scholarly journals The MicroBooNE Search For Anomalous Electron Neutrino Appearance Using Image Based Data Reconstruction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Genty
Keyword(s):  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Data Reconstruction ◽  
Electron Neutrino Appearance

scholarly journals Latest Results from the T2K Neutrino Experiment

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Dean Karlen ◽  
on behalf of the TtwoK Collaboration
Keyword(s):  
Cp Violation ◽  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Muon Neutrino ◽  
Neutrino Experiment ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Neutrino Oscillation Experiment ◽  
Electron Neutrino Appearance ◽  
Oscillation Experiment

The T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment measures muon neutrino disappearance and electron neutrino appearance in accelerator-produced neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. This presentation reports on the analysis of our data from an exposure of 2 . 6 × 10 21 protons on target. Results for oscillation parameters, including the CP violation parameter and neutrino mass ordering, are shown.

scholarly journals Parallel Event Selection on HPC Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 04059
Author(s):  
Marc Paterno ◽  
Jim Kowalkowski ◽  
Saba Sehrish
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Recent Measurement ◽  
Data Format ◽  
Event Selection ◽  
Full Dataset ◽  
Table Data ◽  
Electron Neutrino Appearance

In their recent measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters, NOvA uses a sample of approximately 25 million reconstructed spills to search for electron-neutrino appearance events. These events are stored in an n-tuple format, in 250 thousand ROOT files. File sizes range from a few hundred KiB to a few MiB; the full dataset is approximately 1.4 TiB. These millions of events are reduced to a few tens of events by the application of strict event selection criteria, and then summarized by a handful of numbers each, which are used in the extraction of the neutrino oscillation parameters. The NOvA event selection code is currently a serial C++ program that reads these n-tuples. The current table data format and organization and the selection/ reduction processing involved provides us with an opportunity to explore alternate approaches to represent the data and implement the processing. We represent our n-tuple data in HDF5 format that is optimized for the HPC environment and which allows us to use the machine’s high-performance parallel I/O capabilities. We use MPI, numpy and h5py to implement our approach and compare the performance with the existing approach. We study the performance implications of using thousands of small files of different sizes as compared with one large file using HPC resources. This work has been done as part of the SciDAC project, “HEP analytics on HPC” in collaboration with the ASCR teams at ANL and LBNL.

scholarly journals First Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance in NOvA

2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Adamson ◽  
C. Ader ◽  
M. Andrews ◽  
N. Anfimov ◽  
I. Anghel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Electron Neutrino Appearance

scholarly journals Roles of sterile neutrinos in particle physics and cosmology

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 1930005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sin Kyu Kang
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Sterile Neutrino ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Type I ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Short Baseline ◽  
Cosmological Observations ◽  
Cosmological Data ◽  
Electron Neutrino Appearance

The impacts of the light sterile neutrino hypothesis in particle physics and cosmology are reviewed. The observed short baseline neutrino anomalies challenging the standard explanation of neutrino oscillations within the framework of three active neutrinos are addressed. It is shown that they can be interpreted as the experimental hints pointing towards the existence of sterile neutrino at the eV scale. While the electron neutrino appearance and disappearance data are in favor of such a sterile neutrino, the muon disappearance data disfavor it, which gives rise to a strong appearance–disappearance tension. After a brief review on the cosmological effects of light sterile neutrinos, proposed signatures of light sterile neutrinos in the existing cosmological data are discussed. The keV-scale sterile neutrinos as possible dark matter candidates are also discussed by reviewing different mechanisms of how they can be produced in the early Universe and how their properties can be constrained by several cosmological observations. We give an overview of the possibility that keV-scale sterile neutrino can be a good DM candidate and play a key role in achieving low-scale leptogenesis simultaneously by introducing a model where an extra light sterile neutrino is added on top of type I seesaw model.

scholarly journals Long-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Feldman ◽  
J. Hartnell ◽  
T. Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Unknown Parameters ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Oscillatory Pattern ◽  
Oscillation Phenomenon ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Good Energy ◽  
Electron Neutrino Appearance

A review of accelerator long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments is provided, including all experiments performed to date and the projected sensitivity of those currently in progress. Accelerator experiments have played a crucial role in the confirmation of the neutrino oscillation phenomenon and in precision measurements of the parameters. With a fixed baseline and detectors providing good energy resolution, precise measurements of the ratio of distance/energy (L/E) on the scale of individual events have been made and the expected oscillatory pattern resolved. Evidence for electron neutrino appearance has recently been obtained, opening a door for determining the CP violating phase as well as resolving the mass hierarchy and the octant ofθ23; some of the last unknown parameters of the standard model extended to include neutrino mass.

Electron Neutrino Appearance in the MINOS Experiment

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayly C. Sanchez ◽  
Osamu Yasuda ◽  
Naba Mondal ◽  
Chihiro Ohmori ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Neutrino ◽  
Electron Neutrino Appearance
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