Conveners
Parallel Session 2
- Ekaterini Tzamariudaki (NCSR Demokritos)
The Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment, operated from December 2011 to December 2020, has gathered a record amount of statistical data on reactor neutrino interactions. Antineutrinos from 6 reactor cores were detected through inverse beta decay and identified through neutron capture on gadolinium or hydrogen using eight functionally identical detectors located in three experiment halls. ...
I will review the story of Borexino at Gran Sasso in the light of our understanding of the working principle of the Sun with the original hypotesis put forth by Bethe, Gamow and von Weiszacker in 1938. From the design to the radiopurity tests and the evolution of the project, the solution of several technical challenges led to a thorough real-time understanding of the nuclear reactions taking...
The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a critical probe for testing the Majorana nature of neutrinos, a key question in particle physics. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of the KamLAND-Zen experiment, one of the leading efforts in this search. I will focus on the data analysis of our latest results, which offer new insights into the...
Observation of neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay can reveal the neutrino properties beyond the Standard Model. AMoRE searches for the 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay of molybdenum-100 using the isotope in the form of scintillation crystals equipped with the cryogenic detector system in the underground laboratory. In the first two phases of AMoRE using...
NOvA is a long-baseline, accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiment, optimized for electron neutrino measurements. It utilizes the upgraded, Megawatt-capable NuMI beam from Fermilab to measure electron-neutrino appearance and muon-neutrino disappearance at its Far Detector in Ash River, Minnesota. NOvA's goals include resolving the neutrino mass hierarchy problem, constraining the...
Modelling and reconstructing neutrino-nucleus scattering is difficult, but it is crucial to do it precisely to enable next-generation oscillation measurements. Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs), such as MicroBooNE, can be the tool for this job as they are excellent precision neutrino detectors with their ability to produce detailed three-dimensional interaction images and precise...
