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1. Initial measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+

Author: Allega, A, Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Bacon, A, Baker, J, Barão, F, Barros, N, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bezerra, TS, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Chen, M, Cheng, S, Cleveland, B, Cookman, D, Corning, J, Cox, MA, Dehghani, R, Deloye, J, Depatie, MM, Di Lodovico, F, Dima, C, Dittmer, J, Dixon, KH, Esmaeilian, MS, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Ford, R, Gaur, A, González-Reina, OI, Gooding, D, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hall, S, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hewitt, C, Howard, V, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Huang, P, Hunt-Stokes, R, Hussain, SMA, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaluzienski, S, Kaptanoglu, T, Khan, H, Kladnik, J, Klein, JR, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupová, T, Lake, C, Lebanowski, L, Lefebvre, C, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Mills, C, Milton, G, Colina, A Molina, Morris, D, Morton-Blake, I, Mubasher, M, Naugle, S, Nolan, LJ, O’Keeffe, HM, Gann, GD Orebi, Page, J, Paleshi, K, Parker, W, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pickard, L, Quenallata, B, Ravi, P, Reichold, A, Riccetto, S, Rose, J, Rosero, R, Semenec, I, Simms, J, Skensved, P, and Smiley, M
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: Abstract: The SNO$$+$$ + collaboration reports its first spectral analysis of long-baseline reactor antineutrino oscillation using 114 tonne-years of data. Fitting the neutrino oscillation probability to the observed energy spectrum yields constraints on the neutrino mass-squared difference $$\Delta m^2_{21}$$ Δ m 21 2 . In the ranges allowed by previous measurements, the best-fit $$\Delta m^2_{21}$$ Δ m 21 2 is ($$8.85^{+1.10}_{-1.33}$$ 8 . 85 - 1.33 + 1.10 ) $$\times $$ × $$10^{-5}$$ 10 - 5 $$\hbox {eV}^2$$ eV 2 . This measurement is continuing in the next phases of SNO+ and is expected to surpass the present global precision on $$\Delta m^2_{21}$$ Δ m 21 2 with about three years of data.
Published: 2025

2. Measurement of the B8 solar neutrino flux using the full SNO+ water phase dataset

Author: Allega, A, Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Askins, M, Asner, DM, Auty, DJ, Bacon, A, Barão, F, Barros, N, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Chen, M, Cheng, S, Cleveland, B, Cookman, D, Corning, J, Cox, MA, Dehghani, R, Deloye, J, Depatie, MM, Di Lodovico, F, Dima, C, Dittmer, J, Dixon, KH, Esmaeilian, MS, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Ford, R, Gaur, A, González-Reina, OI, Gooding, D, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hall, S, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hewitt, C, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Huang, P, Hunt-Stokes, R, Hussain, SMA, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaluzienski, S, Kaptanoglu, T, Kladnik, J, Klein, JR, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupová, T, Lake, C, Lebanowski, L, Lefebvre, C, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Milton, G, Morris, D, Mubasher, M, Naugle, S, Nolan, LJ, O’Keeffe, HM, Gann, GD Orebi, Page, J, Paleshi, K, Parker, W, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pickard, L, Quenallata, B, Ravi, P, Reichold, A, Riccetto, S, Rose, J, Rosero, R, Semenec, I, Simms, J, Skensved, P, Smiley, M, Svoboda, R, Tam, B, Tseng, J, Vázquez-Jáuregui, E, Virtue, CJ, and Ward, M
Subjects: Particle and High Energy Physics, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Astronomical Sciences
Abstract: The SNO+ detector operated initially as a water Cherenkov detector. The implementation of a sealed cover gas system midway through water data taking resulted in a significant reduction in the activity of Rn222 daughters in the detector and allowed the lowest background to the solar electron scattering signal above 5 MeV achieved to date. This paper reports an updated SNO+ water phase B8 solar neutrino analysis with a total livetime of 282.4 days and an analysis threshold of 3.5 MeV. The B8 solar neutrino flux is found to be (2.32-0.17+0.18(stat)-0.05+0.07(syst))×106 cm-2 s-1 assuming no neutrino oscillations, or (5.36-0.39+0.41(stat)-0.16+0.17(syst))×106 cm-2 s-1 assuming standard neutrino oscillation parameters, in good agreement with both previous measurements and standard solar model calculations. The electron recoil spectrum is presented above 3.5 MeV.
Published: 2024

3. Measurement of the $^8$B Solar Neutrino Flux Using the Full SNO+ Water Phase Dataset

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Askins, M., Asner, D. M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Barão, F., Barros, N., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Chen, M., Cheng, S., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Dehghani, R., Deloye, J., Depatie, M. M., Di Lodovico, F., Dima, C., Dittmer, J., Dixon, K. H., Esmaeilian, M. S., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R., Gaur, A., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hall, S., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hewitt, C., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Huang, P., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaluzienski, S., Kaptanoglu, T., Kladnik, J., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Lake, C., Lebanowski, L., Lefebvre, C., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Milton, G., Morris, D., Mubasher, M., Naugle, S., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Paleshi, K., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pickard, L., Quenallata, B., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Semenec, I., Simms, J., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Virtue, C. J., Ward, M., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, J. D., Wright, A., Yang, S., Yeh, M., Ye, Z., Yu, S., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The SNO+ detector operated initially as a water Cherenkov detector. The implementation of a sealed covergas system midway through water data taking resulted in a significant reduction in the activity of $^{222}$Rn daughters in the detector and allowed the lowest background to the solar electron scattering signal above 5 MeV achieved to date. This paper reports an updated SNO+ water phase $^8$B solar neutrino analysis with a total livetime of 282.4 days and an analysis threshold of 3.5 MeV. The $^8$B solar neutrino flux is found to be $\left(2.32^{+0.18}_{-0.17}\text{(stat.)}^{+0.07}_{-0.05}\text{(syst.)}\right)\times10^{6}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ assuming no neutrino oscillations, or $\left(5.36^{+0.41}_{-0.39}\text{(stat.)}^{+0.17}_{-0.16}\text{(syst.)} \right)\times10^{6}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ assuming standard neutrino oscillation parameters, in good agreement with both previous measurements and Standard Solar Model Calculations. The electron recoil spectrum is presented above 3.5 MeV., Comment: 9 pages, 10 figures, v2: minor updates to match PRD publication
Published: 2024
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4. Initial measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Askins, M., Asner, D. M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Baker, J., Barão, F., Barros, N., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Chen, M., Cheng, S., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Dehghani, R., Deloye, J., Depatie, M. M., Di Lodovico, F., Dima, C., Dittmer, J., Dixon, K. H., Esmaeilian, M. S., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R., Gaur, A., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hall, S., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hewitt, C., Howard, V., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Huang, P., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaluzienski, S., Kaptanoglu, T., Khan, H., Kladnik, J., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Lake, C., Lebanowski, L., Lefebvre, C., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mills, C., Milton, G., Colina, A. Molina, Morris, D., Morton-Blake, I., Mubasher, M., Naugle, S., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Paleshi, K., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pickard, L., Quenallata, B., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Semenec, I., Simms, J., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Smith, J., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., Ward, M., Weigand, J. J., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, J. D., Wright, A., Yang, S., Yeh, M., Ye, Z., Yu, S., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The SNO+ collaboration reports its first spectral analysis of long-baseline reactor antineutrino oscillation using 114 tonne-years of data. Fitting the neutrino oscillation probability to the observed energy spectrum yields constraints on the neutrino mass-squared difference $\Delta m^2_{21}$. In the ranges allowed by previous measurements, the best-fit $\Delta m^2_{21}$ is (8.85$^{+1.10}_{-1.33}$) $\times$ 10$^{-5}$ eV$^2$. This measurement is continuing in the next phases of SNO+ and is expected to surpass the present global precision on $\Delta m^2_{21}$ with about three years of data.
Published: 2024
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5. Event-by-event direction reconstruction of solar neutrinos in a high light-yield liquid scintillator

Author: Allega, A, Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Antunes, J, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Bacon, A, Baker, J, Barros, N, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bezerra, TS, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Chen, M, Cheng, S, Cleveland, B, Cookman, D, Corning, J, Cox, MA, Dehghani, R, Deloye, J, Depatie, MM, Di Lodovico, F, Dittmer, J, Dixon, KH, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Ford, R, Gaur, A, González-Reina, OI, Gooding, D, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hall, S, Hallin, AL, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hewitt, C, Hreljac, B, Howard, V, Hu, J, Hunt-Stokes, R, Hussain, SMA, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaluzienski, S, Kaptanoglu, T, Khaghani, P, Khan, H, Klein, JR, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupová, T, Lake, C, Lebanowski, L, Lee, J, Lefebvre, C, Lin, YH, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Mills, C, Milton, G, Morton-Blake, I, Mubasher, M, Colina, A Molina, Morris, D, Naugle, S, Nolan, LJ, O’Keeffe, HM, Gann, GD Orebi, Page, J, Paleshi, K, Parker, W, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pickard, L, Ravi, P, Reichold, A, Riccetto, S, Rigan, M, Rose, J, Rosero, R, Rumleskie, J, Semenec, I, Skensved, P, Smiley, M, and Smith, J
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Physical Sciences
Abstract: The direction of individual B8 solar neutrinos has been reconstructed using the SNO+ liquid scintillator detector. Prompt, directional Cherenkov light was separated from the slower, isotropic scintillation light using time information, and a maximum likelihood method was used to reconstruct the direction of individual scattered electrons. A clear directional signal was observed, correlated with the solar angle. The observation was aided by a period of low primary fluor concentration that resulted in a slower scintillator decay time. This is the first time that event-by-event direction reconstruction in high light-yield liquid scintillator has been demonstrated in a large-scale detector.
Published: 2024

6. Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling

Author: The MICE Collaboration, Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y. P., Tang, J. Y., Li, Z. H., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., de Bari, A., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Sakamoto, H., Sato, A., Ishimoto, S., Chung, M., Sung, C. K., Filthaut, F., Fedorov, M., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Jovancevic, N., Nikolov, J., Vretenar, M., Ramberger, S., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Boyd, S., Greis, J. R., Lord, T., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Dumbell, K., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Brown, C., Courthold, M., Govans, J., Hayler, T., Hills, M., Lagrange, J. B., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Tucker, M., Watson, S., Wilson, A., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Gamet, R., Cooke, P., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Franchini, P., Hunt, C., Jurj, P. B., Kurup, A., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Pec, V., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Ellis, M., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Lambert, A., Li, D., Luo, T., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Adey, D., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., Freemire, B., Hanlet, P., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Rajaram, D., Snopok, P., Torun, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Coney, L. R., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams have not yet been produced. The main challenge for muon acceleration and storage stems from the large phase-space volume occupied by the beam, derived from the muon production mechanism through the decay of pions from proton collisions. Ionization cooling is the technique proposed to decrease the muon beam phase-space volume. Here we demonstrate a clear signal of ionization cooling through the observation of transverse emittance reduction in beams that traverse lithium hydride or liquid hydrogen absorbers in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). The measurement is well reproduced by the simulation of the experiment and the theoretical model. The results shown here represent a substantial advance towards the realization of muon-based facilities that could operate at the energy and intensity frontiers., Comment: 23 pages and 5 figures
Published: 2023

7. Event-by-Event Direction Reconstruction of Solar Neutrinos in a High Light-Yield Liquid Scintillator

Author: Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Antunes, J., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Baker, J., Barros, N., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Chen, M., Cheng, S., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Dehghani, R., Deloye, J., Depatie, M. M., Di Lodovico, F., Dittmer, J., Dixon, K. H., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R., Gaur, A., Ganzálaz-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hall, S., Hallin, A. L., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hewitt, C., Hreljac, B., Howard, V., Hu, J., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaluzienski, S., Kaptanoglu, T., Khaghani, P., Khan, H., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Lake, C., Lebanowski, L., Lee, J., Lefebvra, C., Lin, Y. H., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mills, C., Milton, G., Morton-Blake, I., Mubasher, M., Colina, A. Molina, Morris, D., Naugle, S., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Paleshi, K., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pickard, L., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Rigan, M., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Rumleskie, J., Semenec, I., Skensvard, P., Smiley, M., Smith, J., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Valder, S., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Virtue, C. J., Wang, J., Ward, M., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, J. D., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yang, S., Yeh, M., Ye, Z., Yu, S., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The direction of individual $^8$B solar neutrinos has been reconstructed using the SNO+ liquid scintillator detector. Prompt, directional Cherenkov light was separated from the slower, isotropic scintillation light using time information, and a maximum likelihood method was used to reconstruct the direction of individual scattered electrons. A clear directional signal was observed, correlated with the solar angle. The observation was aided by a period of low primary fluor concentration that resulted in a slower scintillator decay time. This is the first time that event-by-event direction reconstruction in high light-yield liquid scintillator has been demonstrated in a large-scale detector., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures. Accepted manuscript by PRD
Published: 2023
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8. Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors using Pure Water at SNO+

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Antunes, J., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Barros, N., Barao, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Cheng, S., Chen, M., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Dehghani, R., Deloye, J., Deluce, C., Depatie, M. M., Dittmer, J., Dixon, K. H., Di Lodovico, F., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R., Frankiewicz, K., Gaur, A., Gonzalez-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hu, J., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inacio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaluzienski, S., Kaptanoglu, T., Khaghani, P., Khan, H., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupova, T., Lam, I., Land, B. J., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Lee, J., Lefebvre, C., Lidgard, J., Lin, Y. H., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mills, C., Morton-Blake, I., Naugle, S., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pickard, L., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Rumleskie, J., Semenec, I., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Turner, E., Valder, S., Virtue, C. J., Vazquez-Jauregui, E., Wang, J., Ward, M., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, J. D., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yang, S., Yeh, M., Yu, S., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: 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 analysis uses events with energies lower than in any previous analysis with a large water Cherenkov detector. Two analytical methods are used to distinguish reactor antineutrinos from background events in 190 days of data and yield consistent evidence for antineutrinos with a combined significance of 3.5$\sigma$., Comment: v2: add missing author, add link to supplemental material v3: minor updates to match PRL publication
Published: 2022
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9. Multiple Coulomb Scattering of muons in Lithium Hydride

Author: Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y. P., Tang, J. Y., Li, Z. H., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., Palladino, V., de Bari, A., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Sakamoto, H., Sato, A., Ishimoto, S., Chung, M., Sung, C. K., Filthaut, F., Fedorov, M., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Jovancevic, N., Nikolov, J., Vretenar, M., Ramberger, S., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Dumbell, K., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Brown, C., Courthold, M., Govans, J., Hills, M., Lagrange, J. -B., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Tucker, M., Watson, S., Wilson, A., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Gamet, R., Cooke, P., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Franchini, P., Hunt, C., Jurj, P. B., Kurup, A., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Pec, V., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Boyd, S., Greis, J. R., Lord, T., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Ellis, M., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Adey, D., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Hanlet, P., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Lambert, A., Li, D., Luo, T., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Freemire, B., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Rajaram, D., Snopok, P., Torun, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Summers, D. J., Coney, L. R., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low $Z$ materials made in the MuScat experiment showed that theoretical models and simulation codes, such as GEANT4 (v7.0), over-estimated the scattering. The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) measured the cooling of a muon beam traversing a liquid hydrogen or lithium hydride (LiH) energy absorber as part of a programme to develop muon accelerator facilities, such as a Neutrino Factory or a Muon Collider. The energy loss and MCS that occur in the absorber material are competing effects that alter the performance of the cooling channel. Therefore measurements of MCS are required in order to validate the simulations used to predict the cooling performance in future accelerator facilities. We report measurements made in the MICE apparatus of MCS using a LiH absorber and muons within the momentum range 160 to 245 MeV/c. The measured RMS scattering width is about 9% smaller than that predicted by the approximate formula proposed by the Particle Data Group. Data at 172, 200 and 240 MeV/c are compared to the GEANT4 (v9.6) default scattering model. These measurements show agreement with this more recent GEANT4 (v9.6) version over the range of incident muon momenta., Comment: 20 pages, 14 figures, journal
Published: 2022
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10. Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors Using Pure Water at SNO+

Author: Allega, A, Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Antunes, J, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Bacon, A, Barros, N, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bezerra, TS, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Cheng, S, Chen, M, Cleveland, B, Cookman, D, Corning, J, Cox, MA, Dehghani, R, Deloye, J, Deluce, C, Depatie, MM, Dittmer, J, Dixon, KH, Di Lodovico, F, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Ford, R, Frankiewicz, K, Gaur, A, González-Reina, OI, Gooding, D, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hu, J, Hunt-Stokes, R, Hussain, SMA, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaluzienski, S, Kaptanoglu, T, Khaghani, P, Khan, H, Klein, JR, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupová, T, Lam, I, Land, BJ, Lawson, I, Lebanowski, L, Lee, J, Lefebvre, C, Lidgard, J, Lin, YH, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Mills, C, Morton-Blake, I, Naugle, S, Nolan, LJ, O’Keeffe, HM, Gann, GD Orebi, Page, J, Parker, W, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pickard, L, Ravi, P, Reichold, A, Riccetto, S, Richardson, R, Rigan, M, Rose, J, Rosero, R, Rumleskie, J, Semenec, I, Skensved, P, Smiley, M, Svoboda, R, Tam, B, Tseng, J, and Turner, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Physical Sciences, SNO+ Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract: 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 analysis uses events with energies lower than in any previous analysis with a large water Cherenkov detector. Two analytical methods are used to distinguish reactor antineutrinos from background events in 190 days of data and yield consistent evidence for antineutrinos with a combined significance of 3.5σ.
Published: 2023

11. Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Barros, N., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Cheng, S., Chen, M., Chkvorets, O., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Dehghani, R., Deluce, C., Depatie, M. M., Dittmer, J., Dixon, K. H., Di Lodovico, F., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R., Frankiewicz, K., Gaur, A., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Hartnell, J., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hu, J., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaptanoglu, T., Khaghani, P., Khan, H., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Lam, I., Land, B. J., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Lee, J., Lefebvre, C., Lidgard, J., Lin, Y. H., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Meyer, M., Mills, C., Morton-Blake, I., Naugle, S., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pickard, L., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Rose, J., Rumleskie, J., Semenec, I., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Turner, E., Valder, S., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Wang, J., Ward, M., Weigand, J. J., Wilson, J. D., Wilson, J. R., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yang, S., Yeh, M., Yu, S., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: This paper reports results from a search for single and multi-nucleon disappearance from the $^{16}$O nucleus in water within the \snoplus{} detector using all of the available data. These so-called "invisible" decays do not directly deposit energy within the detector but are instead detected through their subsequent nuclear de-excitation and gamma-ray emission. New limits are given for the partial lifetimes: $\tau(n\rightarrow inv) > 9.0\times10^{29}$ years, $\tau(p\rightarrow inv) > 9.6\times10^{29}$ years, $\tau(nn\rightarrow inv) > 1.5\times10^{28}$ years, $\tau(np\rightarrow inv) > 6.0\times10^{28}$ years, and $\tau(pp\rightarrow inv) > 1.1\times10^{29}$ years at 90\% Bayesian credibility level (with a prior uniform in rate). All but the ($nn\rightarrow inv$) results improve on existing limits by a factor of about 3.
Published: 2022
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12. Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+detector

Author: Allega, A, Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Bacon, A, Barros, N, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bezerra, TS, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Cheng, S, Chen, M, Chkvorets, O, Cleveland, B, Cookman, D, Corning, J, Cox, MA, Dehghani, R, Deluce, C, Depatie, MM, Dittmer, J, Dixon, KH, Di Lodovico, F, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Ford, R, Frankiewicz, K, Gaur, A, González-Reina, OI, Gooding, D, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Hartnell, J, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hu, J, Hunt-Stokes, R, Hussain, SMA, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaptanoglu, T, Khaghani, P, Khan, H, Klein, JR, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupová, T, Lam, I, Land, BJ, Lawson, I, Lebanowski, L, Lee, J, Lefebvre, C, Lidgard, J, Lin, YH, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Meyer, M, Mills, C, Morton-Blake, I, Naugle, S, Nolan, LJ, O’Keeffe, HM, Gann, GD Orebi, Page, J, Parker, W, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pickard, L, Ravi, P, Reichold, A, Riccetto, S, Richardson, R, Rigan, M, Rose, J, Rumleskie, J, Semenec, I, Skensved, P, Smiley, M, Svoboda, R, Tam, B, Tseng, J, Turner, E, and Valder, S
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences
Abstract: This paper reports results from a search for single and multinucleon disappearance from the O16 nucleus in water within the SNO+ detector using all of the available data. These so-called "invisible"decays do not directly deposit energy within the detector but are instead detected through their subsequent nuclear deexcitation and gamma-ray emission. New limits are given for the partial lifetimes: τ(n→inv)>9.0×1029 years, τ(p→inv)>9.6×1029 years, τ(nn→inv)>1.5×1028 years, τ(np→inv)>6.0×1028 years, and τ(pp→inv)>1.1×1029 years at 90% Bayesian credibility level (with a prior uniform in rate). All but the (nn→inv) results improve on existing limits by a factor of about 3.
Published: 2022

13. Performance of the MICE diagnostic system

Author: The MICE collaboration, Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y. P., Tang, J. Y., Li, Z. H., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., Palladino, V., de Bari, A., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Sakamoto, H., Sato, A., Ishimoto, S., Chung, M., Sung, C. K., Filthaut, F., Fedorov, M., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Jovancevic, N., Nikolov, J., Vretenar, M., Ramberger, S., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Dumbell, K., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Brown, C., Courthold, M., Govans, J., Hills, M., Lagrange, J. -B., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Tucker, M., Watson, S., Wilson, A., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Gamet, R., Cooke, P., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Franchini, P., Hunt, C., Jurj, P. B., Kurup, A., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Pec, V., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Boyd, S., Greis, J. R., Lord, T., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Ellis, M., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Adey, D., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Hanlet, P., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Lambert, A., Li, D., Luo, T., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Freemire, B., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Rajaram, D., Snopok, P., Torun, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Summers, D. J., Coney, L. R., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract: Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of a neutrino factory and for multi-TeV lepton-antilepton collisions at a muon collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) has demonstrated the principle of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam at such facilities. This paper documents the performance of the detectors used in MICE to measure the muon-beam parameters, and the physical properties of the liquid hydrogen energy absorber during running., Comment: 27 pages, 18 figures
Published: 2021
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14. Optical calibration of the SNO+ detector in the water phase with deployed sources

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Barão, F., Barros, N., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Boulay, M., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Caravaca, J., Chen, M., Chkvorets, O., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Deluce, C., Depatie, M. M., Di Lodovico, F., Dittmer, J., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Fischer, V., Ford, R., Frankiewicz, K., Gaur, A., Gilje, K., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Hartnell, J., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hu, J., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaptanoglu, T., Khaghani, P., Khan, H., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Lam, I., Land, B. J., LaTorre, A., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Lefebvre, C., Li, A., Lidgard, J., Lin, Y. H., Liu, Y., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Meyer, M., Mills, C., Morton-Blake, I., Nae, S., Nirkko, M., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pershing, T., Pickard, L., Prior, G., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Rose, J., Rumleskie, J., Semenec, I., Shaker, F., Sharma, M. K., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Stainforth, R., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Turner, E., Valder, S., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., Wang, J., Ward, M., Weigand, J. J., Wilson, J. R., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yeh, M., Yu, S., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: 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, Sudbury, Canada. The detector acquired data for two years as a pure water Cherenkov detector, starting in May 2017. During this period, the optical properties of the detector were measured in situ using a deployed light diffusing sphere, with the goal of improving the detector model and the energy response systematic uncertainties. The measured parameters included the water attenuation coefficients, effective attenuation coefficients for the acrylic vessel, and the angular response of the photomultiplier tubes and their surrounding light concentrators, all across different wavelengths. The calibrated detector model was validated using a deployed tagged gamma source, which showed a 0.6% variation in energy scale across the primary target volume., Comment: Accepted by JINST (30 pages, 19 figures)
Published: 2021
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15. The SNO+ Experiment

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Albanese, V., Alves, R., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Anselmo, L., Arushanova, E., Asahi, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Back, A. R., Back, S., Barão, F., Barnard, Z., Barr, A., Barros, N., Bartlett, D., Bayes, R., Beaudoin, C., Beier, E. W., Berardi, G., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Bonventre, R., Boulay, M., Braid, D., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Caravaca, J., Carvalho, J., Cavalli, L., Chauhan, D., Chen, M., Chkvorets, O., Clark, K. J., Cleveland, B., Connors, C., Cookman, D., Coulter, I. T., Cox, M. A., Cressy, D., Dai, X., Darrach, C., Davis-Purcell, B., Deluce, C., Depatie, M. M., Descamps, F., Di Lodovico, F., Dittmer, J., Doxtator, A., Duhaime, N., Duncan, F., Dunger, J., Earle, A. D., Fabris, D., Falk, E., Farrugia, A., Fatemighomi, N., Felber, C., Fischer, V., Fletcher, E., Ford, R., Frankiewicz, K., Gagnon, N., Gaur, A., Gauthier, J., Gibson-Foster, A., Gilje, K., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, C., Grove, J., Grullon, S., Guillian, E., Hall, S., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Hans, S., Hartnell, J., Harvey, P., Hedayatipour, M., Heintzelman, W. J., Heise, J., Helmer, R. L., Hodak, B., Hodak, M., Hood, M., Horne, D., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Hussain, S. M. A., Iida, T., Inácio, A. S., Jackson, C. M., Jelley, N. A., Jillings, C. J., Jones, C., Jones, P. G., Kamdin, K., Kaptanoglu, T., Kaspar, J., Keeter, K., Kefelian, C., Khaghani, P., Kippenbrock, L., Klein, J. R., Knapik, R., Kofron, J., Kormos, L. L., Korte, S., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Labe, K., Lafleur, F., Lam, I., Lan, C., Land, B. J., Lane, R., Langrock, S., Larochelle, P., Larose, S., LaTorre, A., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Lefeuvre, G. M., Leming, E. J., Li, A., Li, O., Lidgard, J., Liggins, B., Liimatainen, P., Lin, Y. H., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maguire, S., Maio, A., Majumdar, K., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., Marzec, E., Mastbaum, A., Mathewson, A., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., McFarlane, K., Mekarski, P., Meyer, M., Miller, C., Mills, C., Mlejnek, M., Mony, E., Morissette, B., Morton-Blake, I., Mottram, M. J., Nae, S., Nirkko, M., Nolan, L. J., Novikov, V. M., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, E., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Parnell, M. J., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pershing, T., Petriw, Z., Petzoldt, J., Pickard, L., Pracsovics, D., Prior, G., Prouty, J. C., Quirk, S., Read, S., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Ritchie, I., Robertson, A., Robertson, B. C., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Rost, P. M., Rumleskie, J., Schumaker, M. A., Schwendener, M. H., Scislowski, D., Secrest, J., Seddighin, M., Segui, L., Seibert, S., Semenec, I., Shaker, F., Shantz, T., Sharma, M. K., Shokair, T. M., Sibley, L., Sinclair, J. R., Singh, K., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Sonley, T., Sörensen, A., St-Amant, M., Stainforth, R., Stankiewicz, S., Strait, M., Stringer, M. I., Stripay, A., Svoboda, R., Tacchino, S., Tam, B., Tanguay, C., Tatar, J., Tian, L., Tolich, N., Tseng, J., Tseung, H. W. C., Turner, E., Van Berg, R., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., von Krosigk, B., Walker, J. M. G., Walker, M., Wallig, J., Walton, S. C., Wang, J., Ward, M., Wasalski, O., Waterfield, J., Weigand, J. J., White, R. F., Wilson, J. R., Winchester, T. J., Woosaree, P., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yeh, M., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., Zhao, T., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay will be conducted using 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator loaded with 3.9 tonnes of natural tellurium, corresponding to 1.3 tonnes of $^{130}$Te. This paper provides a general overview of the SNO+ experiment, including detector design, construction of process plants, commissioning efforts, electronics upgrades, data acquisition systems, and calibration techniques. The SNO+ collaboration is reusing the acrylic vessel, PMT array, and electronics of the SNO detector, having made a number of experimental upgrades and essential adaptations for use with the liquid scintillator. With low backgrounds and a low energy threshold, the SNO+ collaboration will also pursue a rich physics program beyond the search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay, including studies of geo- and reactor antineutrinos, supernova and solar neutrinos, and exotic physics such as the search for invisible nucleon decay. The SNO+ approach to the search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay is scalable: a future phase with high $^{130}$Te-loading is envisioned to probe an effective Majorana mass in the inverted mass ordering region., Comment: 61 pages, 23 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2021
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16. Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Anselmo, L., Arushanova, E., Asahi, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Back, A. R., Barnard, Z., Barros, N., Bartlett, D., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Bonventre, R., Boulay, M., Braid, D., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Caravaca, J., Carvalho, J., Cavalli, L., Chauhan, D., Chen, M., Chkvorets, O., Clark, K. J., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Connors, C., Coulter, I. T., Cox, M. A., Cressy, D., Dai, X., Darrach, C., Davis-Purcell, B., Deluce, C., Depatie, M. M., Descamps, F., Dittmer, J., Di Lodovico, F., Duhaime, N., Duncan, F., Dunger, J., Earle, A. D., Fabris, D., Falk, E., Farrugia, A., Fatemighomi, N., Fischer, V., Fletcher, E., Ford, R., Frankiewicz, K., Gagnon, N., Gaur, A., Gilje, K., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, C., Grove, J., Grullon, S., Guillian, E., Hall, S., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Hans, S., Hartnell, J., Harvey, P., Hedayatipour, M., Heintzelman, W. J., Heise, J., Helmer, R. L., Horne, D., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Hussain, A. S. M., Iida, T., Inácio, A. S., Jackson, M., Jelley, N. A., Jillings, C. J., Jones, C., Jones, P. G., Kamdin, K., Kaptanoglu, T., Kaspar, J., Keeter, K., Kefelian, C., Khaghani, P., Kippenbrock, L., Klein, J. R., Knapik, R., Kofron, J., Kormos, L. L., Korte, S., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupova, T., Labe, K., Lafleur, F., Lam, I., Lan, C., Land, B. J., Lane, R., Langrock, S., LaTorre, A., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Lefeuvre, G. M., Leming, E. J., Li, A., Lidgard, J., Liggins, B., Lin, Y. H., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maguire, S., Maio, A., Majumdar, K., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., Marzec, E., Mastbaum, A., Mauel, J., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mekarski, P., Meyer, M., Miller, C., Mills, C., Mlejnek, M., Mony, E., Morton-Blake, I., Mottram, M. J., Nae, S., Nirkko, M., Nolan, L. J., Novikov, V. M., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, E., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Parnell, M. J., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pershing, T., Petriw, Z., Petzoldt, J., Pickard, L., Pracsovics, D., Prior, G., Prouty, J. C., Quirk, S., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Robertson, A., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Rost, P. M., Rumleskie, J., Schumaker, M. A., Schwendener, M. H., Scislowski, D., Secrest, J., Seddighin, M., Segui, L., Seibert, S., Semenec, I., Shaker, F., Shantz, T., Sharma, M. K., Shokair, T. M., Sibley, L., Sinclair, J. R., Singh, K., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Strait, M., Stringer, M. I., Svoboda, R., Sörensen, A., Tam, B., Tatar, J., Tian, L., Tolich, N., Tseng, J., Tseung, H. W. C., Turner, E., Van Berg, R., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., von Krosigk, B., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walker, J. M. G., Walker, M., Walton, S. C., Wang, J., Ward, M., Wasalski, O., Waterfield, J., Weigand, J. J., White, R. F., Wilson, J. R., Winchester, T. J., Woosaree, P., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yeh, M., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., Zhao, T., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: 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 compatible with acrylic and has a competitive light yield to pre-existing liquid scintillators while conferring other advantages including longer attenuation lengths, superior safety characteristics, chemical simplicity, ease of handling, and logistical availability. Its properties have been extensively characterized and are presented here. This liquid scintillator is now used in several neutrino physics experiments in addition to SNO+., Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2020
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17. Optical calibration of the SNO+ detector in the water phase with deployed sources

Author: Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Barão, F, Barros, N, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Boulay, M, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Caravaca, J, Chen, M, Chkvorets, O, Cleveland, B, Cookman, D, Corning, J, Cox, MA, Deluce, C, Depatie, MM, Di Lodovico, F, Dittmer, J, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Fischer, V, Ford, R, Frankiewicz, K, Gaur, A, Gilje, K, González-Reina, OI, Gooding, D, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Hartnell, J, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hu, J, Hunt-Stokes, R, Hussain, SMA, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaptanoglu, T, Khaghani, P, Khan, H, Klein, JR, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupová, T, Lam, I, Land, BJ, LaTorre, A, Lawson, I, Lebanowski, L, Lefebvre, C, Li, A, Lidgard, J, Lin, YH, Liu, Y, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Meyer, M, Mills, C, Morton-Blake, I, Nae, S, Nirkko, M, Nolan, LJ, O'Keeffe, HM, Gann, GD Orebi, Page, J, Parker, W, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pershing, T, Pickard, L, Prior, G, Ravi, P, Reichold, A, Riccetto, S, Richardson, R, Rigan, M, Rose, J, Rumleskie, J, Semenec, I, Shaker, F, Sharma, MK, Skensved, P, and Smiley, M
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Analysis and statistical methods, Cherenkov detectors, Detector alignment and calibration methods, Neutrino detectors, Engineering, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Physical sciences
Abstract: 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, Sudbury, Canada. The detector acquired data for two years as a pure water Cherenkov detector, starting in May 2017. During this period, the optical properties of the detector were measured in situ using a deployed light diffusing sphere, with the goal of improving the detector model and the energy response systematic uncertainties. The measured parameters included the water attenuation coefficients, effective attenuation coefficients for the acrylic vessel, and the angular response of the photomultiplier tubes and their surrounding light concentrators, all across different wavelengths. The calibrated detector model was validated using a deployed tagged gamma source, which showed a 0.6% variation in energy scale across the primary target volume.
Published: 2021

18. Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator

Author: Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Anselmo, L, Arushanova, E, Asahi, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Back, AR, Barnard, Z, Barros, N, Bartlett, D, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Bonventre, R, Boulay, M, Braid, D, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Caravaca, J, Carvalho, J, Cavalli, L, Chauhan, D, Chen, M, Chkvorets, O, Clark, KJ, Cleveland, B, Cookman, D, Connors, C, Coulter, IT, Cox, MA, Cressy, D, Dai, X, Darrach, C, Davis-Purcell, B, Deluce, C, Depatie, MM, Descamps, F, Dittmer, J, Di Lodovico, F, Duhaime, N, Duncan, F, Dunger, J, Earle, AD, Fabris, D, Falk, E, Farrugia, A, Fatemighomi, N, Fischer, V, Fletcher, E, Ford, R, Frankiewicz, K, Gagnon, N, Gaur, A, Gilje, K, González-Reina, OI, Gooding, D, Gorel, P, Graham, K, Grant, C, Grove, J, Grullon, S, Guillian, E, Hall, S, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Hans, S, Hartnell, J, Harvey, P, Hedayatipour, M, Heintzelman, WJ, Heise, J, Helmer, RL, Horne, D, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Hussain, SMA, Iida, T, Inácio, AS, Jackson, CM, Jelley, NA, Jillings, CJ, Jones, C, Jones, PG, Kamdin, K, Kaptanoglu, T, Kaspar, J, Keeter, K, Kefelian, C, Khaghani, P, Kippenbrock, L, Klein, JR, Knapik, R, Kofron, J, Kormos, LL, Korte, S, and Krar, B
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Physical Sciences, Double-beta decay detectors, Neutrino detectors, Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Engineering, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Physical sciences
Abstract: 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 compatible with acrylic and has a competitive light yield to pre-existing liquid scintillators while conferring other advantages including longer attenuation lengths, superior safety characteristics, chemical simplicity, ease of handling, and logistical availability. Its properties have been extensively characterized and are presented here. This liquid scintillator is now used in several neutrino physics experiments in addition to SNO+.
Published: 2021

19. Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase

Author: Collaboration, The SNO, Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Barros, N., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Bonventre, R., Boulay, M., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Caravaca, J., Chauhan, D., Chen, M., Chkvorets, O., Cleveland, B., Cox, M. A., Depatie, M. M., Dittmer, J., Di Lodovico, F., Earle, A. D., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Fischer, V., Fletcher, E., Ford, R., Frankiewicz, K., Gilje, K., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Hans, S., Hartnell, J., Harvey, P., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Horne, D., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Hussain, A. S. M., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaptanoglu, T., Khaghani, P., Klein, J. R., Knapik, R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupova, T., Lam, I., Land, B. J., LaTorre, A., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Leming, E. J., Li, A., Lidgard, J., Liggins, B., Lin, Y. H., Liu, Y., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maguire, S., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., Marzec, E., Mastbaum, A., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mekarski, P., Meyer, M., Mills, C., Morton-Blake, I., Nae, S., Nirkko, M., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Parnell, M. J., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pershing, T., Pickard, L., Prior, G., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Rost, P. M., Rumleskie, J., Semenec, I., Shaker, F., Sharma, M. K., Singh, K., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Stringer, M. I., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tian, L., Tseng, J., Turner, E., Van Berg, R., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walton, S. C., Wang, J., Ward, M., Weigand, J. J., Wilson, J. R., Woosaree, P., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yeh, M., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV $\gamma$ produced by neutron capture on hydrogen have been made using an Am-Be calibration source, for which a large fraction of emitted neutrons are produced simultaneously with a 4.4-MeV $\gamma$. Analysis of the delayed coincidence between the 4.4-MeV $\gamma$ and the 2.2-MeV capture $\gamma$ revealed a neutron detection efficiency that is centered around 50% and varies at the level of 1% across the inner region of the detector, which to our knowledge is the highest efficiency achieved among pure water Cherenkov detectors. In addition, the neutron capture time constant was measured and converted to a thermal neutron-proton capture cross section of $336.3^{+1.2}_{-1.5}$ mb.
Published: 2020
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20. First demonstration of ionization cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Author: Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y. P., Tang, J. Y., Li, Z. H., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., Palladino, V., de Bari, A., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Sakamoto, H., Sato, A., Ishimoto, S., Chung, M., Sung, C. K., Filthaut, F., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Jovancevic, N., Nikolov, J., Vretenar, M., Ramberger, S., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Dumbell, K., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Brown, C., Courthold, M., Govans, J., Hills, M., Lagrange, J. -B., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Tucker, M., Watson, S., Wilson, A., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Gamet, R., Cooke, P., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Franchini, P., Hunt, C., Jurj, P. B., Kurup, A., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Pec, V., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Boyd, S., Greis, J. R., Lord, T., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Ellis, M., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Adey, D., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Hanlet, P., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Lambert, A., Li, D., Luo, T., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Freemire, B., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Snopok, P., Torun, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Summers, D. J., Coney, L. R., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: High-brightness muon beams of energy comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators have yet to be realised. Such beams have the potential to carry the search for new phenomena in lepton-antilepton collisions to extremely high energy and also to provide uniquely well-characterised neutrino beams. A muon beam may be created through the decay of pions produced in the interaction of a proton beam with a target. To produce a high-brightness beam from such a source requires that the phase space volume occupied by the muons be reduced (cooled). Ionization cooling is the novel technique by which it is proposed to cool the beam. The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment collaboration has constructed a section of an ionization cooling cell and used it to provide the first demonstration of ionization cooling. We present these ground-breaking measurements., Comment: 19 pages and 6 figures
Published: 2019

21. Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase

Author: Anderson, MR, Andringa, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Barros, N, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Bonventre, R, Boulay, M, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Caravaca, J, Chauhan, D, Chen, M, Chkvorets, O, Cleveland, B, Cox, MA, Depatie, MM, Dittmer, J, Di Lodovico, F, Earle, AD, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Fischer, V, Fletcher, E, Ford, R, Frankiewicz, K, Gilje, K, Gooding, D, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Hans, S, Hartnell, J, Harvey, P, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Horne, D, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Hussain, ASM, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaptanoglu, T, Khaghani, P, Klein, JR, Knapik, R, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupova, T, Lam, I, Land, BJ, Latorre, A, Lawson, I, Lebanowski, L, Leming, EJ, Li, A, Lidgard, J, Liggins, B, Lin, YH, Liu, Y, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maguire, S, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, Marzec, E, Mastbaum, A, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Mekarski, P, Meyer, M, Mills, C, Morton-Blake, I, Nae, S, Nirkko, M, Nolan, LJ, O'Keeffe, HM, Orebi Gann, GD, Parnell, MJ, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pershing, T, Pickard, L, Prior, G, Reichold, A, Riccetto, S, Richardson, R, Rigan, M, Rose, J, and Rosero, R
Subjects: physics.ins-det, hep-ex, nucl-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract: The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV γ's produced by neutron capture on hydrogen were made using an Am-Be calibration source, for which a large fraction of emitted neutrons are produced simultaneously with a 4.4-MeV γ. Analysis of the delayed coincidence between the 4.4-MeV γ and the 2.2-MeV capture γ revealed a neutron detection efficiency that is centered around 50% and varies at the level of 1% across the inner region of the detector, which to our knowledge is the highest efficiency achieved among pure water Cherenkov detectors. In addition, the neutron capture time constant was measured and converted to a thermal neutron-proton capture cross section of 336.3-1.5+1.2mb.
Published: 2020

22. Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector

Author: Collaboration, SNO, Anderson, M., Andringa, S., Arushanova, E., Asahi, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Back, A. R., Barnard, Z., Barros, N., Bartlett, D., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Bonventre, R., Boulay, M., Braid, D., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Caravaca, J., Carvalho, J., Cavalli, L., Chauhan, D., Chen, M., Chkvorets, O., Clark, K. J., Cleveland, B., Connors, C., Coulter, I. T., Cressy, D., Dai, X., Darrach, C., Davis-Purcell, B., Depatie, M. M., Descamps, F., Di Lodovico, F., Duhaime, N., Duncan, F., Dunger, J., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Fischer, V., Fletcher, E., Ford, R., Gagnon, N., Gilje, K., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, C., Grove, J., Grullon, S., Guillian, E., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Hans, S., Hartnell, J., Harvey, P., Hedayatipour, M., Heintzelman, W. J., Heise, J., Helmer, R. L., Hernández-Hernández, J. L., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Iida, T., Inácio, A. S., Jackson, C. M., Jelley, N. A., Jillings, C. J., Jones, C., Jones, P. G., Kamdin, K., Kaptanoglu, T., Kaspar, J., Keeter, K., Kefelian, C., Khaghani, P., Kippenbrock, L., Klein, J. R., Knapik, R., Kofron, J., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupova, T., Labe, K., Lam, I., Lan, C., Land, B. J., Lane, R., Langrock, S., LaTorre, A., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Lefeuvre, G. M., Leming, E. J., Li, A., Lidgard, J., Liggins, B., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maguire, S., Maio, A., Majumdar, K., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., Marzec, E., Mastbaum, A., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., McMillan, J. E., Mekarski, P., Meyer, M., Miller, C., Mlejnek, M., Mony, E., Morton-Blake, I., Mottram, M. J., Nae, S., Nirkko, M., Novikov, V., O'Keeffe, H. M., O'Sullivan, E., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Parnell, M. J., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pershing, T., Petriw, Z., Pickard, L., Pracsovics, D., Prior, G., Prouty, J. C., Quirk, S., Reichold, A., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Robertson, A., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Rost, P. M., Rumleskie, J., Schumaker, M. A., Schwendener, M. H., Scislowski, D., Secrest, J., Seddighin, M., Segui, L., Seibert, S., Semenec, I., Shantz, T., Shokair, T. M., Sibley, L., Sinclair, J. R., Singh, K., Skensved, P., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Strait, M., Stringer, M. I., Svoboda, R., Sörensen, A., Tam, B., Tatar, J., Tian, L., Tolich, N., Tseng, J., Tseung, H. W. C., Turner, E., Van Berg, R., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., von Krosigk, B., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Walker, J. M. G., Walker, M., Wang, J., Wasalski, O., Waterfield, J., Weigand, J. J., White, R. F., Wilson, J. R., Winchester, T. J., Woosaree, P., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yeh, M., Zhao, T., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: 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 water phase of SNO+. However, such decays within the oxygen nucleus would produce an excited daughter that would subsequently de-excite, often emitting detectable gamma rays. A search for such gamma rays yields limits of $2.5 \times 10^{29}$ y at 90% Bayesian credibility level (with a prior uniform in rate) for the partial lifetime of the neutron, and $3.6 \times 10^{29}$ y for the partial lifetime of the proton, the latter a 70% improvement on the previous limit from SNO. We also present partial lifetime limits for invisible dinucleon modes of $1.3\times 10^{28}$ y for $nn$, $2.6\times 10^{28}$ y for $pn$ and $4.7\times 10^{28}$ y for $pp$, an improvement over existing limits by close to three orders of magnitude for the latter two., Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2018
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23. Measurement of the $^8$B Solar Neutrino Flux in SNO+ with Very Low Backgrounds

Author: Collaboration, The SNO, Anderson, M., Andringa, S., Asahi, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Barros, N., Bartlett, D., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Bonventre, R., Boulay, M., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Caravaca, J., Chauhan, D., Chen, M., Chkvorets, O., Cleveland, B., Connors, C., Coulter, I. T., Depatie, M. M., Di Lodovico, F., Duncan, F., Dunger, J., Falk, E., Fischer, V., Fletcher, E., Ford, R., Gagnon, N., Gilje, K., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Hans, S., Hartnell, J., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hernández-Hernández, J. L., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaptanoglu, T., Khaghani, P., Klein, J. R., Knapik, R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupova, T., Lam, I., Land, B. J., Lane, R., LaTorre, A., Lawson, I., Lebanowski, L., Leming, E. J., Li, A., Lidgard, J., Liggins, B., Liu, Y., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maguire, S., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., Marzec, E., Mastbaum, A., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mekarski, P., Meyer, M., Mlejnek, M., Morton-Blake, I., Nae, S., Nirkko, M., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Parnell, M. J., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pershing, T., Pickard, L., Pracsovics, D., Prior, G., Reichold, A., Richardson, R., Rigan, M., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Rumleskie, J., Semenec, I., Singh, K., Skensved, P., Stringer, M. I., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tian, L., Tseng, J., Turner, E., Van Berg, R., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Wang, J., Weigand, J. J., Wilson, J. R., Woosaree, P., Wright, A., Yanez, J. P., Yeh, M., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A measurement of the $^8$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 MeV the dataset is an extremely pure sample of solar neutrino elastic scattering events, owing primarily to the detector's deep location, allowing an accurate measurement with relatively little exposure. In that energy region the best fit background rate is $0.25^{+0.09}_{-0.07}$ events/kt-day, significantly lower than the measured solar neutrino event rate in that energy range, which is $1.03^{+0.13}_{-0.12}$ events/kt-day. Also using data below this threshold, down to 5 MeV, fits of the solar neutrino event direction yielded an observed flux of $2.53^{+0.31}_{-0.28}$(stat.)$^{+0.13}_{-0.10}$(syst.)$\times10^6$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, assuming no neutrino oscillations. This rate is consistent with matter enhanced neutrino oscillations and measurements from other experiments., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2018
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24. MAUS: The MICE Analysis User Software

Author: Asfandiyarov, R., Bayes, R., Blackmore, V., Bogomilov, M., Colling, D., Dobbs, A. J., Drielsma, F., Drews, M., Ellis, M., Fedorov, M., Franchini, P., Gardener, R., Greis, J. R., Hanlet, P. M., Heidt, C., Hunt, C., Kafka, G., Karadzhov, Y., Kurup, A., Kyberd, P., Littlefield, M., Liu, A., Long, K., Maletic, D., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Mohayai, T., Nebrensky, J. J., Nugent, J. C., Overton, E., Pec, V., Pidcott, C. E., Rajaram, D., Rayner, M., Reid, I. D., Rogers, C. T., Santos, E., Savic, M., Taylor, I., Torun, Y., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, M. A., Verguilov, V., Walaron, K., Winter, M., and Wilbur, S.
Subjects: Physics - Computational Physics
Abstract: The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration has developed the MICE Analysis User Software (MAUS) to simulate and analyze experimental data. It serves as the primary codebase for the experiment, providing for offline batch simulation and reconstruction as well as online data quality checks. The software provides both traditional particle-physics functionalities such as track reconstruction and particle identification, and accelerator physics functions, such as calculating transfer matrices and emittances. The code design is object orientated, but has a top-level structure based on the Map-Reduce model. This allows for parallelization to support live data reconstruction during data-taking operations. MAUS allows users to develop in either Python or C++ and provides APIs for both. Various software engineering practices from industry are also used to ensure correct and maintainable code, including style, unit and integration tests, continuous integration and load testing, code reviews, and distributed version control. The software framework and the simulation and reconstruction capabilities are described.
Published: 2018
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25. First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Author: The MICE Collaboration, Adams, D., Adey, D., Asfandiyarov, R., Barber, G., de Bari, A., Bayes, R., Bayliss, V., Bertoni, R., Blackmore, V., Blondel, A., Boehm, J., Bogomilov, M., Bonesini, M., Booth, C. N., Bowring, D., Boyd, S., Bradshaw, T. W., Bross, A. D., Brown, C., Coney, L., Charnley, G., Chatzitheodoridis, G. T., Chignoli, F., Chung, M., Cline, D., Cobb, J. H., Colling, D., Collomb, N., Cooke, P., Courthold, M., Cremaldi, L. M., DeMello, A., Dick, A. J., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Drielsma, F., Dumbell, K., Ellis, M., Filthaut, F., Franchini, P., Freemire, B., Gallagher, A., Gamet, R., Gardener, R. B. S., Gourlay, S., Grant, A., Greis, J. R., Griffiths, S., Hanlet, P., Hanson, G. G., Hartnett, T., Heidt, C., Hodgson, P., Hunt, C., Ishimoto, S., Jokovic, D., Jurj, P. B., Kaplan, D. M., Karadzhov, Y., Klier, A., Kuno, Y., Kurup, A., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J-B., Langlands, J., Lau, W., Li, D., Li, Z., Liu, A., Long, K., Lord, T., Macwaters, C., Maletic, D., Martlew, B., Martyniak, J., Mazza, R., Middleton, S., Mohayai, T. A., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Nebrensky, J. J., Neuffer, D., Nichols, A., Nugent, J. C., Oates, A., Orestano, D., Overton, E., Owens, P., Palladino, V., Palmer, M., Pasternak, J., Pec, V., Pidcott, C., Popovic, M., Preece, R., Prestemon, S., Rajaram, D., Ricciardi, S., Robinson, M., Rogers, C., Ronald, K., Rubinov, P., Sakamoto, H., Sanders, D. A., Sato, A., Savic, M., Snopok, P., Smith, P. J., Soler, F. J. P., Song, Y., Stanley, T., Stokes, G., Suezaki, V., Summers, D. J., Sung, C. K., Tang, J., Tarrant, J., Taylor, I., Tortora, L., Torun, Y., Tsenov, R., Tucker, M., Uchida, M. A., Virostek, S., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Warburton, P., Wilbur, S., Wilson, A., Witte, H., White, C., Whyte, C. G., Yang, X., Young, A. R., and Zisman, M.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam at a future neutrino factory or muon collider. The emittance is measured from an ensemble of muons assembled from those that pass through the experiment. A pure muon ensemble is selected using a particle-identification system that can reject efficiently both pions and electrons. The position and momentum of each muon are measured using a high-precision scintillating-fibre tracker in a 4\,T solenoidal magnetic field. This paper presents the techniques used to reconstruct the phase-space distributions and reports the first particle-by-particle measurement of the emittance of the MICE Muon Beam as a function of muon-beam momentum.
Published: 2018
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26. Neutron detection in the SNO+ water phase

Author: Liu, Y., Andringa, S., Auty, D., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Caden, E., Grant, C., Grove, J., Krar, B., LaTorre, A., Lebanowski, L., Lidgard, J., Maneira, J., Mekarski, P., Nae, S., Pershing, T., Semenec, I., Singh, K., Skensved, P., Tam, B., and Wright, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: SNO+ is a multipurpose neutrino experiment located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. The detector started taking physics data in May 2017 and is currently completing its first phase, as a pure water Cherenkov detector. The low trigger threshold of the SNO+ detector allows for a substantial neutron detection efficiency, as observed with a deployed ^{241}Am^{9}Be source. Using a statistical analysis of one hour AmBe calibration data, we report a neutron capture constant of 208.2 + 2.1(stat.) us and a lower bound of the neutron detection efficiency of 46% at the center of the detector., Comment: proceeding for Neutrino 2018
Published: 2018
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27. Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Author: Bogomilov, M, Tsenov, R, Vankova-Kirilova, G, Song, YP, Tang, JY, Li, ZH, Bertoni, R, Bonesini, M, Chignoli, F, Mazza, R, Palladino, V, de Bari, A, Orestano, D, Tortora, L, Kuno, Y, Sakamoto, H, Sato, A, Ishimoto, S, Chung, M, Sung, CK, Filthaut, F, Jokovic, D, Maletic, D, Savic, M, Jovancevic, N, Nikolov, J, Vretenar, M, Ramberger, S, Asfandiyarov, R, Blondel, A, Drielsma, F, Karadzhov, Y, Boyd, S, Greis, JR, Lord, T, Pidcott, C, Taylor, I, Charnley, G, Collomb, N, Dumbell, K, Gallagher, A, Grant, A, Griffiths, S, Hartnett, T, Martlew, B, Moss, A, Muir, A, Mullacrane, I, Oates, A, Owens, P, Stokes, G, Warburton, P, White, C, Adams, D, Bayliss, V, Boehm, J, Bradshaw, TW, Brown, C, Courthold, M, Govans, J, Hills, M, Lagrange, J-B, Macwaters, C, Nichols, A, Preece, R, Ricciardi, S, Rogers, C, Stanley, T, Tarrant, J, Tucker, M, Watson, S, Wilson, A, Bayes, R, Nugent, JC, Soler, FJP, Chatzitheodoridis, GT, Dick, AJ, Ronald, K, Whyte, CG, Young, AR, Gamet, R, Cooke, P, Blackmore, VJ, Colling, D, Dobbs, A, Dornan, P, Franchini, P, Hunt, C, Jurj, PB, Kurup, A, Long, K, Martyniak, J, Middleton, S, Pasternak, J, Uchida, MA, Cobb, JH, Booth, CN, Hodgson, P, Langlands, J, and Overton, E
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, MICE collaboration, ATAP-2020, ATAP-GENERAL, ATAP-BACI, General Science & Technology
Abstract: The use of accelerated beams of electrons, protons or ions has furthered the development of nearly every scientific discipline. However, high-energy muon beams of equivalent quality have not yet been delivered. Muon beams can be created through the decay of pions produced by the interaction of a proton beam with a target. Such 'tertiary' beams have much lower brightness than those created by accelerating electrons, protons or ions. High-brightness muon beams comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators could facilitate the study of lepton-antilepton collisions at extremely high energies and provide well characterized neutrino beams1-6. Such muon beams could be realized using ionization cooling, which has been proposed to increase muon-beam brightness7,8. Here we report the realization of ionization cooling, which was confirmed by the observation of an increased number of low-amplitude muons after passage of the muon beam through an absorber, as well as an increase in the corresponding phase-space density. The simulated performance of the ionization cooling system is consistent with the measured data, validating designs of the ionization cooling channel in which the cooling process is repeated to produce a substantial cooling effect9-11. The results presented here are an important step towards achieving the muon-beam quality required to search for phenomena at energy scales beyond the reach of the Large Hadron Collider at a facility of equivalent or reduced footprint6.
Published: 2020

28. First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment

Author: Adams, D, Adey, D, Asfandiyarov, R, Barber, G, de Bari, A, Bayes, R, Bayliss, V, Bertoni, R, Blackmore, V, Blondel, A, Boehm, J, Bogomilov, M, Bonesini, M, Booth, CN, Bowring, D, Boyd, S, Bradshaw, TW, Bross, AD, Brown, C, Charnley, G, Chatzitheodoridis, GT, Chignoli, F, Chung, M, Cline, D, Cobb, JH, Colling, D, Collomb, N, Cooke, P, Courthold, M, Cremaldi, LM, DeMello, A, Dick, AJ, Dobbs, A, Dornan, P, Drielsma, F, Dumbell, K, Ellis, M, Filthaut, F, Franchini, P, Freemire, B, Gallagher, A, Gamet, R, Gardener, RBS, Gourlay, S, Grant, A, Greis, JR, Griffiths, S, Hanlet, P, Hanson, GG, Hartnett, T, Heidt, C, Hodgson, P, Hunt, C, Ishimoto, S, Jokovic, D, Jurj, PB, Kaplan, DM, Karadzhov, Y, Klier, A, Kuno, Y, Kurup, A, Kyberd, P, Lagrange, J-B, Langlands, J, Lau, W, Li, D, Li, Z, Liu, A, Long, K, Lord, T, Macwaters, C, Maletic, D, Martlew, B, Martyniak, J, Mazza, R, Middleton, S, Mohayai, TA, Moss, A, Muir, A, Mullacrane, I, Nebrensky, JJ, Neuffer, D, Nichols, A, Nugent, JC, Oates, A, Orestano, D, Overton, E, Owens, P, Palladino, V, Palmer, M, Pasternak, J, Pec, V, Pidcott, C, Popovic, M, Preece, R, Prestemon, S, Rajaram, D, Ricciardi, S, Robinson, M, and Rogers, C
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, physics.acc-ph, physics.ins-det, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical sciences, Atomic, molecular and optical physics, Particle and high energy physics
Abstract: The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam at a future neutrino factory or muon collider. The emittance is measured from an ensemble of muons assembled from those that pass through the experiment. A pure muon ensemble is selected using a particle-identification system that can reject efficiently both pions and electrons. The position and momentum of each muon are measured using a high-precision scintillating-fibre tracker in a 4 T solenoidal magnetic field. This paper presents the techniques used to reconstruct the phase-space distributions in the upstream tracking detector and reports the first particle-by-particle measurement of the emittance of the MICE Muon Beam as a function of muon-beam momentum.
Published: 2019

29. Baby MIND: A magnetized segmented neutrino detector for the WAGASCI experiment

Author: Antonova, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Bayes, R., Benoit, P., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bross, A., Cadoux, F., Cervera, A., Chikuma, N., Dudarev, A., Ekelöf, T., Favre, Y., Fedotov, S., Hallsjö, S-P., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Khabibullin, M., Khotyantsev, A., Kleymenova, A., Koga, T., Kostin, A., Kudenko, Y., Likhacheva, V., Martinez, B., Matev, R., Medvedeva, M., Mefodiev, A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Nessi, M., Nicola, L., Noah, E., Ovsiannikova, T., Da Silva, H. Pais, Parsa, S., Rayner, M., Rolando, G., Shaykhiev, A., Simion, P., Soler, F. J. P., Suvorov, S., Tsenov, R., Kate, H. Ten, Vankova-Kirilova, G., and Yershov, N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment in Japan designed to study various parameters of neutrino oscillations. A near detector complex (ND280) is located 280~m downstream of the production target and measures neutrino beam parameters before any oscillations occur. ND280's measurements are used to predict the number and spectra of neutrinos in the Super-Kamiokande detector at the distance of 295~km. The difference in the target material between the far (water) and near (scintillator, hydrocarbon) detectors leads to the main non-cancelling systematic uncertainty for the oscillation analysis. In order to reduce this uncertainty a new WAter-Grid-And-SCintillator detector (WAGASCI) has been developed. A magnetized iron neutrino detector (Baby MIND) will be used to measure momentum and charge identification of the outgoing muons from charged current interactions. The Baby MIND modules are composed of magnetized iron plates and long plastic scintillator bars read out at the both ends with wavelength shifting fibers and silicon photomultipliers. The front-end electronics board has been developed to perform the readout and digitization of the signals from the scintillator bars. Detector elements were tested with cosmic rays and in the PS beam at CERN. The obtained results are presented in this paper., Comment: In new version: modified both plots of Fig.1 and added one sentence in the introduction part explaining Baby MIND role in WAGASCI experiment, added information for the affiliations
Published: 2017
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30. Baby MIND Experiment Construction Status

Author: Antonova, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Bayes, R, Benoit, P., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bross, A., Cadoux, F., Cervera, A., Chikuma, N., Dudarev, A., Ekelöf, T., Favre, Y., Fedotov, S., Hallsjö, S-P., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Khabibullin, M., Khotyantsev, A., Kleymenova, A., Koga, T., Kostin, A., Kudenko, Y., Likhacheva, V., Martinez, B., Matev, R., Medvedeva, M., Mefodiev, A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Nessi, M., Nicola, L., Noah, E., Ovsiannikova, T., Da Silva, H. Pais, Parsa, S., Rayner, M., Rolando, G., Shaykhiev, A, Simion, P., Soler, F. J. P., Suvorov, S., Tsenov, R., Kate, H. Ten, Vankova-Kirilova, G., and Yershov, N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: Baby MIND is a magnetized iron neutrino detector, with novel design features, and is planned to serve as a downstream magnetized muon spectrometer for the WAGASCI experiment on the T2K neutrino beam line in Japan. One of the main goals of this experiment is to reduce systematic uncertainties relevant to CP-violation searches, by measuring the neutrino contamination in the anti-neutrino beam mode of T2K. Baby MIND is currently being constructed at CERN, and is planned to be operational in Japan in October 2017., Comment: Poster presented at NuPhys2016 (London, 12-14 December 2016). 4 pages, LaTeX, 7 figures
Published: 2017

31. Baby MIND: A magnetised spectrometer for the WAGASCI experiment

Author: Antonova, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Bayes, R, Benoit, P., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Cross, A., Cadoux, F., Cervera, A., Chikuma, N., Dudarev, A., Ekelöf, T., Favre, Y., Fedotov, S., Hallsjö, S-P., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Khabibullin, M., Khotyantsev, A., Kleymenova, A., Koga, T., Kostin, A., Kudenko, Y., Likhacheva, V., Martinez, B., Matev, R., Medvedeva, M., Mefodiev, A., Minamino, A., Mineev, O., Nessi, M., Nicola, L., Noah, E., Ovsiannikova, T., Da Silva, H. Pais, Parsa, S., Rayner, M., Rolando, G., Shaykhiev, A, Simion, P., Soler, F. J. P., Suvorov, S., Tsenov, R., Kate, H. Ten, Vankova-Kirilova, G., and Yershov, N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The WAGASCI experiment being built at the J-PARC neutrino beam line will measure the difference in cross sections from neutrinos interacting with a water and scintillator targets, in order to constrain neutrino cross sections, essential for the T2K neutrino oscillation measurements. A prototype Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND), called Baby MIND, is being constructed at CERN to act as a magnetic spectrometer behind the main WAGASCI target to be able to measure the charge and momentum of the outgoing muon from neutrino charged current interactions., Comment: Poster presented at NuPhys2016 (London, 12-14 December 2016). Title + 4 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures
Published: 2017

32. Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector

Author: Anderson, M, Andringa, S, Arushanova, E, Asahi, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Back, AR, Barnard, Z, Barros, N, Bartlett, D, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Bonventre, R, Boulay, M, Braid, D, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Caravaca, J, Carvalho, J, Cavalli, L, Chauhan, D, Chen, M, Chkvorets, O, Clark, KJ, Cleveland, B, Connors, C, Coulter, IT, Cressy, D, Dai, X, Darrach, C, Davis-Purcell, B, Depatie, MM, Descamps, F, Di Lodovico, F, Duhaime, N, Duncan, F, Dunger, J, Falk, E, Fatemighomi, N, Fischer, V, Fletcher, E, Ford, R, Gagnon, N, Gilje, K, Gorel, P, Graham, K, Grant, C, Grove, J, Grullon, S, Guillian, E, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Hans, S, Hartnell, J, Harvey, P, Hedayatipour, M, Heintzelman, WJ, Heise, J, Helmer, RL, Hernández-Hernández, JL, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Iida, T, Inácio, AS, Jackson, CM, Jelley, NA, Jillings, CJ, Jones, C, Jones, PG, Kamdin, K, Kaptanoglu, T, Kaspar, J, Keeter, K, Kefelian, C, Khaghani, P, Kippenbrock, L, Klein, JR, Knapik, R, Kofron, J, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupova, T, Labe, K, Lam, I, Lan, C, Land, BJ, Lane, R, Langrock, S, LaTorre, A, Lawson, I, Lebanowski, L, Lefeuvre, GM, Leming, EJ, and Li, A
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, hep-ex, physics.ins-det
Abstract: 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 water phase of SNO+. However, such decays within the oxygen nucleus would produce an excited daughter that would subsequently deexcite, often emitting detectable gamma rays. A search for such gamma rays yields limits of 2.5×1029 y at 90% Bayesian credibility level (with a prior uniform in rate) for the partial lifetime of the neutron, and 3.6×1029 y for the partial lifetime of the proton, the latter a 70% improvement on the previous limit from SNO. We also present partial lifetime limits for invisible dinucleon modes of 1.3×1028 y for nn, 2.6×1028 y for pn and 4.7×1028 y for pp, an improvement over existing limits by close to 3 orders of magnitude for the latter two.
Published: 2019

33. Measurement of the B8 solar neutrino flux in SNO+ with very low backgrounds

Author: Anderson, M, Andringa, S, Asahi, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Barros, N, Bartlett, D, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Bonventre, R, Boulay, M, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Caravaca, J, Chauhan, D, Chen, M, Chkvorets, O, Cleveland, B, Connors, C, Coulter, IT, Depatie, MM, Di Lodovico, F, Duncan, F, Dunger, J, Falk, E, Fischer, V, Fletcher, E, Ford, R, Gagnon, N, Gilje, K, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Hans, S, Hartnell, J, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hernández-Hernández, JL, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaptanoglu, T, Khaghani, P, Klein, JR, Knapik, R, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupova, T, Lam, I, Land, BJ, Lane, R, LaTorre, A, Lawson, I, Lebanowski, L, Leming, EJ, Li, A, Lidgard, J, Liggins, B, Liu, Y, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maguire, S, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, Marzec, E, Mastbaum, A, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Mekarski, P, Meyer, M, Mlejnek, M, Morton-Blake, I, Nae, S, Nirkko, M, O’Keeffe, HM, Gann, GD Orebi, Parnell, MJ, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pershing, T, Pickard, L, Pracsovics, D, Prior, G, Reichold, A, Richardson, R, Rigan, M, Rose, J, Rosero, R, Rumleskie, J, and Semenec, I
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, hep-ex
Abstract: A measurement of the B8 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 MeV the dataset is an extremely pure sample of solar neutrino elastic scattering events, owing primarily to the detector's deep location, allowing an accurate measurement with relatively little exposure. In that energy region the best fit background rate is 0.25-0.07+0.09 events/kt-day, significantly lower than the measured solar neutrino event rate in that energy range, which is 1.03-0.12+0.13 events/kt-day. Also using data below this threshold, down to 5 MeV, fits of the solar neutrino event direction yielded an observed flux of 2.53-0.28+0.31(stat)-0.10+0.13(syst)×106 cm-2 s-1, assuming no neutrino oscillations. This rate is consistent with matter enhanced neutrino oscillations and measurements from other experiments.
Published: 2019

34. Measurement of the B 8 solar neutrino flux in SNO+ with very low backgrounds

Author: Anderson, M, Andringa, S, Asahi, S, Askins, M, Auty, DJ, Barros, N, Bartlett, D, Barão, F, Bayes, R, Beier, EW, Bialek, A, Biller, SD, Blucher, E, Bonventre, R, Boulay, M, Caden, E, Callaghan, EJ, Caravaca, J, Chauhan, D, Chen, M, Chkvorets, O, Cleveland, B, Connors, C, Coulter, IT, Depatie, MM, Di Lodovico, F, Duncan, F, Dunger, J, Falk, E, Fischer, V, Fletcher, E, Ford, R, Gagnon, N, Gilje, K, Grant, C, Grove, J, Hallin, AL, Hallman, D, Hans, S, Hartnell, J, Heintzelman, WJ, Helmer, RL, Hernández-Hernández, JL, Hreljac, B, Hu, J, Inácio, AS, Jillings, CJ, Kaptanoglu, T, Khaghani, P, Klein, JR, Knapik, R, Kormos, LL, Krar, B, Kraus, C, Krauss, CB, Kroupova, T, Lam, I, Land, BJ, Lane, R, Latorre, A, Lawson, I, Lebanowski, L, Leming, EJ, Li, A, Lidgard, J, Liggins, B, Liu, Y, Lozza, V, Luo, M, Maguire, S, Maio, A, Manecki, S, Maneira, J, Martin, RD, Marzec, E, Mastbaum, A, McCauley, N, McDonald, AB, Mekarski, P, Meyer, M, Mlejnek, M, Morton-Blake, I, Nae, S, Nirkko, M, O'Keeffe, HM, Orebi Gann, GD, Parnell, MJ, Paton, J, Peeters, SJM, Pershing, T, Pickard, L, Pracsovics, D, Prior, G, Reichold, A, Richardson, R, Rigan, M, Rose, J, Rosero, R, Rumleskie, J, and Semenec, I
Subjects: hep-ex
Abstract: A measurement of the B8 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 MeV the dataset is an extremely pure sample of solar neutrino elastic scattering events, owing primarily to the detector's deep location, allowing an accurate measurement with relatively little exposure. In that energy region the best fit background rate is 0.25-0.07+0.09 events/kt-day, significantly lower than the measured solar neutrino event rate in that energy range, which is 1.03-0.12+0.13 events/kt-day. Also using data below this threshold, down to 5 MeV, fits of the solar neutrino event direction yielded an observed flux of 2.53-0.28+0.31(stat)-0.10+0.13(syst)×106 cm-2 s-1, assuming no neutrino oscillations. This rate is consistent with matter enhanced neutrino oscillations and measurements from other experiments.
Published: 2019

35. Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling

Author: MICE Collaboration, Bogomilov, M., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Song, Y., Tang, J., Li, Z., Bertoni, R., Bonesini, M., Chignoli, F., Mazza, R., Palladino, V., de Bari, A., Cecchet, G., Orestano, D., Tortora, L., Kuno, Y., Ishimoto, S., Filthaut, F., Jokovic, D., Maletic, D., Savic, M., Hansen, O. M., Ramberger, S., Vretenar, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Blondel, A., Drielsma, F., Karadzhov, Y., Charnley, G., Collomb, N., Gallagher, A., Grant, A., Griffiths, S., Hartnett, T., Martlew, B., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Oates, A., Owens, P., Stokes, G., Tucker, M., Warburton, P., White, C., Adams, D., Anderson, R. J., Barclay, P., Bayliss, V., Boehm, J., Bradshaw, T. W., Courthold, M., Dumbell, K., Francis, V., Fry, L., Hayler, T., Hills, M., Lintern, A., Macwaters, C., Nichols, A., Preece, R., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Stanley, T., Tarrant, J., Wilson, A., Watson, S., Bayes, R., Nugent, J. C., Soler, F. J. P., Gamet, R., Barber, G., Blackmore, V. J., Colling, D., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Hunt, C., Kurup, A., Lagrange, J-B., Long, K., Martyniak, J., Middleton, S., Pasternak, J., Uchida, M. A., Cobb, J. H., Lau, W., Booth, C. N., Hodgson, P., Langlands, J., Overton, E., Robinson, M., Smith, P. J., Wilbur, S., Dick, A. J., Ronald, K., Whyte, C. G., Young, A. R., Boyd, S., Franchini, P., Greis, J. R., Pidcott, C., Taylor, I., Gardener, R. B. S., Kyberd, P., Nebrensky, J. J., Palmer, M., Witte, H., Bross, A. D., Bowring, D., Liu, A., Neuffer, D., Popovic, M., Rubinov, P., DeMello, A., Gourlay, S., Li, D., Prestemon, S., Virostek, S., Freemire, B., Hanlet, P., Kaplan, D. M., Mohayai, T. A., Rajaram, D., Snopok, P., Suezaki, V., Torun, Y., Onel, Y., Cremaldi, L. M., Sanders, D. A., Summers, D. J., Hanson, G. G., and Heidt, C.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract: Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at a muon collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) aims to demonstrate ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam at such facilities. In an ionization-cooling channel, the muon beam passes through a material in which it loses energy. The energy lost is then replaced using RF cavities. The combined effect of energy loss and re-acceleration is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling). A major revision of the scope of the project was carried out over the summer of 2014. The revised experiment can deliver a demonstration of ionization cooling. The design of the cooling demonstration experiment will be described together with its predicted cooling performance., Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2017
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36. Lattice design and expected performance of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment demonstration of ionization cooling

Author: Bogomilov, M, Tsenov, R, Vankova-Kirilova, G, Song, Y, Tang, J, Li, Z, Bertoni, R, Bonesini, M, Chignoli, F, Mazza, R, Palladino, V, De Bari, A, Cecchet, G, Orestano, D, Tortora, L, Kuno, Y, Ishimoto, S, Filthaut, F, Jokovic, D, Maletic, D, Savic, M, Hansen, OM, Ramberger, S, Vretenar, M, Asfandiyarov, R, Blondel, A, Drielsma, F, Karadzhov, Y, Charnley, G, Collomb, N, Dumbell, K, Gallagher, A, Grant, A, Griffiths, S, Hartnett, T, Martlew, B, Moss, A, Muir, A, Mullacrane, I, Oates, A, Owens, P, Stokes, G, Warburton, P, White, C, Adams, D, Anderson, RJ, Barclay, P, Bayliss, V, Boehm, J, Bradshaw, TW, Courthold, M, Francis, V, Fry, L, Hayler, T, Hills, M, Lintern, A, Macwaters, C, Nichols, A, Preece, R, Ricciardi, S, Rogers, C, Stanley, T, Tarrant, J, Tucker, M, Wilson, A, Watson, S, Bayes, R, Nugent, JC, Soler, FJP, Gamet, R, Barber, G, Blackmore, VJ, Colling, D, Dobbs, A, Dornan, P, Hunt, C, Kurup, A, Lagrange, JB, Long, K, Martyniak, J, Middleton, S, Pasternak, J, Uchida, MA, Cobb, JH, Lau, W, Booth, CN, Hodgson, P, Langlands, J, Overton, E, Robinson, M, Smith, PJ, Wilbur, S, Dick, AJ, Ronald, K, Whyte, CG, Young, AR, Boyd, S, Franchini, P, Greis, JR, and Pidcott, C
Subjects: physics.acc-ph
Abstract: Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterized neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavor at a neutrino factory and to provide lepton-antilepton collisions at energies of up to several TeV at a muon collider. The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) aims to demonstrate ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to reduce the phase-space volume occupied by the muon beam at such facilities. In an ionization-cooling channel, the muon beam passes through a material in which it loses energy. The energy lost is then replaced using rf cavities. The combined effect of energy loss and reacceleration is to reduce the transverse emittance of the beam (transverse cooling). A major revision of the scope of the project was carried out over the summer of 2014. The revised experiment can deliver a demonstration of ionization cooling. The design of the cooling demonstration experiment will be described together with its predicted cooling performance.
Published: 2017

37. Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam

Author: Adams, D., Alekou, A., Apollonio, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Barber, G., Barclay, P., de Bari, A., Bayes, R., Bayliss, V., Bertoni, R., Blackmore, V. J., Blondel, A., Blot, S., Bogomilov, M., Bonesini, M., Booth, C. N., Bowring, D., Boyd, S., Bradshaw, T. W., Bravar, U., Bross, A. D., Capponi, M., Carlisle, T., Cecchet, G., Charnley, C., Chignoli, F., Cline, D., Cobb, J. H., Colling, G., Collomb, N., Coney, L., Cooke, P., Courthold, M., Cremaldi, L. M., DeMello, A., Dick, A., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Drews, M., Drielsma, F., Filthaut, F., Fitzpatrick, T., Franchini, P., Francis, V., Fry, L., Gallagher, A., Gamet, R., Gardener, R., Gourlay, S., Grant, A., Greis, J. R., Griffiths, S., Hanlet, P., Hansen, O. M., Hanson, G. G., Hart, T. L., Hartnett, T., Hayler, T., Heidt, C., Hills, M., Hodgson, P., Hunt, C., Iaciofano, A., Ishimoto, S., Kafka, G., Kaplan, D. M., Karadzhov, Y., Kim, Y. K., Kuno, Y., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J-B, Langlands, J., Lau, W., Leonova, M., Li, D., Lintern, A., Littlefield, M., Long, K., Luo, T., Macwaters, C., Martlew, B., Martyniak, J., Mazza, R., Middleton, S., Moretti, A., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Nebrensky, J. J., Neuffer, D., Nichols, A., Nicholson, R., Nugent, J. C., Oates, A., Onel, Y., Orestano, D., Overton, E., Owens, P., Palladino, V., Pasternak, J., Pastore, F., Pidcott, C., Popovic, M., Preece, R., Prestemon, S., Rajaram, D., Ramberger, S., Rayner, M. A., Ricciardi, S., Roberts, T. J., Robinson, M., Rogers, C., Ronald, K., Rubinov, P., Rucinski, P., Sakamato, H., Sanders, D. A., Santos, E., Savidge, T., Smith, P. J., Snopok, P., Soler, F. J. P., Speirs, D., Stanley, T., Stokes, G., Summers, D. J., Tarrant, J., Taylor, I., Tortora, L., Torun, Y., Tsenov, R., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, M. A., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Virostek, S., Vretenar, M., Warburton, P., Watson, S., White, C., Whyte, C. G., Wilson, A., Winter, M., Yang, X., Young, A., and Zisman, M.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The measurement of ionization cooling in MICE relies on the selection of a pure sample of muons that traverse the experiment. To make this selection, the MICE Muon Beam is designed to deliver a beam of muons with less than $\sim$1\% contamination. To make the final muon selection, MICE employs a particle-identification (PID) system upstream and downstream of the cooling cell. The PID system includes time-of-flight hodoscopes, threshold-Cherenkov counters and calorimetry. The upper limit for the pion contamination measured in this paper is $f_\pi < 1.4\%$ at 90\% C.L., including systematic uncertainties. Therefore, the MICE Muon Beam is able to meet the stringent pion-contamination requirements of the study of ionization cooling., Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2015
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38. Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam

Author: Adams, D., Alekou, A., Apollonio, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Barber, G., Barclay, P., de Bari, A., Bayes, R., Bayliss, V., Bene, P., Bertoni, R., Blackmore, V. J., Blondel, A., Blot, S., Bogomilov, M., Bonesini, M., Booth, C. N., Bowring, D., Boyd, S., Bradshaw, T. W., Bravar, U., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Capponi, M., Carlisle, T., Cecchet, G., Charnley, C., Chignoli, F., Cline, D., Cobb, J. H., Colling, G., Collomb, N., Coney, L., Cooke, P., Courthold, M., Cremaldi, L. M., Debieux, S., DeMello, A., Dick, A., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Drielsma, F., Filthaut, F., Fitzpatrick, T., Franchini, P., Francis, V., Fry, L., Gallagher, A., Gamet, R., Gardener, R., Gourlay, S., Grant, A., Graulich, J. S., Greis, J., Griffiths, S., Hanlet, P., Hansen, O. M., Hanson, G. G., Hart, T. L., Hartnett, T., Hayler, T., Heidt, C., Hills, M., Hodgson, P., Hunt, C., Husi, C., Iaciofano, A., Ishimoto, S., Kafka, G., Kaplan, D. M., Karadzhov, Y., Kim, Y. K., Kuno, Y., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J-B, Langlands, J., Lau, W., Leonova, M., Li, D., Lintern, A., Littlefield, M., Long, K., Luo, T., Macwaters, C., Martlew, B., Martyniak, J., Masciocchi, F., Mazza, R., Middleton, S., Moretti, A., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Nebrensky, J. J., Neuffer, D., Nichols, A., Nicholson, R., Nicola, L., Messomo, E. Noah, Nugent, J. C., Oates, A., Onel, Y., Orestano, D., Overton, E., Owens, P., Palladino, V., Pasternak, J., Pastore, F., Pidcott, C., Popovic, M., Preece, R., Prestemon, S., Rajaram, D., Ramberger, S., Rayner, M. A., Ricciardi, S., Roberts, T. J., Robinson, M., Rogers, C., Ronald, K., Rothenfusser, K., Rubinov, P., Rucinski, P., Sakamato, H., Sanders, D. A., Sandstrom, R., Santos, E., Savidge, T., Smith, P. J., Snopok, P., Soler, F. J. P., Speirs, D., Stanley, T., Stokes, G., Summers, D. J., Tarrant, J., Taylor, I., Tortora, L., Torun, Y., Tsenov, R., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, M. A., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Virostek, S., Vretenar, M., Warburton, P., Watson, S., White, C., Whyte, C. G., Wilson, A., Wisting, H., Yang, X., Young, A., and Zisman, M.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requires an efficient particle-identification (PID) system to identify muons. The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter that forms part of the PID system and tags muons that traverse the cooling channel without decaying. The detector is capable of identifying electrons with an efficiency of 98.6%, providing a purity for the MICE beam that exceeds 99.8%. The EMR also proved to be a powerful tool for the reconstruction of muon momenta in the range 100-280 MeV/$c$., Comment: 22 pages, 19 figures
Published: 2015
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39. Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam

Author: Adams, D, Alekou, A, Apollonio, M, Asfandiyarov, R, Barber, G, Barclay, P, de Bari, A, Bayes, R, Bayliss, V, Bertoni, R, Blackmore, VJ, Blondel, A, Blot, S, Bogomilov, M, Bonesini, M, Booth, CN, Bowring, D, Boyd, S, Brashaw, TW, Bravar, U, Bross, AD, Capponi, M, Carlisle, T, Cecchet, G, Charnley, C, Chignoli, F, Cline, D, Cobb, JH, Colling, G, Collomb, N, Coney, L, Cooke, P, Courthold, M, Cremaldi, LM, DeMello, A, Dick, A, Dobbs, A, Dornan, P, Drews, M, Drielsma, F, Filthaut, F, Fitzpatrick, T, Franchini, P, Francis, V, Fry, L, Gallagher, A, Gamet, R, Gardener, R, Gourlay, S, Grant, A, Greis, JR, Griffiths, S, Hanlet, P, Hansen, OM, Hanson, GG, Hart, TL, Hartnett, T, Hayler, T, Heidt, C, Hills, M, Hodgson, P, Hunt, C, Iaciofano, A, Ishimoto, S, Kafka, G, Kaplan, DM, Karadzhov, Y, Kim, YK, Kuno, Y, Kyberd, P, Lagrange, J-B, Langlands, J, Lau, W, Leonova, M, Li, D, Lintern, A, Littlefield, M, Long, K, Luo, T, Macwaters, C, Martlew, B, Martyniak, J, Mazza, R, Middleton, S, Moretti, A, Moss, A, Muir, A, Mullacrane, I, Nebrensky, JJ, Neuffer, D, Nichols, A, Nicholson, R, Nugent, JC, Oates, A, Onel, Y, Orestano, D, Overton, E, Owens, P, Palladino, V, and Pasternak, J
Subjects: Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Instrumentation for particle accelerators and storage rings - low energy, Beam-line instrumentation (beam position and profile, monitors, beam-intensity monitors, bunch length monitors), physics.ins-det, hep-ex, Engineering, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Physical sciences
Abstract: The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240 MeV/c at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ISIS facility. The measurement of ionization cooling in MICE relies on the selection of a pure sample of muons that traverse the experiment. To make this selection, the MICE Muon Beam is designed to deliver a beam of muons with less than ∼1% contamination. To make the final muon selection, MICE employs a particle-identification (PID) system upstream and downstream of the cooling cell. The PID system includes time-of-flight hodoscopes, threshold-Cherenkov counters and calorimetry. The upper limit for the pion contamination measured in this paper is fπ < 1.4% at 90% C.L., including systematic uncertainties. Therefore, the MICE Muon Beam is able to meet the stringent pion-contamination requirements of the study of ionization cooling.
Published: 2016

40. LBNO-DEMO: Large-scale neutrino detector demonstrators for phased performance assessment in view of a long-baseline oscillation experiment

Author: Agostino, L., Andrieu, B., Asfandiyarov, R., Autiero, D., Bésida, O., Bay, F., Bayes, R., Blebea-Apostu, A. M., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bolognesi, S., Bordoni, S., Bravar, A., Buizza-Avanzini, M., Cadoux, F., Caiulo, D., Calin, M., Campanelli, M., Cantini, C., Chaussard, L., Chesneanu, D., Colino, N., Crivelli, P., De Bonis, I., Déclais, Y., Dawson, J., De La Taille, C., Sanchez, P. Del Amo, Delbart, A., Di Luise, S., Duchesneau, D., Dulucq, F., Dumarchez, J., Efthymiopoulos, I., Emery, S., Enqvist, T., Epprecht, L., Esanu, T., Franco, D., Friend, M., Galymov, V., Gendotti, A., Giganti, C., Gil-Botella, I., Gomoiu, M. C, Gorodetzky, P., Haesler, A., Hasegawa, T., Horikawa, S., Ieva, M., Jipa, A., Karadzhov, Y., Karpikov, I., Khotjantsev, A., Korzenev, A., Kryn, D., Kudenko, Y., Kuusiniemi, P., Lazanu, I., Levy, J. -M., Loo, K., Lux, T., Maalampi, J., Margineanu, R. M., Marteau, J., Martin, C., Martin-Chassard, G., Mazzucato, E., Mefodiev, A., Mineev, O., Mitrica, B., Murphy, S., Nakadaira, T., Nessi, M., Nikolics, K., Nita, L., Noah, E., Novella, P., Nuijten, G. A., Ovsiannikova, T., Palomares, C., Patzak, T., Pennacchio, E., Periale, L., Pessard, H., Popov, B., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Regenfus, C., Ristea, C., Ristea, O., Robert, A., Rubbia, A., Sakashita, K., Sanchez, F., Santorelli, R., Scantamburlo, E., Sergiampietri, F., Sgalaberna, D., Slupecki, M., Soler, F. J. P., Stanca, D. L., Tonazzo, A., Trzaska, W. H., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Vannucci, F., Vasseur, G., Verdugo, A., Viant, T., Wu, S., Yershov, N., Zambelli, L., and Zito, M.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: In June 2012, an Expression of Interest for a long-baseline experiment (LBNO) has been submitted to the CERN SPSC. LBNO considers three types of neutrino detector technologies: a double-phase liquid argon (LAr) TPC and a magnetised iron detector as far detectors. For the near detector, a high-pressure gas TPC embedded in a calorimeter and a magnet is the baseline design. A mandatory milestone is a concrete prototyping effort towards the envisioned large-scale detectors, and an accompanying campaign of measurements aimed at assessing the detector associated systematic errors. The proposed $6\times 6\times 6$m$^3$ DLAr is an industrial prototype of the design discussed in the EoI and scalable to 20 kton or 50~kton. It is to be constructed and operated in a controlled laboratory and surface environment with test beam access, such as the CERN North Area (NA). Its successful operation and full characterisation will be a fundamental milestone, likely opening the path to an underground deployment of larger detectors. The response of the DLAr demonstrator will be measured and understood with an unprecedented precision in a charged particle test beam (0.5-20 GeV/c). The exposure will certify the assumptions and calibrate the response of the detector, and allow to develop and to benchmark sophisticated reconstruction algorithms, such as those of 3-dimensional tracking, particle ID and energy flow in liquid argon. All these steps are fundamental for validating the correctness of the physics performance described in the LBNO EoI., Comment: 217 pages, 164 figures, LBNO-DEMO (CERN WA105) Collaboration
Published: 2014

41. A search for two body muon decay signals

Author: Bayes, R., Bueno, J., Davydov, Yu. I., Depommier, P., Faszer, W., Fujiwara, M. C., Gagliardi, C. A., Gaponenko, A., Gill, D. R., Grossheim, A., Gumplinger, P., Hasinoff, M. D., Henderson, R. S., Hillairet, A., Hu, J., Koetke, D. D., MacDonald, R. P., Marshall, G. M., Mathie, E. L., Mischke, R. E., Olchanski, K., Olin, A., Openshaw, R., Poutissou, J. -M., Poutissou, R., Selivanov, V., Sheffer, G., Shin, B., Stanislaus, T. D. S., Tacik, R., and Tribble, R. E.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Lepton family number violation is tested by searching for $\mu^+\to e^+X^0$ decays among the 5.8$\times 10^8$ positive muon decay events analyzed by the TWIST collaboration. Limits are set on the production of both massless and massive $X^0$ bosons. The large angular acceptance of this experiment allows limits to be placed on anisotropic $\mu^+\to e^+X^0$ decays, which can arise from interactions violating both lepton flavor and parity conservation. Branching ratio limits of order $10^{-5}$ are obtained for bosons with masses of 13 - 80 MeV/c$^2$ and with different decay asymmetries. For bosons with masses less than 13 MeV/c$^{2}$ the asymmetry dependence is much stronger and the 90% limit on the branching ratio varies up to $5.8 \times 10^{-5}$. This is the first study that explicitly evaluates the limits for anisotropic two body muon decays., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted by PRD
Published: 2014
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42. Proposal for SPS beam time for the baby MIND and TASD neutrino detector prototypes

Author: Asfandiyarov, R., Bayes, R., Blondel, A., Bogomilov, M., Bross, A., Cadoux, F., Cervera, A., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Karpikov, I., Khabibulin, M., Khotyantsev, A., Kopylov, A., Kudenko, Y., Matev, R., Mineev, O., Musienko, Y., Nessi, M., Noah, E., Rubbia, A., Shaykiev, A., Soler, P., Tsenov, R., Vankova-Kirilova, G., and Yershov, N.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The design, construction and testing of neutrino detector prototypes at CERN are ongoing activities. This document reports on the design of solid state baby MIND and TASD detector prototypes and outlines requirements for a test beam at CERN to test these, tentatively planned on the H8 beamline in the North Area, which is equipped with a large aperture magnet. The current proposal is submitted to be considered in light of the recently approved projects related to neutrino activities with the SPS in the North Area in the medium term 2015-2020.
Published: 2014

43. Initial measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+

Author: Collaboration, SNO+, Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Baker, J., Barão, F., Barros, N., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Chen, M., Cheng, S., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Dehghani, R., Deloye, J., Depatie, M. M., Di Lodovico, F., Dima, C., Dittmer, J., Dixon, K. H., Esmaeilian, M. S., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R., Gaur, A., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hall, S., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hewitt, C., Howard, V., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Huang, P., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaluzienski, S., Kaptanoglu, T., Khan, H., Kladnik, J., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Lake, C., Lebanowski, L., Lefebvre, C., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mills, C., Milton, G., Colina, A. Molina, Morris, D., Morton-Blake, I., Mubasher, M., Naugle, S., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Paleshi, K., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pickard, L., Quenallata, B., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Semenec, I., Simms, J., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Smith, J., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., Ward, M., Weigand, J. J., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, J. D., Wright, A., Yang, S., Yeh, M., Ye, Z., Yu, S., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., Zummo, A., Collaboration, SNO+, Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Baker, J., Barão, F., Barros, N., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Chen, M., Cheng, S., Cleveland, B., Cookman, D., Corning, J., Cox, M. A., Dehghani, R., Deloye, J., Depatie, M. M., Di Lodovico, F., Dima, C., Dittmer, J., Dixon, K. H., Esmaeilian, M. S., Falk, E., Fatemighomi, N., Ford, R., Gaur, A., González-Reina, O. I., Gooding, D., Grant, C., Grove, J., Hall, S., Hallin, A. L., Hallman, D., Heintzelman, W. J., Helmer, R. L., Hewitt, C., Howard, V., Hreljac, B., Hu, J., Huang, P., Hunt-Stokes, R., Hussain, S. M. A., Inácio, A. S., Jillings, C. J., Kaluzienski, S., Kaptanoglu, T., Khan, H., Kladnik, J., Klein, J. R., Kormos, L. L., Krar, B., Kraus, C., Krauss, C. B., Kroupová, T., Lake, C., Lebanowski, L., Lefebvre, C., Lozza, V., Luo, M., Maio, A., Manecki, S., Maneira, J., Martin, R. D., McCauley, N., McDonald, A. B., Mills, C., Milton, G., Colina, A. Molina, Morris, D., Morton-Blake, I., Mubasher, M., Naugle, S., Nolan, L. J., O'Keeffe, H. M., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Page, J., Paleshi, K., Parker, W., Paton, J., Peeters, S. J. M., Pickard, L., Quenallata, B., Ravi, P., Reichold, A., Riccetto, S., Rose, J., Rosero, R., Semenec, I., Simms, J., Skensved, P., Smiley, M., Smith, J., Svoboda, R., Tam, B., Tseng, J., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veinot, J. G. C., Virtue, C. J., Ward, M., Weigand, J. J., Wilson, J. R., Wilson, J. D., Wright, A., Yang, S., Yeh, M., Ye, Z., Yu, S., Zhang, Y., Zuber, K., and Zummo, A.
Abstract: The SNO+ collaboration reports its first spectral analysis of long-baseline reactor antineutrino oscillation using 114 tonne-years of data. Fitting the neutrino oscillation probability to the observed energy spectrum yields constraints on the neutrino mass-squared difference $\Delta m^2_{21}$. In the ranges allowed by previous measurements, the best-fit $\Delta m^2_{21}$ is (8.85$^{+1.10}_{-1.33}$) $\times$ 10$^{-5}$ eV$^2$. This measurement is continuing in the next phases of SNO+ and is expected to surpass the present global precision on $\Delta m^2_{21}$ with about three years of data.
Published: 2024

44. Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility

Author: Adey, D., Agarwalla, S. K., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Asfandiyarov, R., Back, J. J., Barker, G., Baussan, E., Bayes, R., Bhadra, S., Blackmore, V., Blondel, A., Bogacz, S. A., Booth, C., Boyd, S. B., Bramsiepe, S. G., Bravar, A., Brice, S. J., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Cease, H., Cervera, A., Cobb, J., Colling, D., Coloma, P., Coney, L., Dobbs, A., Dobson, J., Donini, A., Dornan, P., Dracos, M., Dufour, F., Edgecock, R., Geelhoed, M., Uchida, M. A., Ghosh, T., Gómez-Cadenas, J. J., de Gouvêa, A., Haesler, A., Hanson, G., Harrison, P. F., Hartz, M., Hernández, P., Morata, J. A. Hernando, Hodgson, P., Huber, P., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Kobilarcik, T., Kopp, J., Kormos, L., Korzenev, A., Kuno, Y., Kurup, A., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J. B., Laing, A., Liu, A., Link, J. M., Long, K., Mahn, K., Mariani, C., Martin, C., Martin, J., McCauley, N., McDonald, K. T., Mena, O., Mishra, S. R., Mokhov, N., Morfín, J., Mori, Y., Murray, W., Neuffer, D., Nichol, R., Noah, E., Palmer, M. A., Parke, S., Pascoli, S., Pasternak, J., Plunkett, R., Popovic, M., Ratoff, P., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Rubinov, P., Santos, E., Sato, A., Sen, T., Scantamburlo, E., Sedgbeer, J. K., Smith, D. R., Smith, P. J., Sobczyk, J. T., Søby, L., Soler, F. J. P., Sorel, M., Snopok, P., Stamoulis, P., Stanco, L., Striganov, S., Tanaka, H. A., Taylor, I. J., Touramanis, C., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, Y., Vassilopoulos, N., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wilking, M. J., Wildner, E., and Winter, W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light sterile neutrinos that arises in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and from estimates of the effective number of neutrino flavors from fits to cosmological data. In this paper, we show that the nuSTORM facility, with stored muons of 3.8 GeV/c $\pm$ 10%, will be able to carry out a conclusive muon neutrino appearance search for sterile neutrinos and test the LSND and MiniBooNE experimental signals with 10$\sigma$ sensitivity, even assuming conservative estimates for the systematic uncertainties. This experiment would add greatly to our knowledge of the contribution of light sterile neutrinos to the number of effective neutrino flavors from the abundance of primordial helium production and from constraints on neutrino energy density from the cosmic microwave background. The appearance search is complemented by a simultaneous muon neutrino disappearance analysis that will facilitate tests of various sterile neutrino models., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
Published: 2014
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45. Electron-muon ranger: Performance in the MICE muon beam

Author: Adams, D, Alekou, A, Apollonio, M, Asfandiyarov, R, Barber, G, Barclay, P, De Bari, A, Bayes, R, Bayliss, V, Bene, P, Bertoni, R, Blackmore, VJ, Blondel, A, Blot, S, Bogomilov, M, Bonesini, M, Booth, CN, Bowring, D, Boyd, S, Bradshaw, TW, Bravar, U, Bross, AD, Cadoux, F, Capponi, M, Carlisle, T, Cecchet, G, Charnley, C, Chignoli, F, Cline, D, Cobb, JH, Colling, G, Collomb, N, Coney, L, Cooke, P, Courthold, M, Cremaldi, LM, Debieux, S, Demello, A, Dick, A, Dobbs, A, Dornan, P, Drielsma, F, Filthaut, F, Fitzpatrick, T, Franchini, P, Francis, V, Fry, L, Gallagher, A, Gamet, R, Gardener, R, Gourlay, S, Grant, A, Graulich, JS, Greis, J, Griffiths, S, Hanlet, P, Hansen, OM, Hanson, GG, Hart, TL, Hartnett, T, Hayler, T, Heidt, C, Hills, M, Hodgson, P, Hunt, C, Husi, C, Iaciofano, A, Ishimoto, S, Kafka, G, Kaplan, DM, Karadzhov, Y, Kim, YK, Kuno, Y, Kyberd, P, Lagrange, JB, Langlands, J, Lau, W, Leonova, M, Li, D, Lintern, A, Littlefield, M, Long, K, Luo, T, Macwaters, C, Martlew, B, Martyniak, J, Masciocchi, F, Mazza, R, Middleton, S, Moretti, A, Moss, A, Muir, A, Mullacrane, I, Nebrensky, JJ, Neuffer, D, Nichols, A, Nicholson, R, Nicola, L, Messomo, EN, and Nugent, JC
Subjects: Particle identification methods, Particle tracking detectors, Performance of High Energy Physics Detectors, Calorimeters, physics.ins-det, hep-ex, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Other Physical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract: The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requires an efficient particle-identification (PID) system to identify muons. The Electron-Muon Ranger (EMR) is a fully-active tracking-calorimeter that forms part of the PID system and tags muons that traverse the cooling channel without decaying. The detector is capable of identifying electrons with an efficiency of 98.6%, providing a purity for the MICE beam that exceeds 99.8%. The EMR also proved to be a powerful tool for the reconstruction of muon momenta in the range 100-280 MeV/c.
Published: 2015

46. nuSTORM - Neutrinos from STORed Muons: Proposal to the Fermilab PAC

Author: Adey, D., Agarwalla, S. K., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Asfandiyarov, R., Back, J. J., Barker, G., Baussan, E., Bayes, R., Bhadra, S., Blackmore, V., Blondel, A., Bogacz, S. A., Booth, C., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Brice, S. J., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Cease, H., Cervera, A., Cobb, J., Colling, D., Coloma, P., Coney, L., Dobbs, A., Dobson, J., Donini, A., Dornan, P., Dracos, M., Dufour, F., Edgecock, R., Evans, J., Geelhoed, M., George, M. A., Ghosh, T., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., de Gouvea, A., Haesler, A., Hanson, G., Harrison, P. F., Hartz, M., Hernandez, P., Morata, J. A. Hernando, Hodgson, P., Huber, P., Izmaylov, A., Karadzhov, Y., Kobilarcik, T., Kopp, J., Kormos, L., Korzenev, A., Kuno, Y., Kurup, A., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J. B., Laing, A., Liu, A., Link, J. M., Long, K., Mahn, K., Mariani, C., Martin, C., Martin, J., McCauley, N., McDonald, K. T., Mena, O., Mishra, S. R., Mokhov, N., Morfin, J., Mori, Y., Murray, W., Neuffer, D., Nichol, R., Noah, E., Palmer, M. A., Parke, S., Pascoli, S., Pasternak, J., Popovic, M., Ratoff, P., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Rubinov, P., Santos, E., Sato, A., Sen, T., Scantamburlo, E., Sedgbeer, J. K., Smith, D. R., Smith, P. J., Sobczyk, J. T., Soby, L., Soler, F. J. P., Soldner-Rembold, S., Sorel, M., Snopok, P., Stamoulis, P., Stanco, L., Striganov, S., Tanaka, H. A., Taylor, I. J., Touramanis, C., Tunnell, C. D., Uchida, Y., Vassilopoulos, N., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wilking, M. J., Wildner, E., Winter, W., and Yang, U. K.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos (and their anti-particles) from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum acceptance of 10%. The facility is unique in that it will: 1. Allow searches for sterile neutrinos of exquisite sensitivity to be carried out; 2. Serve future long- and short-baseline neutrino-oscillation programs by providing definitive measurements of electron neutrino and muon neutrino scattering cross sections off nuclei with percent-level precision; and 3. Constitutes the crucial first step in the development of muon accelerators as a powerful new technique for particle physics. The document describes the facility in detail and demonstrates its physics capabilities. This document was submitted to the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee in consideration for Stage I approval.
Published: 2013

47. A Toroidal Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector (MIND) for a Neutrino Factory

Author: Bross, A., Wands, R., Bayes, R., Laing, A., Soler, F. J. P., Villanueva, A. Cervera, Ghosh, T., Cadenas, J. J. Gómez, Hernández, P., Martín-Albo, J., and Burguet-Castell, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: A neutrino factory has unparalleled physics reach for the discovery and measurement of CP violation in the neutrino sector. A far detector for a neutrino factory must have good charge identification with excellent background rejection and a large mass. An elegant solution is to construct a magnetized iron neutrino detector (MIND) along the lines of MINOS, where iron plates provide a toroidal magnetic field and scintillator planes provide 3D space points. In this report, the current status of a simulation of a toroidal MIND for a neutrino factory is discussed in light of the recent measurements of large $\theta_{13}$. The response and performance using the 10 GeV neutrino factory configuration are presented. It is shown that this setup has equivalent $\delta_{CP}$ reach to a MIND with a dipole field and is sensitive to the discovery of CP violation over 85% of the values of $\delta_{CP}$., Comment: Results from the studies of a far detector at a neutrino factory as part of the European Framework Programme 7 project, EUROnu. 35 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2013
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48. Characterisation of the muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment

Author: The MICE Collaboration, Adams, D., Adey, D., Alekou, A., Apollonio, M., Asfandiyarov, R., Back, J., Barber, G., Barclay, P., de Bari, A., Bayes, R., Bayliss, V., Bertoni, R., Blackmore, V. J., Blondel, A., Blot, S., Bogomilov, M., Bonesini, M., Booth, C. N., Bowring, D., Boyd, S., Bradshaw, T. W., Bravar, U., Bross, A. D., Capponi, M., Carlisle, T., Cecchet, G., Charnley, G., Cobb, J. H., Colling, D., Collomb, N., Coney, L., Cooke, P., Courthold, M., Cremaldi, L. M., DeMello, A., Dick, A., Dobbs, A., Dornan, P., Fayer, S., Filthaut, F., Fish, A., Fitzpatrick, T., Fletcher, R., Forrest, D., Francis, V., Freemire, B., Fry, L., Gallagher, A., Gamet, R., Gourlay, S., Grant, A., Graulich, J. S., Griffiths, S., Hanlet, P., Hansen, O. M., Hanson, G. G., Harrison, P., Hart, T. L., Hartnett, T., Hayler, T., Heidt, C., Hills, M., Hodgson, P., Iaciofano, A., Ishimoto, S., Kafka, G., Kaplan, D. M., Karadzhov, Y., Kim, Y. K., Kolev, D., Kuno, Y., Kyberd, P., Lau, W., Leaver, J., Leonova, M., Li, D., Lintern, A., Littlefield, M., Long, K., Lucchini, G., Luo, T., Macwaters, C., Martlew, B., Martyniak, J., Moretti, A., Moss, A., Muir, A., Mullacrane, I., Nebrensky, J. J., Neuffer, D., Nichols, A., Nicholson, R., Nugent, J. C., Onel, Y., Orestano, D., Overton, E., Owens, P., Palladino, V., Pasternak, J., Pastore, F., Pidcott, C., Popovic, M., Preece, R., Prestemon, S., Rajaram, D., Ramberger, S., Rayner, M. A., Ricciardi, S., Richards, A., Roberts, T. J., Robinson, M., Rogers, C., Ronald, K., Rubinov, P., Rucinski, R., Rusinov, I., Sakamoto, H., Sanders, D. A., Santos, E., Savidge, T., Smith, P. J., Snopok, P., Soler, F. J. P., Stanley, T., Summers, D. J., Takahashi, M., Tarrant, J., Taylor, I., Tortora, L., Torun, Y., Tsenov, R., Tunnell, C. D., Vankova, G., Verguilov, V., Virostek, S., Vretenar, M., Walaron, K., Watson, S., White, C., Whyte, C. G., Wilson, A., Wisting, H., and Zisman, M.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract: A novel single-particle technique to measure emittance has been developed and used to characterise seventeen different muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE). The muon beams, whose mean momenta vary from 171 to 281 MeV/c, have emittances of approximately 1.5--2.3 \pi mm-rad horizontally and 0.6--1.0 \pi mm-rad vertically, a horizontal dispersion of 90--190 mm and momentum spreads of about 25 MeV/c. There is reasonable agreement between the measured parameters of the beams and the results of simulations. The beams are found to meet the requirements of MICE., Comment: Published in EPJC, 20 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2013
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49. The EUROnu Project

Author: Edgecock, T. R., Caretta, O., Davenne, T., Densham, C., Fitton, M., Kelliher, D., Loveridge, P., Machida, S., Prior, C., Rogers, C., Rooney, M., Thomason, J., Wilcox, D., Wildner, E., Efthymiopoulos, I., Garoby, R., Gilardoni, S., Hansen, C., Benedetto, E., Jensen, E., Kosmicki, A., Martini, M., Osborne, J., Prior, G., Stora, T., Melo-Mendonca, T., Vlachoudis, V., Waaijer, C., Cupial, P., Chancé, A., Longhin, A., Payet, J., Zito, M., Baussan, E., Bobeth, C., Bouquerel, E., Dracos, M., Gaudiot, G., Lepers, B., Osswald, F., Poussot, P., Vassilopoulos, N., Wurtz, J., Zeter, V., Bielski, J., Kozien, M., Lacny, L., Skoczen, B., Szybinski, B., Ustrycka, A., Wroblewski, A., Marie-Jeanne, M., Balint, P., Fourel, C., Giraud, J., Jacob, J., Lamy, T., Latrasse, L., Sortais, P., Thuillier, T., Mitrofanov, S., Loiselet, M., Keutgen, Th., Delbar, Th., Debray, F., Trophine, C., Veys, S., Daversin, C., Zorin, V., Izotov, I., Skalyga, V., Burt, G., Dexter, A. C., Kravchuk, V. L., Marchi, T., Cinausero, M., Gramegna, F., De Angelis, G., Prete, G., Collazuol, G., Laveder, M., Mazzocco, M., Mezzetto, M., Signorini, C., Vardaci, E., Di Nitto, A., Brondi, A., La Rana, G., Migliozzi, P., Moro, R., Palladino, V., Gelli, N., Berkovits, D., Hass, M., Hirsh, T. Y., Schaumann, M., Stahl, A., Wehner, J., Bross, A., Kopp, J., Neuffer, D., Wands, R., Bayes, R., Laing, A., Soler, P., Agarwalla, S. K., Villanueva, A. Cervera, Donini, A., Ghosh, T., Cadenas, J. J. Gómez, Hernández, P., Martín-Albo, J., Mena, O., Burguet-Castell, J., Agostino, L., Buizza-Avanzini, M., Marafini, M., Patzak, T., Tonazzo, A., Duchesneau, D., Mosca, L., Bogomilov, M., Karadzhov, Y., Matev, R., Tsenov, R., Akhmedov, E., Blennow, M., Lindner, M., Schwetz, T., Martinez, E. Fernández, Maltoni, M., Menéndez, J., Giunti, C., García, M. C. González, Salvado, J., Coloma, P., Huber, P., Li, T., López-Pavón, J., Orme, C., Pascoli, S., Meloni, D., Tang, J., Winter, W., Ohlsson, T., Zhang, H., Scotto-Lavina, L., Terranova, F., Bonesini, M., Tortora, L., Alekou, A., Aslaninejad, M., Bontoiu, C., Kurup, A., Jenner, L. J., Long, K., Pasternak, J., Pozimski, J., Back, J. J., Harrison, P., Beard, K., Bogacz, A., Berg, J. S., Stratakis, D., Witte, H., Snopok, P., Bliss, N., Cordwell, M., Moss, A., Pattalwar, S., and Apollonio, M.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The EUROnu project has studied three possible options for future, high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe. The first is a Super Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of pions created by bombarding targets with a 4 MW proton beam from the CERN High Power Superconducting Proton Linac. The far detector for this facility is the 500 kt MEMPHYS water Cherenkov, located in the Fr\'ejus tunnel. The second facility is the Neutrino Factory, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of {\mu}+ and {\mu}- beams in a storage ring. The far detector in this case is a 100 kt Magnetised Iron Neutrino Detector at a baseline of 2000 km. The third option is a Beta Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of beta emitting isotopes, in particular 6He and 18Ne, also stored in a ring. The far detector is also the MEMPHYS detector in the Fr\'ejus tunnel. EUROnu has undertaken conceptual designs of these facilities and studied the performance of the detectors. Based on this, it has determined the physics reach of each facility, in particular for the measurement of CP violation in the lepton sector, and estimated the cost of construction. These have demonstrated that the best facility to build is the Neutrino Factory. However, if a powerful proton driver is constructed for another purpose or if the MEMPHYS detector is built for astroparticle physics, the Super Beam also becomes very attractive., Comment: Results from the Framework Programme 7 project EUROnu, which studied three possible accelerator facilities for future high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe
Published: 2013
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50. Neutrinos from Stored Muons nuSTORM: Expression of Interest

Author: Adey, D., Agarwalla, S. K., Ankenbrandt, C. M., Asfandiyarov, R., Back, J. J., Barker, G., Baussan, E., Bayes, R., Bhadra, S., Blackmore, V., Blondel, A., Bogacz, S. A., Booth, C., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Brice, S. J., Bross, A. D., Cadoux, F., Cease, H., Cervera, A., Cobb, J., Colling, D., Coney, L., Dobbs, A., Dobson, J., Donini, A., Dornan, P. J., Dracos, M., Dufour, F., Edgecock, R., Evans, J., George, M. A., Ghosh, T., deGouvea, A., Gomez-Cadenas, J. J., Haesler, A., Hanson, G., Geelhoed, M., Harrison, P. F., Hartz, M., Hernandez, P., Hernando-Morata, J. A., Hodgson, P. J., Huber, P., Izmaylov, A., Karadhzov, Y., Kobilarcik, T., Kopp, J., Kormos, L., Korzenev, A., Kurup, A., Kuno, Y., Kyberd, P., Lagrange, J. P., Laing, A. M., Link, J., Liu, A., Long, K. R., McCauley, N., McDonald, K. T., Mahn, K., Martin, C., Martin, J., Mena, O., Mishra, S. R., Mokhov, N., Morfin, J., Mori, Y., Murray, W., Neuffer, D., Nichol, R., Noah, E., Palmer, M. A., Parke, S., Pascoli, S., Pasternak, J., Popovic, M., Ratoff, P., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Ricciardi, S., Rogers, C., Rubinov, P., Santos, E., Sato, A., Scantamburlo, E., Sedgbeer, J. K., Smith, D. R., Smith, P. J., Sobczyk, J. T., Soldner-Rembold, S., Soler, F. J. P., Sorel, M., Stahl, A., Stanco, L., Stamoulis, P., Striganov, S., Tanaka, H., Taylor, I. J., Touramanis, C., Tunnel, C. D., Uchida, Y., Vassilopoulos, N., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wildner, E., Wilking, M. J., Winter, W., and Yang, U. K.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The nuSTORM facility has been designed to deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam with a central momentum of 3.8 GeV/c and a momentum spread of 10%. The facility is unique in that it will: serve the future long- and short-baseline neutrino-oscillation programmes by providing definitive measurements of electron-neutrino- and muon-neutrino-nucleus cross sections with percent-level precision; allow searches for sterile neutrinos of exquisite sensitivity to be carried out; and constitute the essential first step in the incremental development of muon accelerators as a powerful new technique for particle physics. Of the world's proton-accelerator laboratories, only CERN and FNAL have the infrastructure required to mount nuSTORM. Since no siting decision has yet been taken, the purpose of this Expression of Interest (EoI) is to request the resources required to: investigate in detail how nuSTORM could be implemented at CERN; and develop options for decisive European contributions to the nuSTORM facility and experimental programme wherever the facility is sited. The EoI defines a two-year programme culminating in the delivery of a Technical Design Report., Comment: 59 pages; 24 figures; 5 tables
Published: 2013

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