16–22 giu 2024
Milano
Europe/Rome fuso orario

Neutrino Beam Simulations for the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment and target alternatives

18 giu 2024, 17:30
2O
Near Aula Magna (U6 building) (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Near Aula Magna (U6 building)

University of Milano-Bicocca

Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milano, 20126
Poster Accelerator neutrinos Poster session and reception 1

Relatore

Dr. Lucas Nascimento Machado (University of Glasgow)

Descrizione

A simulation of the neutrino beam for the upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) experiment is essential for predicting neutrino fluxes accurately at the near and far detectors, which is crucial for measuring various neutrino oscillation parameters such as mixing angles, mass differences and the CP-violating phase. G4Jnubeam is a new beam simulation software based on the GEANT4 package currently under development for Hyper-K. It has been designed to simulate all aspects of neutrino production including proton beam simulation, decays of hadrons and muons into neutrinos, and ultimately the neutrino incident fluxes at both the near and far detectors. Additionally, G4Jnubeam is used to investigate alternative target configurations for the Hyper-K design that can lead to reduced wrong-sign contaminations in neutrino beam flux calculations. Some simulation results for validation against external hadron production measurements from the NA61/SHINE experiment, neutrino flux predictions for the Hyper-K near and far detectors, and the effects of having a longer and denser target on the neutrino beam production are presented.

Poster prize Yes
Given name Lucas
Surname Nascimento Machado
First affiliation University of Glasgow
Institutional email lucas.nascimentomachado@glasgow.ac.uk
Gender Male
Collaboration (if any) Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration

Autore principale

Dr. Lucas Nascimento Machado (University of Glasgow)

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