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Design and development of optical modules for the BUTTON-30 detector
D. S. Bhattacharya, J. Bae, M. Bergevin +63
BUTTON-30 is a neutrino detector demonstrator located in the STFC Boulby underground facility in the north-east of England. The main goal of the project is to deploy and test the p…
Reconstruction of neutrino events in the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment: Part I
S. Abubakar, M. Acsencio-Sosa, D. Ajana +65
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) was designed to reconstruct neutrino events from the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) with the parallel goals of…
The BUTTON-30 detector at Boulby
J. Bae, M. Bergevin, E. P. Bernard +62
The BUTTON-30 detector is a 30-tonne technology demonstrator designed to evaluate the potential of hybrid event detection, simultaneously exploiting both Cherenkov and scintillatio…
First Light from Beam Neutrinos on an LAPPD in ANNIE
B. W. Adams, S. Abubakar, D. Ajana +71
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is both a physics experiment and a technology testbed for next-generation light-based neutrino detection. In this pa…
Deployment of Water-based Liquid Scintillator in the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment
ANNIE Collaboration, M. Ascencio-Sosa, Z. Bagdasarian +52
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton water Cherenkov neutrino detector installed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) at Fermilab. Its main phy…
A Neutrino Detector Design for Safeguarding Small Modular Reactors
Emma Houston, Oluwatomi Akindele, Marc Bergevin +3
Nuclear reactors have long been a favored source for antineutrino measurements for estimates of power and burnup. With appropriate detector parameters and background rejection, an…
Exclusion and Verification of Remote Nuclear Reactors with a 1-Kiloton Gd-Doped Water Detector
O. A. Akindele, A. Bernstein, M. Bergevin +4
To date, antineutrino experiments built for the purpose of demonstrating a nonproliferation capability have typically employed organic scintillators, were situated as close to the…
A Call to Arms Control: Synergies between Nonproliferation Applications of Neutrino Detectors and Large-Scale Fundamental Neutrino Physics Experiments
T. Akindele, T. Anderson, E. Anderssen +162
The High Energy Physics community can benefit from a natural synergy in research activities into next-generation large-scale water and scintillator neutrino detectors, now being st…
Improvement in light collection of a photomultiplier tube using a wavelength-shifting plate
Austin Mullen, Oluwatomi Akindele, Marc Bergevin +2
Large-volume water-Cherenkov neutrino detectors are a light-starved environment, as each interaction produces only photons per MeV. As such, maximizing the light coll…
Scalability of gadolinium-doped-water Cherenkov detectors for nuclear nonproliferation
Viacheslav A. Li, Steven A. Dazeley, Marc Bergevin +1
Antineutrinos are an unavoidable byproduct of the fission process. The kiloton-scale KamLAND experiment has demonstrated the capability to detect reactor antineutrinos at few-hundr…
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…
Measurement of Muon-induced High-energy Neutrons from Rock in an Underground Gd-doped Water Detector
F. Sutanto, O. A. Akindele, M. Askins +9
We present a measurement of the rate of correlated neutron captures in the WATCHBOY detector, deployed at a depth of approximately 390 meters water equivalent (m.w.e.) in the Kimba…
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 (…
Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande
Jost Migenda
Supernovae are among the most magnificent events in the observable universe. They produce many of the chemical elements necessary for life to exist and their remnants---neutron sta…
Reinterpreting Neutrino Oscillations
M. Bergevin
This letter proposes an alternative quantum mechanical picture for the observed phenomena of neutrino oscillations. It is assumed in the following that neutrinos interact via diaba…
Applied Antineutrino Physics 2018 Proceedings
M. Bergevin, N. Bowden, H. P. Mumm +22
Proceedings for the 14th installment of Applied Antineutrino Physics (AAP) workshop series.
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…
Directionally Accelerated Detection of an Unknown Second Reactor with Antineutrinos for Mid-Field Nonproliferation Monitoring
D. L. Danielson, O. A. Akindele, M. Askins +67
When monitoring a reactor site for nuclear nonproliferation purposes, the presence of an unknown or hidden nuclear reactor could be obscured by the activities of a known reactor of…
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…
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…
Tests of Lorentz invariance at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +131
Experimental tests of Lorentz symmetry in systems of all types are critical for ensuring that the basic assumptions of physics are well-founded. Data from all phases of the Sudbury…
Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report
Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboration, :, K. Abe +313
On the strength of a double Nobel prize winning experiment (Super)Kamiokande and an extremely successful long baseline neutrino programme, the third generation Water Cherenkov dete…
Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE): Preliminary Results and Physics Phase Proposal
A. R. Back, J. F. Beacom, M. Bergevin +28
The R&D mission of the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is described in detail. ANNIE is: (1) an important measurement of neutrino-nucleus interactions f…
The search for neutron-antineutron oscillations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +122
Tests on symmetry breaking models are important probes to search for new physics. One proposed model with involves the oscillations of a neutron to an antineutron.…