Publications (11)
Analysis of reactor burnup simulation uncertainties for antineutrino spectrum prediction
A. Barresi, M. Borghesi, A. Cammi +64
Nuclear reactors are a source of electron antineutrinos due to the presence of unstable fission products that undergo $β^-$ decay. They will be exploited by the JUNO experiment to…
Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector
Daya Bay, JUNO collaborations, : +646
To maximize the light yield of the liquid scintillator (LS) for the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 t LS sample was produced in a pilot plant at Daya Bay. Th…
The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Collaboration, J. Abraham, P. Abreu +515
The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It combines a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level together with a fluo…
Ultra-trace analysis of U and Th in organic liquid scintillators with high sensitivity
A. Barresi, D. Chiesa, D. Merli +63
Rare event searches demand extremely low background levels, necessitating ever-advancing screening techniques to enhance sensitivity. Liquid scintillators are highly attractive as…
Refractive index in the JUNO liquid scintillator
H. S. Zhang, M. Beretta, S. Cialdi +73
In the field of rare event physics, it is common to have huge masses of organic liquid scintillator as detection medium. In particular, they are widely used to study neutrino prope…
Ultra-trace analysis of 40K in organic liquid scintillators
A. Barresi, D. Chiesa, D. Merli +64
Rare-event searches require exceptionally low background levels, motivating the development of increasingly sophisticated screening methods to push sensitivity limits. Liquid scint…
Real-Time Wiener Deconvolution for feature reconstruction in JUNO
L. Lastrucci, M. Grassi, A. Triossi +74
In particle physics, experiments generate substantial amounts of data that can be difficult to process without preliminary scaling. To avoid losing potentially crucial data, experi…
Distillation and Stripping purification plants for JUNO liquid scintillator
C. Landini, M. Beretta, P. Lombardi +64
The optical and radiochemical purification of the scintillating liquid, which will fill the central detector of the JUNO experiment, plays a crucial role in achieving its scientifi…
Simulation-based inference for Precision Neutrino Physics through Neural Monte Carlo tuning
A. Gavrikov, A. Serafini, D. Dolzhikov +63
Precise modeling of detector energy response is crucial for next-generation neutrino experiments which present computational challenges due to lack of analytical likelihoods. We pr…
Fluorescence emission of the JUNO liquid scintillator
M. Beretta, F. Houria, F. Ferraro +65
JUNO is a huge neutrino detector that will use 20 kton of organic liquid scintillator as its detection medium. The scintillator is a mixture of linear alkyl benzene (LAB), 2.5 g/L…
Interpretable machine learning approach for electron antineutrino selection in a large liquid scintillator detector
A. Gavrikov, V. Cerrone, A. Serafini +65
Several neutrino detectors, KamLAND, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, RENO, and the forthcoming large-scale JUNO, rely on liquid scintillator to detect reactor antineutrino interactions. In…