The IceCube Neutrino Observatory continuously monitors the sky and issues real-time alerts for high-energy neutrinos and flares, enabling multi-messenger observations. Since 2016, the Gamma-ray Follow-Up (GFU) program has distributed cluster alerts privately to partner Cherenkov telescopes, using pre-selected source lists to improve sensitivity over unbiased all-sky scans. A systematic update...
The Detector of the AntiNeutrino based on Solid Scintillator (DANSS) is placed near the reactor core of the Kalinin NPP (10.9-12.9 m) and acquires a very high statistics of antineutrino events. DANSS is placed on a mobile platform which allows measuring the far/near ratio using the same detector. One of the main goals of the experiment is to scrutinize the sterile neutrino hypothesis. A large...
The near detectors of the T2K experiment in Japan have been upgraded with the installation of a set of three new detectors. The HA-TPCs have a novel lightweight composite field cage that allows thinner walls while maximizing the tracking volume and reducing the detector's material budget. Its readout system, Encapsulated Resistive Anode Micromegas (ERAMs), uses innovative resistive Micromegas...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory, JUNO, is a massive neutirno experiment located in Kaiping, in south China. Currently under commissioning phase, it will exploit 20 kton of liquid scintillator, a mixture of LAB + 2.5 g/l PPO + 3 mg/l bis-MSB, whose detection process is based on the conversion of the energy deposited by interacting particles into light.
Thanks to its large...
In this talk, we take a close look at the interaction between the TeV-PeV energy astrophysical neutrinos and a hypothetical cosmic sterile-neutrino background. These interactions yield absorption features, also called ``dips", in the astrophysical neutrino spectrum, which are studied using the deposited energy distribution of high-energy starting events (HESE) in the IceCube detector. We...
The ICARUS T600 LAr-TPC detector is presently taking at Fermilab within the SBN program. This detector is recording neutrino interactions from the Booster BNB neutrino beam to definitively clarify the open questions related to the possible existence of sterile neutrinos, as suggested by numerous observed experimental anomalies. In addition the neutrinos recorded from the off-axis NuMI beam...
In recent years, the popularity of escape rooms has grown significantly. In these games players work as a team, solving puzzles in a limited amount of time in order to achieve a common objective - typically escaping from a locked room. Beyond entertainment, this kind of games have already been shown to be engaging and effective tools in science education.
In this contribution, we present...
The Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) neutrino experiment is currently under construction in Japan, with data taking scheduled to begin in early 2028. The detector will be a huge tank filled with 258 kton of ultrapure water divided into Inner Detector (ID) and Outer Detector
(OD). More than 20000 50-cm PMTs and 800 multi-PMTs will face the inside of the ID, while the OD will be equipped with...
One of the most striking phenomena involving neutrinos is Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS), a process in which the neutrino interacts coherently with the entire nucleus, significantly enhancing the interaction cross-section.
Predicted by Freedman in 1973 and first observed in 2017, CEνNS is a purely weak neutral current process, with a cross-section that scales with the...
The Euclid Escape Room is an Outreach project developed by the University of Padova and the INFN Euclid Group, it is officially endorsed by the Euclid International Collaboration.
It is part of the efforts related to the European Researchers' Night, the first version of the game was developed in September 2022 and then updated every year with material describing the Euclid satellite launch...
In this talk, we revisit the one-loop renormalization group equations (RGEs) among non-degenerate seesaw scales, i.e., threshold effects in the canonical seesaw mechanism, which have been obtained for more than two decades. Different from the previous work only focusing on the Weinberg operator, we derive the complete one-loop RGEs of all three dimension-five operators in the Standard Model...
The T2K experiment is a long baseline neutrino experiment, located in
Japan. It studies neutrino oscillations by detecting accelerator
neutrinos with a complex of near detectors and a far detector. ND280,
one of the near detectors, provides a reduction of the neutrino flux and
cross section uncertainties and performs cross section measurements.
The new features of the upgraded ND280...
Searches for significant astrophysical neutrino emissions in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory are an important cornerstone in multi-messenger astronomy. By combining neutrino data with observations from other cosmic messengers from different telescopes and identifying spatial and temporal correlations, a rich picture of the panorama of astrophysical emissions can be achieved. IceCube has been...
