New Perspectives 2015

Session

Session 3 - Reactor Neutrinos, and More!

8 Jun 2015, 13:30

1 West (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

Session chair: Mateus Carneiro

Contribution list Timetable

57. PROSPECT: A Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment

Mr Pranava Teja Surukuchi (Illinois Institute of Technology)

08/06/2015, 13:30

Current reactor antineutrino production models predict an antineutrino spectrum shape and normalization which are inconsistent with the existing reactor antineutrino measurements. These discrepancies could be due to the lack of understanding of the underlying nuclear physics leading to imperfect reactor antineutrino production models. Sterile neutrinos with an eV-scale mass splitting could...

49. Background and Detector Response Studies With PROSPECT Prototype Detectors

Mr XIANYI ZHANG (ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)

08/06/2015, 13:45

PROSPECT, the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, is a short baseline experiment to measure the reactor antineutrino spectrum from a highly-enriched U-235 reactor. For this purpose, PROSPECT will utilize an antineutrino target composed of optically segmented Li-6 loaded liquid scintillator cells with one PMT on each end of each cell. Recently, two meter-long, 23 liter...

72. Progress Made with the Double Chooz Time Projection Chamber (DCTPC) Neutron Detector

Ms Hexley Allie (MIT)

08/06/2015, 14:00

DCTPC detects fast neutron events at the Double Chooz reactor-based neutrino oscillation experiment in France. Understanding neutron background as a function of energy and depth is relevant for multiple experiments around the world, including those trying to measure dark matter, low energy neutrino, and neutrinoless double beta decay. DCTPC allows us to produce a three dimensional image of a...

84. Fast Neutron Detection with MITPC at Fermilab

Marjon Moulai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08/06/2015, 14:15

MITPC, formerly known as DCTPC, is a neutron detector that has completed runs at Double Chooz and will begin running on the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beamline this summer. The neutron rates measured by MITPC will serve the Short-Baseline Neutrino program. MITPC is a gas-based time projection chamber which has used a mix of He-4 and CF4 in previous runs, but will use a mix of Ne and CF4 at...

51. ANNIE: Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment

Erika Catano Mur (Iowa State University)

08/06/2015, 14:30

Neutron tagging in Gadolinium-doped water may play a significant role in reducing backgrounds from atmospheric neutrinos in next generation proton-decay searches using Megaton-scale Water Cherenkov detectors. A similar technique is also useful in the detection of Supernova neutrinos. In this talk we discuss the Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE), designed to measure...

59. Sensitivity Study of Resonance Interaction in a Fine-Grained Tracker Detector

Hongyue Duyang (university of south carolina)

08/06/2015, 14:45

We present sensitivity studies for the neutrino induced resonance interaction (RES) in a fine-grained tracker detector (FGT), the reference near detector for LBNE and, possibly, DUNE. We use fast MC to study the cross-section and kinematics of the resonance processes, and use the resonance measurements to constrain the nuclear effects. The FGT-analysis is extended to the high-resolution...