Conveners
Neutrinos - Experimental
- Mario A Acero (Universidad del Atlantico)
- Enrique Arrieta Diaz (Universidad del Magdalena)
- David Vanegas Forero (Universidad de Medellín)
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a multi-purpose neutrino experiment under construction at a baseline of roughly 52.5 km from 8 nuclear reactors in China. JUNO will use an acrylic sphere containing 20 kton of liquid scintillator surrounded by about 18,000+25,000 (20-inch + 3-inch) photomultiplier tubes immersed in ultrapure water as the primary neutrino target. In...
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) is an above-ground antineutrino experiment at short baselines located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The PROSPECT detector comprises 4-tons of Li-6 doped liquid scintillator (6LiLS) divided into an 11x14 array of optically separated segments. This experiment's physics goals...
The expected capabilities of Liquid Argon Time projection Chambers (LArTPCs) will allow for an impressive reconstruction of sub-GeV atmospheric neutrinos interactions in the future DUNE experiment. Since standard oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos are crucially dependent on the matter profile of the Earth, it will be possible to study the interior of our planet. Considering a realistic...
The nuclear recoil ionization efficiency or "quenching factor" (QF) plays a crucial role in low-threshold ionization type detectors used in dark matter searches, CE$\nu$NS detection, and in searches for new physics through this channel. We study the ionization efficiency of nuclear recoil in pure materials using a model based on Lindhard´s theory. We include the effect of atomic binding...
Ultra-high energy neutrinos (>10^16 GeV) are expected to be produced through cosmic-ray interactions with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This so-called cosmogenic flux of UHE neutrinos is a target of the next generation neutrino observatories: IceCube-Gen2, TAMBO, RNOG, GRAND, POEMMA, and CHANT. Many of these detectors rely on measuring the neutrino interaction either directly at the...
SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in a hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < 𝜂 < 8.6, complementary to all the other experiments at the LHC. The experiment is to be located 480 m downstream of IP1 in the unused TI18 tunnel. The detector is composed of a hybrid system based on an 800 kg target mass of...
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for 0νββ decay that has been able to reach the one-tonne mass scale. The detector, located at the LNGS in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of...
IceCube’s discovery of astrophysical neutrinos, and subsequent characterization of their energy spectrum up to a few PeV, has provided a new window to the high-energy Universe. A series of next-generation experiments aim to discover neutrinos with ultra-high energies, optimizing their sensitivity in the EeV range. However, many opportunities for discovery still remain in the study of the...
