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Neutrino Scattering on Glass: NuSOnG
These proceedings describe the physics goals and initial design for a new experiment: NuSOnG—Neutrino Scattering On Glass. The design will yield about two orders of magnitude higher statistics than previous high energy neutrino experiments, observed in a detector optimized for low hadronic energy and electromagnetic events. As a result, the purely weak processes νμ+e−→νμ+e− and νμ+e−→νe+μ− (inverse muon decay) can be measured with high accuracy for the first time. This allows important precision electroweak tests and well as direct searches for new physics. The high statistics also will yield the world's largest sample of Deep Inelastic (DIS) events for precision parton distribution studies.
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Recent Results on Neutrino Oscillations
This article reviews the many new results from neutrino oscillation searches which were presented at ICHEP '98. Exciting indications of neutrino oscillations have been seen in the solar neutrino deficit, atmospheric neutrino deficit and LSND excess. These indications and reported limits on oscillations are considered. Attempts to develop a theory which addresses all of the neutrino oscillation data are discussed. Some of the remaining questions and the future experiments which will help answer these questions are described.
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A measurement of the absorption of liquid argon scintillation light by dissolved nitrogen at the part-per-million level
We correct a mistake in the calculation of the molecular absorption cross section of nitrogen, and a minor plot labelling mistake, which were found after publication of this paper.
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A review of experimental results on neutrino oscillations
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The 1994 Fermilab Fixed Target Program
This paper highlights the results of the Fermilab Fixed Target Program that were announced between October, 1993 and October, 1994. These results are drawn from 18 experiments that took data in the 1985, 1987 and 1990/91 fixed target running periods. For this discussion, the Fermilab Fixed Target Program is divided into 5 major topics: hadron structure, precision electroweak measurements, heavy quark production, polarization and magnetic moments, and searches for new phenomena. However, it should be noted that most experiments span several subtopics. Also, measurements within each subtopic often affect the results in other subtopics. For example, parton distributions from hadron structure measurements are used in the studies of heavy quark production.
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A prototype detector for directional measurement of the cosmogenic neutron flux
This paper describes a novel directional neutron detector. The low pressure time projection chamber uses a mix of helium and CF4 gases. The detector reconstructs the energy and angular distribution of fast neutron recoils. This paper reports results of energy calibration using an source and angular reconstruction studies using a collimated neutron source. The best performance is obtained with a 12.5% CF4 { 87.5% He gas mixture. At low energies the target for fast neutrons transitions is primarily helium, while at higher energies, the uorine contributes as a target. The reconstruction eciency is both energy and target dependent. For neutrons with energies less than 20 MeV, the reconstruction eciency is 40% for uorine recoils and 60% for helium recoils.
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The IceCube Prototype String in AMANDA
The Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) is a high-energy neutrino telescope. It is a lattice of optical modules (OM) installed in the clear ice below the South Pole Station. Each OM contains a photomultiplier tube (PMT) that detects photons of Cherenkov light generated in the ice by muons and electrons. ICECUBE is a cubic-kilometer-sized expansion of AMANDA currently being built at the South Pole. In ICECUBE the PMT signals are digitized already in the optical modules and transmitted to the surface. A prototype string of 41 OMs equipped with this new all-digital technology was deployed in the AMANDA array in the year 2000. In this paper we describe the technology and demonstrate that this string serves as a proof of concept for the ICECUBE array. Our investigations show that the OM timing accuracy is 5 ns. Atmospheric muons are detected in excellent agreement with expectations with respect to both angular distribution and absolute rate. r 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 07.05.Hd; 07.07.Hj; 07.50.Qx; 29.40.Ka; 95.55.Vj; 95.85.Ry; 96.40.Tv
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Response of AMANDA-II to Cosmic Ray Muons
The high flux of down-going muon detected by the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope is used as a test beam to check the experiment systematics and to improve the knowledge of its response. This work shows the result of the effort to get a better understanding of AMANDA-II performance, an improved data filter and event reconstruction. The preliminary experimental down-going muon angular and depth intensities are compared with Monte Carlo prediction, other experimental results and theoretical calculations. A good agreement is found within systematic uncertainties.
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Anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background from dark matter with Fermi LAT: a closer look
This thesis addresses the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background, as measured by the Fermi gamma ray space telescope, and its implications for indirect detection of dark matter. We describe the measurement of the isotropic background, including also an alternative analysis method besides the one published by the Fermi-LAT collaboration. The measured isotropic diffuse background is compatible with a power law differential energy spectrum with a spectral index of -2.41 ± 0.05 and -2.39 ± 0.08, for the two analysis methods respectively. This is a softer spectrum than previously reported by the EGRET experiment. This rules out any dominant contribution with a significantly different shape, e.g. from dark matter, in the energy range 20 MeV to 102.4 GeV. Instead we present upper limits on a signal originating from annihilating dark matter of extragalactic origin. The uncertainty in the dark matter signal is primarily dependent on the cosmological evolution of the dark matter distribution. We use recent N-body simulations of structure formation, as well as a semi-analytical calculation, to assess this uncertainty. We investigate three main annihilation channels and find that in some, but not in all, of our scenarios we can start to probe, and sometimes rule out, interesting parameter spaces of particle physics models beyond the standard model.We also investigate the possibility to use the angular anisotropies of the annihilation signal to separate it from a background originating from conventional sources, e.g. from active galactic nuclei. By carefully modelling the performance of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and galactic foregrounds we find that this method could be as sensitive as using information from the energy spectrum only.
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Minimum bias triggers in proton-proton collisions with VZERO and pixel detectors
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Discovery and Upper Limits in Search for Exotic Physics with Neutrino Telescopes
This note gives a short review of the statistical issues concerning upper limit calculation and claiming of discovery arising in the search for exotic physics with neutrino telescopes. Low sample sizes and significant instrumental uncertainties require special consideration. Methods for treating instrumental or theoretical uncertainties in the calculation of limits or discovery are described. Software implementing these methods is presented. The issue of optimization of analysis cuts and definition of sensitivity is briefly discussed.