4 papers
Self-Calibration of the Neutrino-Argon Cross Section with Solar Neutrinos
Rasmi Hajjar, Obada Nairat, John F. Beacom
The success of DUNE's MeV physics program depends upon high-precision knowledge of the charged-current (CC) cross section. While there are indirect constrai…
Towards First Detection of the Solar MSW Transition With JUNO
Obada Nairat, John F. Beacom, Kevin J. Kelly +1
Matter-induced neutrino flavor mixing (the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein, or MSW, effect) is a central prediction of the neutrino mixing framework, but it has not been conclusively…
New Spallation Background Rejection Techniques to Greatly Improve the Solar Neutrino Sensitivity of JUNO
Obada Nairat, John F. Beacom, Shirley Weishi Li
While the potential of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) to measure solar neutrinos is known, realizing this potential requires new techniques to reduce detector…
Neutron Tagging Can Greatly Reduce Spallation Backgrounds in Super-Kamiokande
Obada Nairat, John F. Beacom, Shirley Weishi Li
Super-Kamiokande's spallation backgrounds - the delayed beta decays of nuclides following cosmic-ray muons - are nearly all produced by the small fraction of muons with hadronic sh…