The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (JUNO-TAO) is a ton-level liquid scintillator detector at 30-35 meters from the Taishan reactor and it is a satellite detector of the JUNO Observatory.
It aims to measure the reactor neutrino spectrum and to provide model independent inputs for the neutrino mass hierarchy. To reach an energy resolution better than 2%, the scintillation light produced in...
JUNO is a 20 kt liquid scintillator detector under construction in Jiangmen, China, whose goal is to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. Decay of radioactive isotopes in the liquid scintillator can mimic neutrino signal events. In order to meet the stringent requirements on the radiopurity of the liquid scintillator in JUNO experiment, the OSIRIS pre-detector is being designed to monitor...
Future neutrino observatories, like the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE),
will be sensitive to supernovae and solar neutrinos of low energies. These neutrinos offer a unique
look inside stars and stellar explosions. Inside the DUNE liquid argon time projection chamber,
low-energy electron neutrinos will produce visible electrons. In this talk, we will present a
preliminary study...
Recent neutrino oscillation experiments have ushered in a new era with precisionmeasurements employed in the search for CP violation and mass hierarchy. The Deep UndergroundNeutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next generation long-baseline neutrino experiment hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab. The single-phase liquid argon far-detector prototype (ProtoDUNE-SP) at the CERN neutrino...
The ESS neutrino Super Beam project (ESS$\nu$SB) aims at the production of an intense neutrino beam by using the 5 MW average power proton beam from the ESS facility currently under construction in Lund (Sweden). In the present work, we show the results of the Genetic Algorithm applied to the design of the ESS$\nu$SB target station. The impact of this optimization method on the physics reach...
China is currently seeing a rise of underground laboratories and particle accelerators on its mainland. In this talk, we discuss the prospects of building a next-generation accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment by utilizing the laboratory sites that are available in China. We consider the potential candidates for the neutrino beam and detector facilities and examine their...
After the successful experimental confirmation of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillation, the major goal of the neutrino experiments has mainly shifted to the search for leptonic CP-violation (CPV), determination of neutrino mass ordering and the precision measurement of the oscillation parameters.
Leptonic CPV, if it can be established, can offer a crucial ingredient in explaining the...
The main goals of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) are to measure CP violation in the lepton sector, to make precise measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, to observe supernova burst neutrinos and to detect rare processes such as proton decay. To fulfill these goals, DUNE will use a highly capable suite of near detectors that work together to constrain flux and cross...
The combination of recent developments in liquid scintillator, photodetection technology, and reconstruction techniques have made possible the concept of a large-scale neutrino detector that can distinguish Cherenkov and scintillation light. THEIA is a proposed multi-kton experiment that would be pioneering in exploiting the innovative concept of hybrid optical detectors, with the potential to...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation liquid scintillator reactor neutrino experiment being built in the Guangdong province in China. JUNO is a multi-purpose experiment with a wide range of applications in neutrino physics, ranging from a mass-ordering determination to solar, geo, and atmospheric neutrino measurements, to detecting supernovae. Moreover JUNO...
The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposed distributed observatory with a total area of 200,000 km2. This observatory will not only be sensitive to Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) neutrinos, but also to UHE photons and UHE cosmic rays; making it a multi-messenger observatory at the highest energies. In this contribution, the current status of the GRAND project will be...
The search for neutrino signals using a surface detector array is a challenging task that requires a very good control of the large background the from cosmic radiation. In this work we propose to use the HAWC observatory, an ~22000 m^2 water Cherenkov detector array located at 4100 m a.s.l., to search for neutrino induced muons produced within the largest volcano in Mexico, located in close...
Every time researchers have pushed the energy boundary in particle physics we have found something new about our Universe. Recently, IceCube has demonstrated that Neutrino Telescopes can use neutrinos from the cosmos as excellent tools to continue this exploration. The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Explorer (P-ONE) is a proposed initiative to construct one of the largest neutrino telescopes deep in...
The PIENU experiment was performed to measure the ${\pi}^+{\to}e^+{\nu}_e$ branching ratio with precision of $<0.1$% and search for rare pion decays. Recently many new and improved results of the rare decay searches involving heavy neutrinos ${\pi}^+{\to}l^+{\nu}_H(l=e,{\mu})$, weakly interacting neutral bosons ${\pi}^+{\to}l^+{\nu}X$, and three neutrinos...
Observation of geo-neutrinos originating from radioactive isotopes in the Earth (238U,232Th, etc.) can be converted to the amount of radioactive isotopes and the heat generated by their decays which governs the Earth dynamics.
KamLAND experiment achieved world's first observation of geo-neutrinos in 2005. Improvement of observation accuracy allowed us to reach the level where we can obtain...
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory with its surface array IceTop enables multi-messenger astrophysics, detecting cosmic rays and neutrinos and searching for PeV gamma rays at a single location. IceTop will be upgraded in the coming years in order to improve its sensitivity and resolution. This surface enhancement will consist of 32 stations comprised of 8 scintillation panels and 3 radio...
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE) is a new initiative between Canadian and German groups that aims to construct a large volume neutrino telescope in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and, in this way, complement the sky coverage of the existing or under construction neutrino telescopes. As part of the NEPTUNE observatory, established by ONC, two pathfinders were built and deployed at the...
The FAMU (Fisica degli Atomi Muonici) experiment has the goal to measure precisely the proton Zemach radius, with incoming low energy muons. It will contribute to precision tests of QED and may contribute to shed more light on the so-called proton radius puzzle, by studying the electromagnetic structure of the proton and muon-nucleon interactions. To this aim, the FAMU experiment makes use...
The neutrino detection require an associated lepton birth signal. Because of the weak interaction and because of the abundant cosmic ray noises, in last century huge undergroung detector were preferred for the single lepton traces. However highest energies leptons (above tens-hundred TeV), electron or tau secondaries, might produce in air huge airshowers: such a huge amplified signal, in...
Detecting ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrinos is a challenging task because fluxes are low, and the interaction cross-sections are minute. Motivated by the detection of high-energy neutrinos with IceCube, we are developing a compact Cherenkov telescope to detect Earth-skimming (UHE) neutrinos from a high-altitude balloon flight. The 1 m diameter Schmidt telescope has a 512-pixel...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton multi-purpose Liquid Scintillator (LS) detector currently being built in a dedicated underground laboratory in Jiangmen (PR China). JUNO’ s main physics goal is the determination of the neutrino mass ordering using electron anti-neutrinos from two nuclear power plants at a baseline of about 53 km. JUNO aims for an unprecedented...
Developed as NASA Astrophysics Probe-class mission, the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to observe cosmic neutrinos and to identify the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with full-sky coverage for both of these extremely energetic messengers. POEMMA consists of two spacecraft flying in a loose formation at 525 km altitudes. Each spacecraft...
Cosmic-ray accelerators capable of reaching ultra-high energies are expected to also produce very-high energy neutrinos via hadronic interactions within the source. Many of the candidate astrophysical source classes are either transient in nature or exhibit flaring activity. Leveraging the Earth as a neutrino converter, the Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) will be able to...
The Trinity Observatory is a proposed ultra high energy (UHE) neutrino detector with a core-energy range of 10^6 GeV-10^10 GeV, bridging the observational gap between IceCube and radio UHE detectors like GRAND. It is a system of air-shower imaging telescopes that detect Earth-skimming tau neutrinos from multiple mountain tops. The telescopes have a novel-design 10x60-degree rectangular wide...
A neutrino source based on decay of an intense muon beam would make an ideal source for measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters. Muon beams may be created through the decay of pions produced in the interaction of a proton beam with a target. The muons are subsequently accelerated and injected into a storage ring where they decay producing a beam of neutrinos. Cooling of the muon beam...
The ENUBET experiment, included in the CERN Neutrino Platform effort as NP06/ENUBET, is developing a new neutrino beam based on conventional techniques in which the flux and the flavor composition are known with unprecedented precision ($\mathcal{O}$(1%)). Such a goal is accomplished by monitoring the associated charged leptons produced in the decay region of the ENUBET facility. Positrons and...
The nuSTORM facility uses a stored muon beam to generate a neutrino source. Muons are captured and stored in a storage ring using stochastic injection. The facility will aim to measure neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections with uniquely well-characterised neutrino beams; to facilitate the search for sterile neutrino and other Beyond Standard Model processes with exquisite sensitivity; and...
The 5 MW ESSnuSB proton beam represents an outstanding opportunity to create a sufficiently intense neutrino Super Beam to enable measurement of leptonic CP violation with a megaton water Cherenkov detector placed at the three time more distant second neutrino oscillation maximum, where the CP-violating term in the neutrino oscillation probability is significantly larger at the oscillation...
The DARWIN observatory is a future dark matter detector containing 40 tons of liquid xenon in an active volume of a dual-phase time projection chamber. An ultra low intrinsic radioactivity, large mass, low threshold and good energy resolution make DARWIN a suitable tool to perform a wide range of neutrino physics measurements. Natural xenon contains approximately 9% of ${}^{136}$Xe that is...
When the 5 MW, 2.5 GeV, 1.3 ms proton pulses hit the ESSnuSB neutrino target there will be a copious production of not only neutrinos but also of muons. These muons could be used for precise neutrino cross-section measurements and sterile neutrino searches in a low energy nuSTORM facility and for high precision PMNS parameter measurements in a Neutrino Factory. An overview will be given of the...
The intense beam of muon and electron neutrinos with precisely known energy distributions provided by the stored-muon facility (nuSTORM) shall allow for a rich physics program with considerable impact in our understanding of fundamental properties of neutrinos and their interactions. In particular, the precision goals of the oscillation program can only be achieved with a realistic modeling of...
RES-NOVA is a new proposed experiment for the hunt of neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae (SN) via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) using an array of archaeological Pb-based cryogenic detectors. The high CEvNS cross-section on Pb and the ultra-high radiopurity of archaeological Pb enable the operation of a high statistics experiment equally sensitive to all neutrino...
Annihilation of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in the center of the sun($\odot$), earth($\oplus$) and the galaxy can give rise to neutrino-antineutrino pairs as their final products. We look at the prospects of detecting such neutrinos at the proposed 50-kt Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector, to be housed at the upcoming India-Based Neutrino Observatory (INO), wherein the...
The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (JUNO-TAO) is a satellite experiment of the JUNO detector. TAO consists of a ton-level liquid scintillator (LS) detector placed at ∼30 meters from a reactor core of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong, China.
The main purposes of TAO are to provide a reference antineutrino spectrum for JUNO, removing possible model dependencies in the...
Dark photon is a well-motivated hypothetical particle introduced to explain BSM hints revealed in several independent experiments. A 3 kton-scale neutrino detector to be proposed in Yemilab, currently under construction in Korea can shed light on dark photon search using 100 MeV electron beam striking on a thick tungsten target. Best direct search sensitivity is expected for dark photons with...
The ENUBET project aims at reducing the flux related systematics on a narrow band neutrino beam through the monitoring of the associated charged leptons in an instrumented decay tunnel.
A key element of the project is the design of a meson transfer line with conventional magnets that maximizes the yield of $K^+$ and $\pi^+$, while minimizing the total length to reduce meson decays in the not...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is the next generation long-baseline experiment for neutrino physics. DUNE will measure the oscillation probabilities of neutrinos and antineutrinos at unprecedented precision to quantify the Charge-Parity (CP) violation effects in the leptonic sector and shed light on the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe along with supernovae, solar...
The precision measurement of neutrino parameters can be achieved by studying $\nu _\mu \to \nu_e$ oscillations over a large $L/E$ range. In the context of long baseline neutrino experiments (with fixed $L$), this amounts to examining oscillations over a wide energy range. Most of the current and future long baseline experiments such as Deep Underground neutrino experiment (DUNE) are mainly...
The ND-GAr, or Near-Detector gaseous argon detector, is one of the proposed components of the future DUNE near detector complex. It has been designed to achieve low detection thresholds and high acceptance. The ND-GAr characteristics make it an optimal detector to study neutrino interactions which is crucial for measuring leptonic CP violation. In this talk the physics potential of the ND-GAr...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment which utilizes liquid argon TPC technology. The far detector will be in Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, USA. An external neutron source based on a DD (Deuterium-Deuterium) generator can be used to calibrate the detector parameters. The single-phase and dual-phase...
Long-baseline neutrino experiments using megaton scale water Cerenkov far detectors can accumulate very large neutrino samples - $\mathcal{O}(10^3) \nu_e
\rm{/ year}$ - even with moderate beam intensity - $\mathcal{O}(100)$kW. The
presentation will show that at these intensities it is possible to instrument the beam with charged particle silicon pixel trackers to reconstruct precisely the...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a 20 kton liquid scintillator experiment currently under construction in the vicinity of the Pearl River Delta in Southern China. Its main focus lies on the determination of the Neutrino Mass Ordering via measuring the oscillated spectrum of electron anti-neutrinos from two nuclear power plants in 53 km distance each. JUNO requires to...
According to the baseline design of the 5 MW accelerator under construction in Lund, Sweden, its duty cycle will be only 4%, which leaves room for increasing the beam power and duty cycle to 10 MW and 8%, respectively. The linac power upgrade will be realized by increasing the linac pulse frequency from 14 to 28 Hz. The ESS linac pulse is 3 ms long which is too long for the cosmic ray-related...
