symmetry breaking and violation in the neutrino mass matrix

T Fukuyama, Y Mimura - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The μ-τ exchange symmetry in the neutrino mass matrix and its breaking as a perturbation
are discussed. The exact μ-τ symmetry restricts the 2-3 and 1-3 neutrino mixing angles as θ …

Study of dielectric breakdown in liquid xenon with XeBrA: The xenon breakdown apparatus

J Watson, I Olcina, J Soria, DN McKinsey… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Maintaining the electric fields necessary for the current generation of noble liquid time
projection chambers (TPCs), with drift lengths exceeding 1 m, requires a large negative …

Unpaired Image Translation to Mitigate Domain Shift in Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Detector Responses

Y Huang, D Torbunov, B Viren, H Yu, J Huang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Deep learning algorithms often are trained and deployed on different datasets. Any
systematic difference between the training and a test dataset may degrade the algorithm …

Sensitivity to Heavy Neutral Leptons with the SAND detector at the DUNE ND complex

ZG Moghaddam - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01899, 2022 - arxiv.org
Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) have been an interesting topic for experimental particle
physics in the past few years. A study has been performed within the framework of the multi …

First Operation of a Resistive Shell Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber: A New Approach to Electric-Field Shaping

R Berner, Y Chen, A Ereditato, PP Koller, I Kreslo… - Instruments, 2019 - mdpi.com
We present a new technology for the shaping of the electric field in Time Projection
Chambers (TPCs) using a carbon-loaded polyimide foil. This technology allows for the …

Neutrino Oscillation Analysis of 217 Live Days of Daya Bay and 500 Live Days of RENO

MA Acero, AA Aguilar-Arevalo… - Advances in High …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a neutrino oscillation analysis of two particular data sets from the Daya Bay and
RENO reactor neutrino experiments aiming to study the increase in precision in the …

Measurement of the kaon production normalization in the NuMI target using uncontained charged-current muon neutrino interactions in the NOvA Far Detector

JA Sepulveda-Quiroz - 2018 - search.proquest.com
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that uses the NuMI beam from
Fermilab. Its physics goals include providing constraints to the neutrino mass hierarchy and …

Novel approaches to high-power proton beams

J Eldred - arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05576, 2020 - arxiv.org
The potentially realizable beam power at the Fermilab long-baseline neutrino program has
motivated a reinvigorated design and optimization effort for a rapid-cycling synchrotron …

A hybrid 3D/2D field response calculation for liquid argon detectors with PCB based anode plane

S Martynenko, F Pietropaolo, B Viren… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology is commonly utilized
in neutrino detector designs. It enables detailed reconstruction of neutrino events with high …

From light neutrino decay phenomenology to muon neutrino cross-section measurement at MINERvA experiment

MV Ascencio-Sosa - 2022 - osti.gov
This thesis tackles two essential topics of neutrino physics: neutrino decay and neutrino
cross-section measurement. First, the invisible and visible neutrino decay is analyzed …