Martínez, D. V. Forero, A. M. Gago, T. Katori, R. Lehnert, M. Ross-Lonergan, A. M. Suliga, Z. Tabrizi, L. Anchordoqui, K. Chakraborty, J. Conrad, A. Das, C. S. Fong, B. R. Littlejohn, M. Maltoni, D. Parno, J. Spitz, J. Tang , et al. (1 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Neutrinos are one of the most promising messengers for signals of new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). On the theoretical side, their elusive nature, combined with their unknown mass mechanism, seems to indicate that the neutrino sector is indeed opening a window to new physics. On the experimental side, several long-standing anomalies have been reported in the past decades, providing a st… ▽ More

    Submitted 14 July, 2022; v1 submitted 21 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: 54 pages plus references. Contact authors: P. Coloma, D. V. Forero and T. Katori. Comments welcome. Contribution to Snowmass 2021. v2 incorporates community feedback

  37. arXiv:2203.10147  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    Observation of Radon Mitigation in MicroBooNE by a Liquid Argon Filtration System

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bhattacharya, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas , et al. (168 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) maintains a high level of liquid argon purity through the use of a filtration system that removes electronegative contaminants in continuously-circulated liquid, recondensed boil off, and externally supplied argon gas. We use the MicroBooNE LArTPC to reconstruct MeV-scale radiological decays. Using this technique we measure the liquid ar… ▽ More

    Submitted 26 October, 2022; v1 submitted 18 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, accepted by the Journal of Instrumentation

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-22-203-ND

    Journal ref: JINST 17 P11022 (2022)

  38. arXiv:2203.08804  [pdf, ps, other

    hep-ex physics.acc-ph

    Snowmass'21 Whitepaper -- IsoDAR Overview

    Authors: J. R. Alonso, J. M. Conrad, Y. D. Kim, S. H. Seo, M. H. Shaevitz, J. Spitz, D. Winklehner

    Abstract: IsoDAR@Yemilab is a unique facility for underground neutrino physics. The system comprises an accelerator-driven $\barν_e$ source located next to the Yemilab LSC 2.3 kt detector. Because this facility is first-of-its-kind, it opens new approaches to Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics searches. The program is most well-known for its capability to perform searches for new oscillation signatures at… ▽ More

    Submitted 19 March, 2022; v1 submitted 15 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: contribution to Snowmass 2021

  39. arXiv:2203.08102  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    SBN-BD: $\mathcal{O}$(10 GeV) Proton Beam Dump at Fermilab's PIP-II Linac

    Authors: Matt Toups, R. G. Van de Water, Brian Batell, S. J. Brice, Patrick deNiverville, Jeff Eldred, A. Fava, Kevin J. Kelly, Tom Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, Pedro A. N. Machado, Bill Pellico, Josh Spitz, Rex Tayloe, R. T. Thornton, Z. Pavlovic, Jaehoon Yu, J. Zettlemoyer

    Abstract: Proton beam dumps are prolific sources of mesons enabling a powerful technique to search for vector mediator coupling of dark matter to neutral pion and higher mass meson decays. By the end of the decade the PIP-II linac will be delivering up to 1 MW of proton power to the FNAL campus. This includes a significant increase of power to the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) which delivers 8 GeV protons… ▽ More

    Submitted 23 September, 2022; v1 submitted 15 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: Contribution to Snowmass 2021

    Report number: FERMILAB-FN-1157, LA-UR-22-22524

  40. arXiv:2203.07323  [pdf, other

    hep-ex astro-ph.CO hep-ph physics.ins-det

    White Paper on Light Sterile Neutrino Searches and Related Phenomenology

    Authors: M. A. Acero, C. A. Argüelles, M. Hostert, D. Kalra, G. Karagiorgi, K. J. Kelly, B. Littlejohn, P. Machado, W. Pettus, M. Toups, M. Ross-Lonergan, A. Sousa, P. T. Surukuchi, Y. Y. Y. Wong, W. Abdallah, A. M. Abdullahi, R. Akutsu, L. Alvarez-Ruso, D. S. M. Alves, A. Aurisano, A. B. Balantekin, J. M. Berryman, T. Bertólez-Martínez, J. Brunner, M. Blennow , et al. (147 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This white paper provides a comprehensive review of our present understanding of experimental neutrino anomalies that remain unresolved, charting the progress achieved over the last decade at the experimental and phenomenological level, and sets the stage for future programmatic prospects in addressing those anomalies. It is purposed to serve as a guiding and motivational "encyclopedic" reference,… ▽ More

    Submitted 17 May, 2023; v1 submitted 14 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: Contribution to Snowmass 2021 by the NF02 Topical Group (Understanding Experimental Neutrino Anomalies). Submitted to J. Phys. G as a Major Report

  41. arXiv:2203.06281  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    A Gaseous Argon-Based Near Detector to Enhance the Physics Capabilities of DUNE

    Authors: A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, B. Ali-Mohammadzadeh, T. Alion, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. AlRashed, C. Alt, A. Alton, R. Alvarez, P. Amedo , et al. (1220 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This document presents the concept and physics case for a magnetized gaseous argon-based detector system (ND-GAr) for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Near Detector. This detector system is required in order for DUNE to reach its full physics potential in the measurement of CP violation and in delivering precision measurements of oscillation parameters. In addition to its critical r… ▽ More

    Submitted 11 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: Contribution to Snowmass 2021

  42. arXiv:2203.06100  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    Snowmass Neutrino Frontier: DUNE Physics Summary

    Authors: DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. R. Adames, G. Adamov, M. Adamowski, D. Adams, M. Adinolfi, C. Adriano, A. Aduszkiewicz, J. Aguilar, Z. Ahmad, J. Ahmed, B. Aimard, F. Akbar, B. Ali-Mohammadzadeh, T. Alion, K. Allison, S. Alonso Monsalve, M. AlRashed, C. Alt, A. Alton, R. Alvarez , et al. (1221 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with a primary physics goal of observing neutrino and antineutrino oscillation patterns to precisely measure the parameters governing long-baseline neutrino oscillation in a single experiment, and to test the three-flavor paradigm. DUNE's design has been developed by a large, internat… ▽ More

    Submitted 11 March, 2022; originally announced March 2022.

    Comments: Contribution to Snowmass 2021

  43. The Double Chooz antineutrino detectors

    Authors: Double Chooz Collaboration, H. de Kerret, Y. Abe, C. Aberle, T. Abrahão, J. M. Ahijado, T. Akiri, J. M. Alarcón, J. Alba, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos, S. Appel, F. Ardellier, I. Barabanov, J. C. Barriere, E. Baussan, A. Baxter, I. Bekman, M. Bergevin, A. Bernstein, W. Bertoli, T. J. C. Bezerra, L. Bezrukov, C. Blanco, N. Bleurvacq , et al. (226 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This article describes the setup and performance of the near and far detectors in the Double Chooz experiment. The electron antineutrinos of the Chooz nuclear power plant were measured in two identically designed detectors with different average baselines of about 400 m and 1050 m from the two reactor cores. Over many years of data taking the neutrino signals were extracted from interactions in th… ▽ More

    Submitted 13 September, 2022; v1 submitted 31 January, 2022; originally announced January 2022.

    Comments: 49 pages, 29 figures

    Journal ref: Eur.Phys.J. C (2022) 82:804

  44. arXiv:2201.10040  [pdf, other

    physics.ins-det hep-ex

    IsoDAR@Yemilab: A Report on the Technology, Capabilities, and Deployment

    Authors: Jose R. Alonso, Daniel Winklehner, Joshua Spitz, Janet M. Conrad, Seon-Hee Seo, Yeongduk Kim, Michael Shaevitz, Adriana Bungau, Roger Barlow, Luciano Calabretta, Andreas Adelmann, Daniel Mishins, Larry Bartoszek, Loyd H. Waites, Ki-Mun Bang, Kang-Soon Park, Erik A. Voirin

    Abstract: IsoDAR@Yemilab is a novel isotope-decay-at-rest experiment that has preliminary approval to run at the Yemi underground laboratory (Yemilab) in Jeongseon-gun, South Korea. In this technical report, we describe in detail the considerations for installing this compact particle accelerator and neutrino target system at the Yemilab underground facility. Specifically, we describe the caverns being prep… ▽ More

    Submitted 11 July, 2022; v1 submitted 24 January, 2022; originally announced January 2022.

    Comments: Under review at JINST. Condensed article version of full Conceptual Design Report (arXiv:2110.10635)

  45. arXiv:2201.05705  [pdf, other

    hep-ex

    Cosmic ray muon clustering for the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using sMask-RCNN

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, J. Barrow, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas , et al. (166 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: In this article, we describe a modified implementation of Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Networks (Mask-RCNN) for cosmic ray muon clustering in a liquid argon TPC and applied to MicroBooNE neutrino data. Our implementation of this network, called sMask-RCNN, uses sparse submanifold convolutions to increase processing speed on sparse datasets, and is compared to the original dense version i… ▽ More

    Submitted 23 May, 2022; v1 submitted 14 January, 2022; originally announced January 2022.

    Comments: 30 pages, 21 figures

  46. arXiv:2201.01724  [pdf, other

    hep-ex hep-ph nucl-ex

    MiniBooNE and MicroBooNE Combined Fit to a 3+1 Sterile Neutrino Scenario

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, A. Diaz, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, G. T. Garvey, S. Gollapinni, A. Hourlier, E. -C. Huang, N. W. Kamp, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, K. Lin, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal-Martinez, C. D. Moore, R. H. Nelson, J. Nowak , et al. (14 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: This letter presents the results from the MiniBooNE experiment within a full "3+1" scenario where one sterile neutrino is introduced to the three-active-neutrino picture. In addition to electron-neutrino appearance at short-baselines, this scenario also allows for disappearance of the muon-neutrino and electron-neutrino fluxes in the Booster Neutrino Beam, which is shared by the MicroBooNE experim… ▽ More

    Submitted 9 September, 2022; v1 submitted 5 January, 2022; originally announced January 2022.

    Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 table

  47. Neutrino Physics Opportunities with the IsoDAR Source at Yemilab

    Authors: J. Alonso, C. A. Argüelles, A. Bungau, J. M. Conrad, B. Dutta, Y. D. Kim, E. Marzec, D. Mishins, S. H. Seo, M. Shaevitz, J. Spitz, A. Thompson, L. Waites, D. Winklehner

    Abstract: IsoDAR seeks to place a high-power-cyclotron and target combination, as an intense source of $\barν_e$ at the level of $\sim 10^{23}$/year, close to a kiloton-scale neutrino detector in order to gain sensitivity to very short-baseline neutrino oscillations ($\barν_e \rightarrow \barν_{e}$) and perform precision tests of the weak interaction, among other physics opportunities. Recently, IsoDAR has… ▽ More

    Submitted 10 February, 2022; v1 submitted 17 November, 2021; originally announced November 2021.

    Comments: 17 pages, 16 figures; this version presents a number of new physics topics and studies

  48. Characterization of the correlated background for a sterile neutrino search using the first dataset of the JSNS$^2$ experiment

    Authors: Y. Hino, S. Ajimura, M. K. Cheoun, J. H. Choi, T. Dodo, H. Furuta, J. Goh, K. Haga, M. Harada, S. Hasegawa, T. Hiraiwa, W. Hwang, H. I. Jang, J. S. Jang, H. Jeon, S. Jeon, K. K. Joo, J. R. Jordan, D. E. Jung, S. K. Kang, Y. Kasugai, T. Kawasaki, E. J. Kim, J. Y. Kim, S. B. Kim , et al. (40 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: JSNS$^2$ (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment that is searching for sterile neutrinos via the observation of $\barν_μ \to \barν_{e}$ appearance oscillations using muon decay-at-rest neutrinos. Before dedicated data taking in the first-half of 2021, we performed a commissioning run for 10 days in June 2020. Using the data obtained in this commissioni… ▽ More

    Submitted 11 March, 2022; v1 submitted 14 November, 2021; originally announced November 2021.

    Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures

  49. arXiv:2111.03556  [pdf, other

    hep-ex physics.ins-det

    Novel Approach for Evaluating Detector-Related Uncertainties in a LArTPC Using MicroBooNE Data

    Authors: MicroBooNE collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. An, J. Anthony, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, A. Ashkenazi, S. Balasubramanian, B. Baller, C. Barnes, G. Barr, V. Basque, L. Bathe-Peters, O. Benevides Rodrigues, S. Berkman, A. Bhanderi, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, T. Bolton, J. Y. Book, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, I. Caro Terrazas, F. Cavanna , et al. (161 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: Primary challenges for current and future precision neutrino experiments using liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) include understanding detector effects and quantifying the associated systematic uncertainties. This paper presents a novel technique for assessing and propagating LArTPC detector-related systematic uncertainties. The technique makes modifications to simulation waveforms b… ▽ More

    Submitted 16 June, 2022; v1 submitted 5 November, 2021; originally announced November 2021.

    Comments: 14 pages, 12 figures, version accepted by EPJ C

    Report number: FERMILAB-PUB-21-501-ND-SCD

    Journal ref: Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 454 (2022)

  50. arXiv:2110.15055  [pdf, ps, other

    hep-ex nucl-ex

    MiniBooNE Data Releases

    Authors: A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. C. Brown, J. M. Conrad, R. Dharmapalan, A. Diaz, Z. Djurcic, D. A. Finley, R. Ford, G. T. Garvey, S. Gollapinni, A. Hourlier, E. -C. Huang, N. W. Kamp, G. Karagiorgi, T. Katori, T. Kobilarcik, K. Lin, W. C. Louis, C. Mariani, W. Marsh, G. B. Mills, J. Mirabal-Martinez, C. D. Moore, R. H. Nelson, J. Nowak , et al. (16 additional authors not shown)

    Abstract: The MiniBooNE experiment has provided data releases for most publications. Occasionally it is necessary to move data release pages. This document provides a single point of reference that will be updated by the collaboration to point to the present location of the MiniBooNE data releases.

    Submitted 25 October, 2021; originally announced October 2021.

    Comments: 2 pages, 0 figures