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The Eos detector: a demonstrator of hybrid optical detection technology
Eos Collaboration, S. Arora, M. Askins +64
Eos is an R&D testbed for hybrid detector technologies, featuring state-of-the-art sub-ns photosensors, the first implementation of dichroicons in a large-scale demonstrator, and t…
Performance of the Eos detector with water
Eos Collaboration, S. Arora, M. Askins +64
In this manuscript we present the first results from Eos, a four tonne optical detector located at the University of California, Berkeley. The primary goal of Eos is to demonstrate…
Cosmogenic Neutron Production in Water at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +112
Accurate measurement of the cosmogenic muon-induced neutron yield is crucial for constraining a significant background in a wide range of low-energy physics searches. Although prev…
Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +298
The SNO+ collaboration reports its second spectral analysis of reactor antineutrino oscillation using 286 tonne-years of new data. The measured energies of reactor antineutrino can…
Development of a Bi-solvent Liquid Scintillator with Slow Light Emission
Hans Th. J. Steiger, Matthias Raphael Stock, Manuel Böhles +14
One of the most promising approaches for the next generation of neutrino experiments is the realization of large hybrid Cherenkov/scintillation detectors made possible by recent in…
Initial measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +119
The SNO+ collaboration reports its first spectral analysis of long-baseline reactor antineutrino oscillation using 114 tonne-years of data. Fitting the neutrino oscillation probabi…
Characterization of the scintillation response of water-based liquid scintillator to alpha particles, and implications for particle identification
E. J. Callaghan, T. Kaptanoglu, M. Smiley +2
Next-generation large-scale neutrino detectors, from Eos, at the 1 tonne scale, to Theia, at the 10s-of-ktonne scale, will utilize differences in both the scintillation and Cherenk…
Event-by-Event Direction Reconstruction of Solar Neutrinos in a High Light-Yield Liquid Scintillator
A. Allega, M. R. Anderson, S. Andringa +116
The direction of individual B solar neutrinos has been reconstructed using the SNO+ liquid scintillator detector. Prompt, directional Cherenkov light was separated from the slo…
Measurement of proton light yield of water-based liquid scintillator
E. J. Callaghan, B. L. Goldblum, J. A. Brown +4
The proton light yield of liquid scintillators is an important property in the context of their use in large-scale neutrino experiments, with direct implications for neutrino-proto…
Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors using Pure Water at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +114
The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of reactor antineutrinos in a Cherenkov detector. The nearest nuclear reactors are located 240~km away in Ontario, Canada. This an…
Theia: Summary of physics program. Snowmass White Paper Submission
M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros +84
Theia would be a novel, "hybrid" optical neutrino detector, with a rich physics program. This paper is intended to provide a brief overview of the concepts and physics reach of The…
Cherenkov and Scintillation Separation in Water-Based Liquid Scintillator using an LAPPD
T. Kaptanoglu, E. J. Callaghan, M. Yeh +1
This manuscript describes measurements of water-based liquid scintillators (WbLS), demonstrating separation of the Cherenkov and scintillation components using the fast timing resp…
Optical calibration of the SNO+ detector in the water phase with deployed sources
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +120
SNO+ is a large-scale liquid scintillator experiment with the primary goal of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, and is located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB,…
The SNO+ Experiment
SNO+ Collaboration, :, V. Albanese +251
The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta () decay will be conducted using 780 tonnes…
Comparative scintillation performance of EJ-309, EJ-276, and a novel organic glass
T. A. Laplace, B. L. Goldblum, J. E. Bevins +14
An organic glass scintillator developed by Sandia National Laboratories was characterized in terms of its light output and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) properties and compared…
Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +223
A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is…
Search for solar neutrinos and the diffuse supernova neutrino background using all three phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +129
A search has been performed for neutrinos from two sources, the reaction in the solar fusion chain and the component of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (…
Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +130
The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV produced by neutron capture on hydr…
Theia: An advanced optical neutrino detector
M. Askins, Z. Bagdasarian, N. Barros +75
New developments in liquid scintillators, high-efficiency, fast photon detectors, and chromatic photon sorting have opened up the possibility for building a large-scale detector th…
Cosmogenic Neutron Production at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +128
Neutrons produced in nuclear interactions initiated by cosmic-ray muons present an irreducible background to many rare-event searches, even in detectors located deep underground. M…
Measurement of neutron production in atmospheric neutrino interactions at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +129
Neutron production in GeV-scale neutrino interactions is a poorly studied process. We have measured the neutron multiplicities in atmospheric neutrino interactions in the Sudbury N…
Measurement of the B Solar Neutrino Flux in SNO+ with Very Low Backgrounds
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +120
A measurement of the B solar neutrino flux has been made using a 69.2 kt-day dataset acquired with the SNO+ detector during its water commissioning phase. At energies above 6 M…
Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +195
This paper reports results from a search for nucleon decay through 'invisible' modes, where no visible energy is directly deposited during the decay itself, during the initial wate…
Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +128
The long baseline between the Earth and the Sun makes solar neutrinos an excellent test beam for exploring possible neutrino decay. The signature of such decay would be an energy-d…