Neutrino Physics in Present and Future Kamioka Water-Čerenkov Detectors with Neutron Tagging. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pablo Fernández Menéndez.
• Authors: Fernández Menéndez, Pablo
• Contents: Intro; Supervisor's Foreword; Abstract; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Introduction to Neutrino Physiscs; 2.1 Main Neutrino Sources; 2.1.1 Atmospheric Neutrinos; 2.1.2 Accelerator Neutrinos; 2.1.3 Solar Neutrinos; 2.1.4 Reactor Neutrinos; 2.2 Supernova Neutrinos; 2.2.1 Supernova Burst; 2.2.2 Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background; 2.3 Neutrino Mass and Neutrino Oscillations; 2.3.1 Neutrino Masses; 2.3.2 Neutrino Oscillations; 2.3.3 Experimental Status; 2.4 Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions; References; 3 The Super-Kamiokande Detector; 3.1 Detector Overview 3.2 Čerenkov Radiation3.3 Detector Description; 3.3.1 Water Tank; 3.3.2 Photomultipliers; 3.4 Water and Air Purification Systems; 3.5 SK-IV Electronics and Data Acquisition; 3.6 Calibration of the Detector; References; 4 The SuperK-Gd Project; 4.1 Gadolinium-Neutron Tagging; 4.2 Gadolinium Addition to Super-Kamiokande; 4.3 Main Physics Outcomes; 4.3.1 Low Energy; 4.3.2 High Energy; 4.4 EGADS R&D Program and Experiment; 4.4.1 Detector Description; 4.4.2 Water Purification System; 4.4.3 Data Acquisition System; 4.4.4 PMT Pre-Calibration; 4.4.5 Detector Construction and Instrumentation 4.4.6 Monitoring and Main Results of the EGADS ProgramReferences; 5 On Relevant Items for SuperK-Gd Physics; 5.1 Neutron Production in Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions; 5.2 Gd-Neutron Tagging Reconstruction; 5.2.1 Monte Carlo Simulation; 5.2.2 Neutron Tagging Algorithm; 5.2.3 Overall Gd-Neutron Tagging Efficiency; 5.3 Classification of Charged Current and Neutral Current Interactions; 5.4 Neutrino-Antineutrino Separation; 5.5 Neutron-Corrected Reconstructed Neutrino Energy; 5.6 Radioactive Contamination 6.6.2 Neutral Current and Charged Current Separation for Fully Contained Samples6.6.3 Neutrino and Antineutrino Separation for Fully Contained Samples; 6.6.4 Neutron-Corrected Reconstructed Neutrino Energy for Fully Contained Samples; 6.6.5 Oscillation Analysis Sensitivity; 6.7 Long-Baseline Neutrinos; 6.7.1 The T2K Experiment; 6.7.2 Monte Carlo Simulation and Gd-Neutron Tagging; 6.7.3 T2K Neutrino Event Selection; 6.7.4 Neutrino-Antineutrino Separation; 6.7.5 Neutron-Corrected Reconstructed Neutrino Energy; 6.7.6 Oscillation Analysis
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 539.7/213; Physics; Neutrons -- Capture; Neutron counters; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory; Neutron counters; Neutrons -- Capture; Science -- Nuclear Physics; Science -- Cosmology; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); Relativity physics; Particle acceleration; Quantum theory; Particle & high-energy physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319950860
• Related ISBNs: 331995086X; 9783319950853; 3319950851
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 25, 2018).
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