Publications (32)
EMPHATIC: A proposed experiment to measure hadron scattering and productioncross sections for improved neutrino flux predictions
T. Akaishi, L. Aliaga-Soplin, H. Asano +47
Hadron scattering and production uncertainties are a limiting systematic on accelerator and at-mospheric neutrino flux predictions. New hadron measurements are necessary for neutri…
Study of Silicon Photomultiplier Performance in External Electric Fields
X. L. Sun, T. Tolba, G. F. Cao +149
We report on the performance of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) light sensors operating in electric field strength up to 30 kV/cm and at a temperature of 149K, relative to their per…
A cosmic ray cocoon along the X-ray jet of M87?
M. G. Dainotti, M. Ostrowski, D. Harris +2
Relativistic jets propagating through an ambient medium must produce some observational effects along their side boundaries because of interactions across the large velocity gradie…
A Search for Lorentz Invariance and CPT Violation with the MINOS Far Detector
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +130
We searched for a sidereal modulation in the MINOS far detector neutrino rate. Such a signal would be a consequence of Lorentz and CPT violation as described by the Standard-Model…
Structure Function Subgroup Summary
D. Harris, F. I. Olness, S. Ritz +30
We summarize the studies and discussions of the Structure Function subgroup of the QCD working group of the Snowmass 1996 Workshop: New Directions for High Energy Physics.
Neutrinos
A. de Gouvea, K. Pitts, K. Scholberg +164
This document represents the response of the Intensity Frontier Neutrino Working Group to the Snowmass charge. We summarize the current status of neutrino physics and identify many…
Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS
The MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, C. Andreopoulos +126
Measurements of neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam as observed by the two MINOS detectors are reported. New analys…
Physics at a Neutrino Factory
C. Albright, G. Anderson, V. Barger +63
In response to the growing interest in building a Neutrino Factory to produce high intensity beams of electron- and muon-neutrinos and antineutrinos, in October 1999 the Fermilab D…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF
The Intermediate Neutrino Program
C. Adams, J. R. Alonso, A. M. Ankowski +186
The US neutrino community gathered at the Workshop on the Intermediate Neutrino Program (WINP) at Brookhaven National Laboratory February 4-6, 2015 to explore opportunities in neut…
Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO
nEXO Collaboration, M. Jewell, A. Schubert +142
A new design for the anode of a time projection chamber, consisting of a charge-detecting "tile", is investigated for use in large scale liquid xenon detectors. The tile is produce…
Study of Neutron-Induced Ionization in Helium and Argon Chamber Gases
D. Indurthy, A. R. Erwin, D. Harris +3
Ion chambers used to monitor the secondary hadron and tertiary muon beam in the NuMI neutrino beamline will be exposed to background particles, including low energy neutrons produc…
E1 Working Group Summary: Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders
D. Harris
We are in the middle of a time of exciting discovery, namely that neutrinos have mass and oscillate. In order to take the next steps to understand this potential window onto what w…
Ion Chambers for Monitoring the NuMI Neutrino Beam at FNAL
D. Indurthy, R. Keisler, S. Kopp +15
The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline will deliver an intense muon neutrino beam by focusing a beam of mesons into a long evacuated decay volume. The beam must be stee…
The NuMI Neutrino Beam
P. Adamson, K. Anderson, M. Andrews +187
This paper describes the hardware and operations of the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. It elaborates on the design considerations for the beam as a whole a…
Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double beta decay
nEXO Collaboration, J. B. Albert, G. Anton +143
The next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta () decay in Xe with a target half-life sensit…
First Measurement of and Events in an Off-Axis Horn-Focused Neutrino Beam
P. Adamson, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, C. E. Anderson +92
We report the first observation of off-axis neutrino interactions in the MiniBooNE detector from the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. The MiniBooNE detector is located 745 m from the NuM…
nEXO Pre-Conceptual Design Report
nEXO Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, A. Alamre +171
The projected performance and detector configuration of nEXO are described in this pre-Conceptual Design Report (pCDR). nEXO is a tonne-scale neutrinoless double beta () d…
Physics Potential at FNAL with Stronger Proton Sources
G. Barenboim, A. de Gouvea, T. Dombeck +6
This document is the second in a series of reports on the exciting physics that would be accessible at Fermilab in the event of an upgraded proton source. Where the first report co…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF
DUNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +796
The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described.
The Neutrino Factory and Beta Beam Experiments and Development
C. Albright, V. Barger, J. Beacom +13
The long-term prospects for fully exploring three-flavor mixing in the neutrino sector depend upon an ongoing and increased investment in the appropriate accelerator R&D. Two new c…
The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +824
ProtoDUNE-SP is the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype that is under construction and will be operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) starting in 2018. ProtoDUNE-SP, a cr…
VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO
A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt +140
Future tonne-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the VUV range. In the past years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid al…
Data Intensive High Energy Physics Analysis in a Distributed Cloud
R. J. Sobie, A. Agarwal, M. Anderson +11
We show that distributed Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) compute clouds can be effectively used for the analysis of high energy physics data. We have designed a distributed clou…
First direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance
MINOS collaboration, P. Adamson, C. Andreopoulos +126
This letter reports the first direct observation of muon antineutrino disappearance. The MINOS experiment has taken data with an accelerator beam optimized for muon antineutrino pr…
Segmented Foil SEM Grids at Fermilab
S. Kopp, D. Indurthy, Z. Pavlovich +9
We present recent beam data from a new design of a profile monitor for proton beams at Fermilab. The monitors, consisting of grids of segmented Ti foils 5micrometers thick, are sec…
Deep Neural Networks for Energy and Position Reconstruction in EXO-200
S. Delaquis, M. J. Jewell, I. Ostrovskiy +91
We apply deep neural networks (DNN) to data from the EXO-200 experiment. In the studied cases, the DNN is able to reconstruct the relevant parameters - total energy and position -…
The Sky in Dust -- Methods and Prospects of Dust Astronomy
M. Landgraf, E. Grün, R. Srama +9
Information about the make-up of the galaxy arrives in the Solar system in many forms: photons of different energies, classically collected by ground- and space-based telescopes, n…
Active to sterile neutrino mixing limits from neutral-current interactions in MINOS
MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson, D. J. Auty +123
Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interacti…
Ion Chamber Arrays for the Numi Beam at Fermilab
D. Indurthy, Z. Pavlovic, R. Zwaska +16
The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beamline will deliver an intense muon neutrino beam by focusing a beam of mesons into a long evacuated decay volume. We have built 4 array…
Chandra study of an overdensity of X-ray sources around two distant (z~0.5) clusters
M. Cappi, P. Mazzotta, M. Elvis +21
We present results from a Chandra X-ray Observatory study of the field X-ray source populations in 4 different observations: two high-redshift (z~0.5) clusters of galaxies 3C295 an…