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Annual Report 2009 P O R T
A LNGS/EXP-01/10 N May 2010 N U A L R E Annual Report 2009 P O R T 2 0 0 9 Lab ora tor i N o az s io as nal S i del Gran LNGS - s.s. 17 bis km 18,910 67010 ASSERGI (AQ) ITALY tel.+39 0862 4371 fax +39 0862 437559 email: [email protected] http://www.lngs.infn.it Codice ISBN ISBN-978-88-907304-5-0 Annual Report 2009 LNGS Director Dr. Lucia Votano Editor Dr. Roberta Antolini Technical Assistants Dr. Adriano Di Giovanni Marco Galeota The Gran Sasso National Laboratory My mandate as Director at LNGS took effect from September 2009 and it would be unthinkable to start this introduction to the 2009 LNGS annual report without mentioning the earthquake of last April which left 370 people dead, 15,000 injured and devastated the surrounding area together with the social and economic life of L’Aquila. Most of the lab personnel as well as the 70,000 inhabitants in L’Aquila were rendered homeless. Fortunately the Laboratory survived the devastating earthquake and escaped damage. This was possible thanks to two factors: the acceleration experienced deep underground, (0.03g), as expected, was lower than that of the external laboratory (0.15 g) and much lower than in L’Aquila (0.64 g).; the anti-seismic design of the apparatus protected the underground installations. In April Eugenio Coccia was still on duty as Director of the Lab, and I think it is proper to mention how effective his dedication and actions were, in providing support to the laboratory personnel and assuring the immediate restarting of the activities in the Laboratory. -
Km3net/ORCA Telescopes
Search for light sterile neutrinos with ANTARES and KM3NeT/ORCA telescopes A. Domi1,2, J. A. B. Coelho3, T. Thakore4, for the ANTARES and KM3NeT Collaborations 1 Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa (Italy) - [email protected] 2 INFN-Genova, Genoa (Italy) 3 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay (France) - [email protected] 4 University of Cincinnati, Ohio (United States) - [email protected] VLVnT Workshop - 19/05/2021 1 Where are we with light sterile neutrinos? • Majority of experiments have confirmed the 3 flavour neutrino oscillations. • In parallel, anomalies observed in some oscillation experiments: Anomalies in Short baseline (SBL) Ref: Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 111 (2020) 103736 experiments •LSND: �� -> �e •MINIBooNE: �� -> �e / �� -> �e Gallium Anomalies: �e disappearance Reactor anomalies: e disappearance � Disagreement between appearance and disappearance NO ANOMALIES observed in / disappearance. Further observations needed! �� �� 2 Where are we with light sterile neutrinos? Cosmology • Constrains the effective number of relativistic species (Neff) in our universe. • A SBL neutrino would require Neff=4. • Measured Neff compatible with 3. -> Tension with SBL anomalies. • Tension relaxes when cosmological data are combined with astrophysical data. • Cosmological data alone can be compatible with • an eV-mass sterile neutrino only if its contribution to Neff is very small, • a larger Neff only if it comes from a nearly massless sterile particle. We need further observations: neutrino telescopes make it possible! 3 Sterile Neutrinos • Oscillations in the presence of sterile neutrinos are solutions of: 2 • Adding one sterile neutrino introduces 6 more free parameters: �m41 , 3 mixing angles (�14,�24,�34) and 2 more CP phases (�14, �24). -
The ANTARES and Km3net Neutrino Telescopes: Status and Outlook for Acoustic Studies
EPJ Web of Conferences 216, 01004 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921601004 ARENA 2018 The ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes: Status and outlook for acoustic studies Véronique Van Elewyck1,2, for the ANTARES and KM3NeT Collaborations 1APC, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France 2Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France Abstract. The ANTARES detector has been operating continuously since 2007 in the Mediterranean Sea, demonstrating the feasibility of an undersea neutrino telescope. Its superior angular resolution in the reconstruction of neutrino events of all flavors results in unprecedented sensitivity for neutrino source searches in the southern sky at TeV en- ergies, so that valuable constraints can be set on the origin of the cosmic neutrino flux discovered by the IceCube detector. The next generation KM3NeT neutrino telescope is now under construction, featuring two detectors with the same technology but different granularity: ARCA designed to search for high energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrinos and ORCA designed to study atmospheric neutrino oscillations at the GeV scale, focusing on the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy. Both detectors use acoustic devices for positioning calibration, and provide testbeds for acoustic neutrino detection. 1 Introduction Neutrinos have long been proposed as a complementary probe to cosmic rays and photons to explore the high-energy (HE) sky, as they can emerge from dense media and travel across cosmological dis- tances without being deflected by magnetic fields nor absorbed by inter- and intra-galactic matter and radiation. HE (>TeV) neutrinos are expected to be emitted in a wide range of astrophysical objects. -
Pos(ICHEP2020)886
The Outer Detector (OD) system for the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment PoS(ICHEP2020)886 Stephane Zsoldos0,1,2,∗ 0Department of Physics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom 1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, Berkeley, USA 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720-8153, USA E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Hyper-Kamiokande, scheduled to begin construction as soon as 2020, is a next generation under- ground water Cherenkov detector, based on the highly successful Super-Kamiokande experiment. It will serve as a far detector, 295 km away, of a long baseline neutrino experiment for the upgraded J-PARC beam in Japan. It will also be a detector capable of observing — far beyond the sensitivity of the Super-Kamiokande detector — proton decay, atmospheric neutrinos, and neutrinos from astronomical sources. An Outer Detector (OD) consisting of PMTs mounted behind the inner detector PMTs and facing outwards to view the outer shell of the cylindrical tank, would provide topological information to identify interactions originating from particles outside the inner detector. Any optimization would lead to a significant improvement for the physics goals of the experiment, which are the measurement of the CP leptonic phase and the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy. An innovative new setup using small 3" PMTs is being proposed for the Hyper-Kamiokande OD. They would give better redundancy, spatial, and angular resolution, as there would be twice or three times more photosensors that the original 8" design proposal of the experiment, and for a reduced cost. -
Ankur Sharma
Ankur Sharma Date of Birth 2nd August 1991 Gender Male Nationality Indian Phone +46 76 447 51 45 Address Eklundshovsvägen 4B, Lgh 1104 Email [email protected] 752 37, Uppsala, Sweden [email protected] Research Interests Phenomenological studies of VHE emission from jets of AGNs; multi-messenger and multi-wavelength connection in blazars with neutrino, gamma-ray and X-ray data; gamma-ray astronomy; observability of point sources with Cherenkov neutrino telescopes; detection strategies for ultra-high energy neutrinos Education Jan 2017 - PhD in Physics - University of Pisa (Italy) Present Area of study - Astroparticle Physics, Neutrino Astrophysics - Astroparticles, Experimental Astrophysics & Astroparticle Physics - High Energy Experimental Physics Thesis Title - Analyzing the high energy activity of candidate blazars to constrain their observability by neutrino telescopes Supervisor - Dr. Antonio Marinelli ([email protected]) Aug 2009 - Integrated M.Sc. (M.Sc. + B.Sc.) in Applied Physics - Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad Feb 2015 Area of study - Applied Physics - Nuclear & Particle Physics, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics - Computer Networks, Microprocessors, C++, ForTran Sept 2013 - Erasmus Mundus India4EU II Exchange Mobility - University of Porto (Portugal) July 2014 Area of study - Master Thesis, Astronomy - Stellar Structure & Evolution, Cosmology - Optical Communication, Measurement Techniques & Instrumentation Thesis Title - Constraining the Parameter Space of Dynamical -
Arxiv:1904.01056V1 [Physics.Ins-Det] 1 Apr 2019 ‡ † ∗ Acltos Cosawd Nryrneadi Various [5–7]
APS/IOA-165 3 Simulated neutrino signals of low and intermediate energy neutrinos on Cd detectors J. Sinatkas∗ Department of Informatics Engineering, Technological Institute of Western Macedonia, Kastoria, GR-52100 V. Tsakstara† Electrical Engineering Department, Technological Institute of Western Macedonia, School of Applied Science,Kozani, GR-50100 and Division of Theoretical Physics, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece Odysseas Kosmas‡ Modelling and Simulation Centre, MACE, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK (Dated: April 3, 2019) Neutrino-nucleus reactions cross sections, obtained for neutrino energies in the range εν ≤ 100 − 120 MeV (low- and intermediate-energy range), which refer to promising neutrino detec- tion targets of current terrestrial neutrino experiments, are presented and discussed. At first, we evaluated original cross sections for elastic scattering of neutrinos produced from various astrophys- ical and laboratory neutrino sources with the most abundant Cd isotopes 112Cd, 114Cd and 116Cd. These isotopes constitute the main material of the COBRA detector aiming to search for neutrino- less double beta decay events and neutrino-nucleus scattering events at the Gran Sasso laboratory (LNGS). The coherent ν-nucleus reaction channel addressed with emphasis here, dominates the neutral current ν-nucleus scattering, events of which have only recently been observed for a first time in the COHERENT experiment at Oak Ridge. Subsequently, simulated ν-signals expected to be recorded at Cd detectors are derived through the application of modern simulation techniques and employment of reliable neutrino distributions of astrophysical ν-sources (as the solar, super- nova and Earth neutrinos), as well as laboratory neutrinos (like the reactor neutrinos, the neutrinos produced from pion-muon decay at rest and the β-beam neutrinos produced from the acceleration of radioactive isotopes at storage rings as e.g. -
Geo-Neutrino Program at Baksan Neutrino Observatory Geoneutrino
Neutrino Geoscience 2019 Prague / Book of Abstracts The deep-sea neutrino detector KM3NeT/ORCA, currently being built in the Mediterranean Seanear Toulon (France), is optimized for the study of oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos in the few-GeV energy range, with the main goal to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is possible due to matter effects that modify the probability of neutrino oscillations along their path through theEarth. Measuring the energy and angular distributions of neutrinos with ORCA can therefore also provide tomographic information on the Earth’s interior and more specifically on the electron density along the trajectory of the detected neutrino, complementary to standard geophysics methods. In this contribution the latest results of a study of the potential of ORCA for Earth tomography are presented. They are based on a full Monte Carlo simulation of the detector response and including systematic effects. It is shown that after ten years of operation ORCA can measure the electron density in both the lower mantle and the outer core with a precision of a few percent in the case of normal neutrino mass hierarchy. 40 Geo-neutrino program at Baksan Neutrino Observatory Authors: Albert Gangapshev1 ; Andrey Sidorenkov2 ; Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev2 ; Daniil Kudrin2 ; Dmitry Voronin2 ; Evgeny Veretenkin2 ; Evgeny Yanovich2 ; Galina Novikova2 ; Makhti Kochkarov2 ; Nikita Ushakov2 ; Tatiana Ibragimova2 ; Valery Kuzminov1 ; Valery Petkov3 ; Vladimir Gavrin2 ; Vladimir Kazalov2 ; Yury Gavrilyuk2 ; Yury Malyshkin4 1 INR RAS, KBSU 2 INR RAS 3 INR RAS, IA RAS 4 INR RAS, INFN A new neutrino program has been recently lunched at Baksan Neutrino Observatory. It is planned to deploy a 10-kiloton scale detector based on liquid scintillator in the existing shaft at a depth of 4800 m.w.e. -
Sensitivity to Light Sterile Neutrino Mixing Parameters with Km3net/ORCA
Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA S. Aielloa, A. Albertbb,b, M. Alshamsic, S. Alves Garred, Z. Alye, A. Ambrosonef,g, F. Amelih, M. Andrei, G. Androulakisj, M. Anghinolfik, M. Anguital, G. Antonm, M. Ardidn, S. Ardidn, J. Aublinc, C. Bagatelasj, B. Baretc, S. Basegmez du Preeo, M. Bendahmanc,p, F. Benfenatiq,r, E. Berbeeo, A. M. van den Bergs, V. Bertine, S. Biagit, M. Bissingerm, M. Boettcheru, M. Bou Cabov, J. Boumaazap, M. Boutaw, M. Bouwhuiso, C. Bozzax, H.Br^anza¸sy, F. Bretaudeauz, R. Bruijno,aa, J. Brunnere, R. Brunoa, E. Buisab, R. Buompanef,ac, J. Bustoe, B. Caiffik, D. Calvod, S. Campionad,h, A. Caponead,h, V. Carreterod, P. Castaldiq,ae, S. Celliad,h, M. Chababaf, N. Chauc, A. Chenag, S. Cherubinit,ah, V. Chiarellaai, T. Chiarusiq, M. Circellaaj, R. Cocimanot, J. A. B. Coelhoc,˚, A. Coleiroc, M. Colomer Mollac,d, R. Coniglionet, P. Coylee, A. Creusotc, A. Cruzak, G. Cuttonet, R. Dallierz, B. De Martinoe, M. De Palmaaj,al, I. Di Palmaad,h, A. F. D´ıazl, D. Diego-Tortosan, C. Distefanot, A. Domik,am,˚, C. Donzaudc, D. Dornice, M. D¨orran, D. Drouhinbb,b, T. Eberlm, A. Eddyamouip, T. van Eedeno, D. van Eijko, I. El Bojaddainiw, D. Elsaesseran, A. Enzenh¨ofere, V. Espinosan, P. Fermaniad,h, G. Ferrarat,ah, M. D. Filipovi´cao, F. Filippiniq,r, L. A. Fuscoe, T. Galm, J. Garc´ıaM´endezn, A. Garcia Sotoo, F. Garufif,g, Y. Gateletc, N. Geißelbrechtm, L. Gialanellaf,ac, E. Giorgiot, S. R. Gozziniad,h, R. Graciao, K. Grafm, G. Grellaap, D. -
The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment Francesca Di Lodovico Queen Mary University of London
The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment Francesca Di Lodovico Queen Mary University of London On behalf of the Hyper-K UK collaboration PPAP Meeting July 26, 2016 A Multi-purpose Experiment Comprehensive study of oscillation • CPV Supernova • Mass hierarchy with beam+atmosph. • 23 octant • Test of exotic scenarios Nucleon decay discovery potential Sun • All visible modes including p → 푒+ 0 + Accelerator and p→휈 퐾 can be advanced beyond (J-PARC) SK. • Reaching 1035yrs sensitivity Unique Astrophysics T2HK • Precision measurement of solar • High statistics Supernova with pointing capability and energy info. • Supernova relic (non-burst ) Proton observation is also possible decay Earth core's chemical composition Etc. 2 Inaugural Symposium of the HK proto- collaboration@Kashiwa, Jan-2015 12 countries, ~250 members and growing KEK-IPNS and • Proto-collaboration formed. UTokyo-ICRR • International steering group signed a MoU for • International conveners cooperation • International chair for international on the Hyper- board of representative (IBR) Kamiokande project. 26/July/2016 The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment 3 Proto-Collaboration IRFU, CEA Saclay (France) Gifu University (Japan) Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique (France) High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) (Japan) Lancaster University (UK) Kobe University (Japan) Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) Kyoto University (Japan) Louisiana State University (USA) Miyagi University of Education (Japan) National Centre for Nuclear Research (Poland) Nagoya University -
Icecube and Km3net: Lessons and Relations
Elsevier Science 1 Journal logo IceCube and KM3NeT: Lessons and Relations Christian Spiering DESY, Platanenallee 6, Zeuthen, 15738 Germany Elsevier use only: Received date here; revised date here; accepted date here Abstract This talk presents conclusions for KM3NeT which may be drawn from latest IceCube results and from optimization studies of the IceCube configuration. It discusses possible coordinated efforts between IceCube and KM3NeT (or, for the time being, IceCube and ANTARES). Finally, it lists ideas for formal relations between neutrino telescopes on the cubic kilometer scale. © 2001 Elsevier Science. All rights reserved Keywords: Neutrino Telescopes 1. Introduction The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole Assuming one detector on the Southern is approaching its completion and meanwhile has hemisphere (IceCube) and one or more detectors at provided first results from data taken with initial the Northern hemisphere (by now ANTARES [10] configurations [1]. KM3NeT will act as IceCube’s and NT200 [11], in the future KM3NeT [12] and counterpart on the Northern hemisphere, with a GVD [13]), various possibilities for coordinated sensitivity “substantially exceeding that of all physics programs and analyses open up. They are existing neutrino telescopes including IceCube” [2]. discussed in sections 3 and 4. KM3NeT is just finishing its design phase [3], but Finally, section 5 lists formal and procedural has not yet converged to a final configuration. The possibilities of cooperation between KM3NeT and cited sensitivity requirement results not only from IceCube. gamma ray observations and their phenomenological interpretation (see e.g. [4-9]), but also from early IceCube data. The first section of this paper is 2. -
35. Particle Detectors for Non-Accelerator Physics
1 35. Particle Detectors for Non-Accelerator Physics 35. Particle Detectors for Non-Accelerator Physics 35.1 Introduction . 1 35.2 High-energy cosmic-ray hadron and gamma-ray detectors . 2 35.2.1 Atmospheric fluorescence detectors . 2 35.2.2 Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for high-energy gamma ray astronomy . 5 35.3 Large neutrino detectors . 8 35.3.1 Deep liquid detectors for rare processes . 8 35.3.2 Neutrino telescopes . 12 35.3.3 Radio emission from (ultra-)high energy particle showers . 20 35.4 Large time-projection chambers for rare event detection . 27 35.4.1 Dark matter and other low energy signals . 28 35.4.2 0νββ Decay . 31 35.5 Sub-Kelvin detectors . 32 35.5.1 Equilibrium thermal detectors . 32 35.5.2 Nonequilibrium Detectors . 34 35.6 Low-radioactivity background techniques . 36 35.6.1 Defining the problem . 37 35.6.2 Environmental radioactivity . 37 35.6.3 Radioactive impurities in detector and shielding components . 39 35.6.4 Radon and its progeny . 40 35.6.5 Cosmic rays . 41 35.6.6 Neutrons . 42 35.1 Introduction Non-accelerator experiments have become increasingly important in particle physics. These include cosmic ray experiments (with surface, space and underground detectors), neutrino oscilla- tion measurements with solar and atmospheric neutrinos in underground laboratories, searches for neutrino-less double beta decays and dark matter candidates again in underground laboratories, and searches for more exotic phenomena. The detectors are in the majority of the cases differ- ent from those used at accelerators. Even when the detectors are based on the same physics (e. -
Groupe Neutrino
Groupe Neutrino HCERES Report 2013-17 Present Composition •[9] permanents –Stavros Katsanevas* (Prof),Antoine Kouchner* (Prof), Thomas Patzak* (Prof), Véronique Van Elewyck (MC), Alessandra Tonazzo* (Prof) –Anatael Cabrera (CR), Jaime Dawson(CR), Davide Franco*(CR) –Thierry Lasserre* (DR CEA) [*HDR] •[4] postdocs –Marco Grassi, LiquidO, Marie Curie, –Anthony Onillon, Double Chooz, IN2P3, 15/09/2015 – 14/09/2018 –Christine Nielson, KM3NeT/ORCA, 09/2017 – –Stefan Wagner, LiquidO, CDD, July. 2017 – June. 2018 •[5] PhD students –Theodoros Avgitas*, CD , Antoine Kouchner, 11/2014 – 11/2017 –Simon Bourret*, AMX, Veronique Van Elewyk (Eduoard Kaminksi), 09/2015 –2018 –Timothée Gregoire*, CDE , Antoine Kouchner, 10/2015- 2018 –Yan Han, CSC, Anatael Cabrera, 09/2017 – 2020 –Andrea Scarpelli, CD , Thomas Patzak & Alessandra Tonazzo, 10/2016 – 2019 [*aussi membres du groupe Haute Energies – KM3NET] Recent Evolution (last 5 years) - I •Permanents Christiano Galbiati, DarkSide, invited professeur UPSC, 03/2016 – 12/2016 Fumihiko Suekane, LiquidO, chair Blaise-Pascal , 04/2017 – 11/2018 Michel Cribier (CEA DR), emeritus 2009 Herve de Kerret (DR), emeritus 2014 Francois Vannucci (PR), emeritus 2012 Daniel Vignaud (DR), emeritus 2007 Didier Kryn (CR), retired 2013 Michel Obolensky (CR), retired 2015 •Postdocs Hector Gomez, DoubleChooz/MuonTomography, labex UnivEarth (E4), 09/2014 - 09/2017 Joao de Abreu Barbosa Coelho, KM3NET ORCA, labex UnivEarth (E4), 12/2015 – 09/2017 Quentin Riffard, DarkSide, UnivEarth (E4), 11/2015 – 09/2017 Romain Roncin, Borexino/SOX,