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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…
Neutrino monitoring of explosions for excluding fission yield
O. Benevides Rodrigues, N. S. Bowden, R. Carr +18
Nuclear fission produces neutrinos, so the absence of a neutrino signal can be used to set a limit on the fission content of an explosion. This capability could be employed on form…
Design, construction, and initial operation of a 30-ton Water-based Liquid scintillator detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory
S. Andrade, A. Baldoni, D. F. Cowen +25
Water-based Liquid Scintillator (WbLS) was proposed over a decade ago as a novel detector medium that might allow the separation and tuning of the relative ratio of the Cherenkov a…
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…
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…
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…
Solar fusion III: New data and theory for hydrogen-burning stars
B. Acharya, M. Aliotta, A. B. Balantekin +47
In stars that lie on the main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram, like our sun, hydrogen is fused to helium in a number of nuclear reaction chains and series, such as the p…
Design, construction, and operation of a 1-ton Water-based Liquid scintillator detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory
X. Xiang, G. Yang, S. Andrade +20
Water-based liquid scintillators (WbLS) are attractive neutrino detector materials because they allow us to tune the ratio of the Cherenkov and scintillation signals. Using WbLS la…
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…
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…
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
C. Adams, K. Alfonso, C. Andreoiu +229
This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta…
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…
Antineutrino sensitivity at THEIA
Stephane Zsoldos, Zara Bagdasarian, Gabriel D. Orebi Gann +2
We present the sensitivity of the Theia experiment to low-energy geo- and reactor antineutrinos. For this study, we consider one of the possible proposed designs, a 17.8-ktonne fid…
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…
Measurement of the Angular Distribution of Wavelength-Shifted Light Emitted by TPB
Jackson Schrott, Michinari Sakai, Samuel Naugle +4
We present measurements of the angular distribution of re-emitted light from tetraphenyl butadiene thin films when exposed to \SI{128}{nm} light in vacuum. Films ranging from \SI{2…
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…
Characterization of Light Production and Transport in Tellurium Dioxide Crystals
R. G. Huang, G. Benato, J. Caravaca +4
Simultaneous measurement of phonon and light signatures is an effective way to reduce the backgrounds and increase the sensitivity of CUPID, a next-generation bolometric neutrinole…
Measurements of the intrinsic quantum efficiency and absorption length of tetraphenyl butadiene thin films in the vacuum ultraviolet regime
C. P. Benson, G. D. Orebi Gann, V. M. Gehman
A key enabling technology for many liquid noble gas (LNG) detectors is the use of the common wavelength shifting medium tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB). TPB thin films are used to shif…
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.…