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The NEXT-100 Detector
NEXT Collaboration, C. Adams, H. Almazán +114
The NEXT collaboration is dedicated to the study of double beta decays of Xe using a high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chamber. This advanced technology…
Performance of an Optical TPC Geant4 Simulation with Opticks GPU-Accelerated Photon Propagation
NEXT Collaboration, I. Parmaksiz, K. Mistry +113
We investigate the performance of Opticks, a NVIDIA OptiX API 7.5 GPU-accelerated photon propagation tool compared with a single-threaded Geant4 simulation. We compare the simulati…
Fluorescence Imaging of Individual Ions and Molecules in Pressurized Noble Gases for Barium Tagging in Xe
NEXT Collaboration, N. Byrnes, E. Dey +112
The imaging of individual Ba ions in high pressure xenon gas is one possible way to attain background-free sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta decay and hence establish…
Demonstration of Event Position Reconstruction based on Diffusion in the NEXT-White Detector
J. Haefner, K. E. Navarro, R. Guenette +108
Noble element time projection chambers are a leading technology for rare event detection in physics, such as for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay searches. Time proje…
A Compact Dication Source for Ba Tagging and Heavy Metal Ion Sensor Development
K. E. Navarro, B. J. P. Jones, J. Baeza-Rubio +107
We present a tunable metal ion beam that delivers controllable ion currents in the picoamp range for testing of dry-phase ion sensors. Ion beams are formed by sequential atomic eva…
Improved FIFRELIN de-excitation model for neutrino applications
H. Almazan, L. Bernard, A. Blanchet +26
The precise modeling of the de-excitation of Gd isotopes is of great interest for experimental studies of neutrinos using Gd-loaded organic liquid scintillators. The FIFRELIN code…
The Double Chooz antineutrino detectors
Double Chooz Collaboration, H. de Kerret, Y. Abe +247
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 meas…
Search for Signatures of Sterile Neutrinos with Double Chooz
The Double Chooz Collaboration, T. Abrahão, H. Almazan +92
We present a search for signatures of neutrino mixing of electron anti-neutrinos with additional hypothetical sterile neutrino flavors using the Double Chooz experiment. The search…
Reactor Rate Modulation oscillation analysis with two detectors in Double Chooz
Double Chooz Collaboration, T. Abrahão, H. Almazan +84
A oscillation analysis based on the observed antineutrino rates at the Double Chooz far and near detectors for different reactor power conditions is presented. This approa…
Note on arXiv:2005.05301, 'Preparation of the Neutrino-4 experiment on search for sterile neutrino and the obtained results of measurements'
H. Almazán, M. Andriamirado, A. B. Balantekin +79
We comment on the claimed observation [arXiv:arXiv:2005.05301] of sterile neutrino oscillations by the Neutrino-4 collaboration. Such a claim, which requires the existence of a new…
Accurate Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Yield of U-235 Fissions from the STEREO Experiment with 119 Days of Reactor-On Data
STEREO Collaboration, H. Almazán, L. Bernard +26
We report a measurement of the antineutrino rate from the fission of U-235 with the STEREO detector using 119 days of reactor turned on. In our analysis, we perform several detaile…
Improved Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 179 Days of Reactor-On Data
STEREO Collaboration, H. Almazán, L. Bernard +27
The STEREO experiment is a very short baseline reactor antineutrino experiment. It is designed to test the hypothesis of light sterile neutrinos being the cause of a deficit of the…
Improved STEREO simulation with a new gamma ray spectrum of excited gadolinium isotopes using FIFRELIN
H. Almazán, L. Bernard, A. Blanchet +27
The STEREO experiment measures the electron antineutrino spectrum emitted in a research reactor using the inverse beta decay reaction on H nuclei in a gadolinium loaded liquid scin…
Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 66 days of Reactor-on Data
H. Almazán, P. del Amo Sanchez, L. Bernard +25
The reactor antineutrino anomaly might be explained by the oscillation of reactor antineutrinos toward a sterile neutrino of eV mass. In order to explore this hypothesis, the STERE…
Yields and production rates of cosmogenic Li and He measured with the Double Chooz near and far detectors
H. de Kerret, T. Abrahão, H. Almazan +95
The yields and production rates of the radioisotopes Li and He created by cosmic muon spallation on C, have been measured by the two detectors of the Double Chooz ex…
Novel event classification based on spectral analysis of scintillation waveforms in Double Chooz
T. Abrahão, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos +94
Liquid scintillators are a common choice for neutrino physics experiments, but their capabilities to perform background rejection by scintillation pulse shape discrimination is gen…
Cosmic-muon characterization and annual modulation measurement with Double Chooz detectors
T. Abrahão, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos +107
A study on cosmic muons has been performed for the two identical near and far neutrino detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, placed at 120 and 300 m.w.e. undergroun…
Characterization of the Spontaneous Light Emission of the PMTs used in the Double Chooz Experiment
Double Chooz collaboration, Y. Abe, T. Abrahão +146
During the commissioning of the first of the two detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, an unexpected and dominant background caused by the emission of light inside the optical…
Muon capture on light isotopes in Double Chooz
Double Chooz collaboration, Y. Abe, T. Abrahão +144
Using the Double Chooz detector, designed to measure the neutrino mixing angle , the products of capture on C, C, N and O have been measur…
Measurement of in Double Chooz using neutron captures on hydrogen with novel background rejection techniques
Y. Abe, S. Appel, T. Abrahão +142
The Double Chooz collaboration presents a measurement of the neutrino mixing angle using reactor observed via the inverse beta decay reaction in which the…