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hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

First measurement of reactor neutrino oscillations at JUNO

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz +1131

Neutrino oscillations, a quantum effect manifesting at macroscopic scales, are governed by lepton flavor mixing angles and neutrino mass-squared differences that are fundamental pa…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Initial performance results of the JUNO detector

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz +1131

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) started physics data taking on 26 August 2025. JUNO consists of a 20-kton liquid scintillator central detector, surrounded by a…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

A graph-state based synthesis framework for Clifford isometries

Timothée Goubault de Brugière, Simon Martiel, Christophe Vuillot

We tackle the problem of Clifford isometry compilation, i.e, how to synthesize a Clifford isometry into an executable quantum circuit. We propose a simple framework for synthesis t…

quant-ph2022★ 16 cited

Gaussian Elimination versus Greedy Methods for the Synthesis of Linear Reversible Circuits

Timothée Goubault de Brugière, Marc Baboulin, Benoît Valiron +2

Linear reversible circuits represent a subclass of reversible circuits with many applications in quantum computing. These circuits can be efficiently simulated by classical compute…

physics.ins-det2022★ 1 cited

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…

hep-ex2020★ 13 cited

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…

hep-ex2020★ 6 cited

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…

cs.ET2020★ 5 cited

Synthesizing quantum circuits via numerical optimization

Timothée Goubault de Brugière, Marc Baboulin, Benoît Valiron +1

We provide a simple framework for the synthesis of quantum circuits based on a numerical optimization algorithm. This algorithm is used in the context of the trapped-ions technolog…

hep-ex2018★ 16 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 5 cited

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…

hep-ex2016★ 28 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 13 cited

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…

nucl-ex2015★ 15 cited

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…

hep-ex2015★ 73 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2015★ 187 cited

JUNO Conceptual Design Report

T. Adam, F. An, G. An +347

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using an underground liquid scintillator detector. It is located 53 km awa…

hep-ph2014★ 5 cited

Sensitivity of predictions in an effective model -- application to the chiral critical end point position in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model

Alexandre Biguet, Hubert Hansen, Pedro Costa +2

The measurement of the position of the chiral critical end point (CEP) in the QCD phase diagram is under debate. While it is possible to predict its position by using effective mod…

hep-ex2013★ 7 cited

Search for oscillations with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

OPERA collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Aleksandrov +161

A first result of the search for \numu \nue oscillations in the OPERA experiment, located at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory, is presented. The experiment looke…

hep-ex2012★ 50 cited

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam using the 2012 dedicated data

The OPERA Collaboration, T. Adam, N. Agafonova +168

In spring 2012 CERN provided two weeks of a short bunch proton beam dedicated to the neutrino velocity measurement over a distance of 730 km. The OPERA neutrino experiment at the u…

hep-ex2011★ 490 cited

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

The OPERA Collaboration, T. Adam, N. Agafonova +188

The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km. The measureme…

physics.ins-det2011★ 95 cited

Momentum measurement by the Multiple Coulomb Scattering method in the OPERA lead emulsion target

The OPERA Collaboration

A new method of momentum measurement of charged particles through Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) in the OPERA lead emulsion target is presented. It is based on precise measureme…

hep-ex2010★ 5 cited

Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio with the OPERA detector

OPERA Collaboration, N. Agafonova, A. Anokhina +182

The OPERA detector at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS) was used to measure the atmospheric muon charge ratio in the TeV energy region. We analyzed 403069 atmospheric mu…

physics.ins-det2008★ 47 cited

Emulsion sheet doublets as interface trackers for the OPERA experiment

A. Ariga

New methods for efficient and unambiguous interconnection between electronic counters and target units based on nuclear photographic emulsion films have been developed. The applica…