The Mu2e experiment will search for the CLFV process of coherent, neutrinoless $\mu^- \rightarrow e^-$ conversion in the field of an Al nucleus. The expected signal is a 104.97 MeV monochromatic conversion electron (CE). The signature feature of Mu2e is the superconducting solenoidal magnetic system that produces a high intensity pulsed muon beam. One of the backgrounds to the CE search is...
The LHC offers a unique environment to study neutrinos in the intermediate energy range between those produced in fixed-target accelerator experiments and high-energy astrophysical sources. The FASER experiment takes advantage of the intense, highly collimated flux of light hadrons produced at Interaction Point 1 (IP1) to probe high-energy collider neutrinos. Using the electronic detector...
The "Buddy System" Program is a networking initiative that encourages new connections between collaborators to be formed during collaboration meetings. A survey is sent before upcoming meetings, asking both in-person and virtual attendees who are interested to fill out the form to be matched with 1-2 other collaborators. Based on the responses, including a ranking system for how they want the...
The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment aiming to measure CP-violation in the lepton sector. So far, T2K has shown results that disfavor CP conservation with a confidence level of 90%. One of the major systematic uncertainties in the current oscillation analysis is the electron-neutrino cross-section. To reduce these uncertainties, the near...
Neutrino experiments rely on complex and computationally expensive detector simulations to predict observable quantities from neutrino interaction models. The significant cost of these simulations limits the feasibility to generate new detector-level events for changes in the interaction model. An approach often used is to produce a new simulation of only the interaction model, which is much...
T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a long-baseline neutrino experiment based in Japan, designed to measure neutrino oscillation parameters, including $ \theta_{13} $, $ \delta_{CP}$, $\theta_{23}$, and $\Delta m^2_{32}$. These parameters are determined by studying electron neutrino appearance probabilities and muon neutrino survival probabilities. In recent years, T2K has undergone significant upgrades...
Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation 20-kton liquid scintillator (LS) detector currently under commissioning. JUNO is capable of exploring various physics topics including atmospheric neutrino oscillations. While the atmospheric neutrino flux is initially composed exclusively of muon and electron neutrinos, a large number of them are expected to oscillate to...
The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment based in Japan, with the primary goal of measuring CP violation through comparing neutrino and antineutrino oscillations. The primary off-axis near detector, ND280, observes the neutrino beam before oscillation, and has the important role of constraining neutrino-nucleus interactions. This is a leading source of systematic...
For current and upcoming accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments, a precise understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions is crucial to attaining the desired sensitivity. Insufficient knowledge of the energy carried by undetected particles, particularly neutrons, produced in neutrino-nucleus interactions can distort the reconstructed neutrino energy spectrum and introduces bias in...
Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large-scale neutrino experiment located 700 meters underground in Southern China. JUNO is capable of detecting multiple types of neutrinos including atmospheric neutrinos which can undergo both charged current (CC) and neutral current (NC) interactions in the detector. In addition to the standard 3-flavor oscillation measured by CC...
Next-generation neutrino detectors will require new simulation and reconstruction software. For water and scintillator-based neutrino detectors, RATPAC is a leading simulation framework. The latest release,
RATPAC-TWO, brings several enhancements over the original version, improving both the usability and collaboration potential between experiments. With the 30-tonne BUTTON experiment at...
Since 1983 the Italian groups collaborating with Fermilab (US) have been running a 2-month summer training program for Master students. While in the first year the program involved only 4 physics students, in the following years it was extended to engineering students. Many students have extended their collaboration with Fermilab with their Master Thesis and PhD.
The program has involved...
The upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande experiment is a next generation water Cherenkov detector based in Japan. Using an upgraded JPARC neutrino beam, Hyper-K aims to make precision measurements of the CP violating phase $\delta_{CP}$, along with neutrinos from astrophysical sources, and proton decay. With a fiducial volume approximately eight times larger than its predecessor Super-Kamiokande,...
We study the dependence of neutrino-induced $\gamma/\pi^0$ production ($\stackrel{ {(-)}}{\nu_\mu} + A \to \stackrel{ {(-)}}{\nu_\mu}(\mu) +\gamma/\pi^0 + X$) on the target nucleus A, at the $\Delta$ resonance mass region.
We predict the ratio of the $\gamma / \pi^0$ production rates in NC and CC interactions and for $\nu_\mu$ and $\bar \nu_\mu$ beams:
- Argon target: $\sim$3.1\%...
PTOLEMY aims to measure the lowest neutrino mass by resolving the β-decay endpoint of tritium. A demonstrator, currently under construction at LNGS, will rely on amassing a solid-state source of atomic tritium; a cyclotron radiation-based background suppression system; a novel, compact EM filter; and an O(50meV)-precision spectrometer. PTOLEMY faces many novel technical challenges, and an...
The information regarding the mass of Earth and its internal structure has primarily been obtained through gravitational measurements and seismic studies, both of which rely on gravitational and electromagnetic interactions, respectively. However, neutrinos offer an independent method for exploring the Earth's interior by utilizing weak interactions, particularly through the effects of Earth’s...
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is a 112-ton scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) neutrino detector positioned in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab, as part of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program. The detector is currently collecting neutrino beam data. Located only 110 m from the neutrino production target, SBND is exposed to a very high flux of neutrinos and...
The next generation of neutrino experiments aims to provide high-precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters in order to reveal the major unknowns in neutrino physics. Among them, validating the three-neutrino flavor paradigm while testing the non-unitarity of the neutrino mixing matrix remains one of the most exciting, as it allows the
exploration of new physics...
Plastic scintillator detectors with 3D granularity and sub-nanosecond time resolution offer simultaneous particle tracking, identification, and calorimetry. However, achieving fine segmentation at scale remains a major challenge due to high manufacturing costs, extended production timelines, and stringent precision requirements. To overcome these barriers, the 3DET R&D collaboration has...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a cutting-edge long-baseline experiment under construction in the United States. DUNE will use a far detector (FD) and a near detector (ND) to sample a high-intensity neutrino beam produced at Fermilab. This experiment aims to conduct precise studies of neutrino oscillations, establish the ordering of neutrino masses, and investigate potential...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment with the primary goal of measuring the mass hierarchy and CP-violating phase. Neutrinos will be measured at two detector facilities, namely a Near Detector (ND) located at Fermilab close to where the neutrino beam is produced by the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and a Far...
We propose here a set of new methods involving probing and knocking with muons (PKMu). There is a wealth of rich physics to explore with GeV muon beams. Examples include but not limited to: muon scattering can occur at large angles, providing evidence of potential muon-philic dark matter or dark mediator candidates; muon-electron scattering can be used to detect new types of bosons associated...
T2K is a long-baseline experiment measuring neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by observing the disappearance of muon neutrinos, as well as the appearance of electron neutrinos, over a long 295km distance. The ND280 near detector at J-PARC plays a crucial role to minimise the systematic uncertainties related to the neutrino flux and neutrino-nucleus cross-sections as it measures the...
The J-PARC muon g-2/EDM experiment aims to precisely measure the anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment based on a novel low-emittance muon beam. Such a beam is realized by a muon linear accelerator following a cooled muon source, which allows to employ different techniques than the BNL and FNAL experiments such as a compact storage ring without electric focusing and track...
The neutrinos from STORed Muons (nuSTORM) facility enables precise neutrino physics studies through the use of innovative neutrino beams created by muon decay, which is characterised by well-defined flavour composition and energy spectra of the neutrino beam. Combined with precise muon flux measurements, with a final target of $\%$-level precision in neutrino flux determination, this will...
The e4nu collaboration investigates lepton-nucleus interactions to deepen our understanding of neutrino behavior in nuclear environments. By leveraging the similarities between electron-nucleus and neutrino-nucleus interactions, e4nu utilizes a broad phase space of exclusive electron scattering data. This data, collected on nuclear targets similar to those used in neutrino oscillation...
The off-axis magnetic near detector of the T2K experiment has recently completed a significant upgrade, including the construction and installation of two new Time Projection Chambers (TPC) equipped with innovative resistive Micromegas technology and a field cage composed of thin composite walls. In this presentation, we will give an overview of the design and key features of the new TPCs,...
The European Spallation Source Neutrino Super Beam + ( ESSnuSB+) project aims to make precision measurements of neutrino-nucleus interaction cross sections. To do this it will utilize the impact of a 1.25 MW proton pulse from the ESS (European Spallation Source) Linac on a target with the ultimate aim of creating a muon and electron neutrino beam from a muon decay ring (based on a low-energy...
The ESS Neutrino SuperBeam project (ESSnuSB) is a proposed neutrino long-baseline experiment at ESS, Lund, Swedem, which aims at measuring the leptonic CP-violating phase, $\delta_{CP}$. By using the high-intensity ESS linear accelerator to produce the world's brightest pulsed neutrino source, the measurement will reach a uniquely high precision. In order to further enhance the precision, the...
Resistive Plate Chambers are gaseous detectors extensively used in several domains of Physics given their excellent time and space resolution.
When operated in avalanche mode they make use of a high-performance high- Global Warming Potential gas mixture based on C2H2F4 and SF6, both fluorinated greenhouse components.
The RPC ECOGas@GIF++ Collaboration is carrying on an intense R&D...
The MUonE experiment at CERN aims to determine the leading-order hadronic contribution to the muon by an innovative approach, using elastic scattering of 160 GeV muons on atomic electrons in a low-Z target. The M2 beam line at CERN provides the necessary intensity needed to reach the statistical goal in few years of data taking. The experimental challenge relies in the precise control of the...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will utilize liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology to address key questions in neutrino physics, such as CP violation and the neutrino mass ordering. The Phase II Far Detector modules will employ vertical drift single-phase LArTPCs with an active volume of 13 m × 13 m × 60 m and dual anode planes. We propose a novel photon...
We present the implementation of the Martini–Ericson–Chanfray–Marteau RPA-based (anti)neutrino cross section model in the GENIE neutrino event generator. The implementation includes both the quasielastic (1p1h) and multinucleon (npnh) interaction channels. The presentation will begin with an overview of the theoretical foundations of the model. Validation steps are then discussed, along with...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, capable of resolving the neutrino mass hierarchy and CP-violation. DUNE will also be sensitive to supernova neutrinos and processes beyond the Standard Model. The Far Detector (FD) will consist of four liquid argon TPCs (17 kton each) equipped with systems for detecting...
Acceleration of cooled muons is a promising technology for realizing a low-emittance muon beam, which is essential for noble muon sciences such as precise measurements of the muon dipole moments and muon microscopy. This technology is being developed at the Material and Life science experimental Facility at J-PARC. There, muons are cooled down to thermal energy though Muonium formation...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline experiment that will determine neutrino mass ordering (> 5$\sigma$), discover leptonic CP violation if nearly maximal violation, precisely measure neutrino oscillation parameters, observe astrophysical neutrinos, and search for processes beyond the standard model. The experiment will consist of four modules of...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously measure the oscillation parameters in the high- and low-energy regimes. DUNE's liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology provides a charged-current (CC) and an elastic-scattering (ES) interaction channel that, when simultaneously exploited, enable precision measurements of the...
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) is one of three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detectors used in the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) programme at Fermilab. As the near detector in the SBN programme, the SBND is located just 100 metres from the target along the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB). SBND offers sensitivity to a broad range of new physics scenarios, including the...
Reliable theoretical modeling of neutrino-nucleus interactions is an essential requirement for current and next-generation neutrino-oscillation experiments, such as MicroBooNE and DUNE, which use argon as the target material. In this talk, I will present recent advancements in the treatment of the quasi-elastic (QE) channel in the NuWro Monte Carlo event generator. We implement the...
A high-intensity muon source named MuST has been proposed for several years at IMPCAS in China. Utilizing the 5-mA proton beam of CiADS linac on targets, multiple muon beamlines can be fed, and the intensity of the DC muon beam is expected to be record-breaking. Here, the conceptual layout of MuST, including the tandem targets, the muon beamlines, and the terminals, is presented. The plan and...
The Water Cherenkov Test Experiment (WCTE) at CERN is designed to test various technologies and techniques related to water Cherenkov detectors, which may later be implemented in the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. WCTE consists of 97 multi-PMT photosensors placed in a water tank (~3.8 m in diameter, ~3.6 m in height, total water mass ~41 tonnes). Each multi-PMT contains nineteen 3" PMTs and...
Our understanding of three-flavor neutrino oscillations has undergone significant improvement. However, most progress has come from studying $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$ while the $\nu_\tau$ remains the least explored particle in the Standard Model. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiment under construction, is designed to address this...
The upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande experiment is a next-generation water Cherenkov experiment which will be based in Japan. Hyper-K aims to make precision measurements of CP-violation and other neutrino oscillation parameters, atmospheric and solar neutrinos, supernova neutrinos, and proton decay. With a fiducial volume approximately eight times larger than its predecessor Super-Kamiokande, Hyper-K...
DUNE is the flagship next-generation neutrino experiment in the United States, designed to decisively measure neutrino CP violation and determine the mass hierarchy. It utilizes the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology, which provides exceptional spatial resolution and the potential to accurately identify final state particles and neutrino interactions. However, the...
The JUNO detector (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory), located in Jiangmen, southern China, is currently in its commissioning phase. Its main goal is to determine the neutrino mass ordering and to reduce uncertainties on oscillation parameters. Thanks to its huge liquid scintillator mass (20 kton), its high radiopurity and excellent energy resolution, JUNO is an ideal candidate to...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will search for the coherent, neutrinoless conversion of a negative muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus, an example of Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV). Observation of CLFV at Mu2e would be an unambiguous signal of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Mu2e aims to improve upon the current best sensitivity on the conversion rate by...
The poor knowledge of neutrino cross sections at the GeV scale is projected to be responsible for some of the leading sources of uncertainty in next-generation oscillation experiments. Building on the ideas and R&D from ENUBET and NuTAG, we present a proposal for the nuSCOPE experiment (see arXiv:2503.21589). nuSCOPE is a high-precision, short-baseline neutrino experiment at CERN that employs...
The ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER) is designed to search for particles produced in the far-forward region of pp collisions at the LHC at CERN. Its primary goals are to detect high-energy neutrinos and light, feebly interacting new particles predicted by extensions of the Standard Model. Since its inception in 2022, FASER has collected close to 200/fb of data during LHC Run 3, leading to...
ProtoDUNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) and one of the prototypes for the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Besides testing and improving LArTPC detection performance, ProtoDUNE goals also reside in exploring the interaction of charged particles with Liquid Argon to enhance the particle reconstruction capabilities for the future neutrino interactions in...
The KATRIN experiment is designed to measure the mass of the electron antineutrino by studying the high-energy end of the tritium β decay spectrum. In addition, KATRIN is also a well-suited instrument to explore the sterile neutrino hypothesis. The existence of sterile neutrinos would cause a kink-like distortion in the spectrum.
Using the same datasets as for active neutrino mass, KATRIN...
Long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments rely on the neutrinos from the decays of hadrons produced in hadron-nucleus interactions. Uncertainties in the hadron production yields from these interactions dominate the neutrino flux uncertainties in these beams. This talk will highlight recent results from CERN’s SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment (NA61/SHINE), which has produced...
The poor knowledge of neutrino cross sections at the GeV scale is projected to be responsible for some of the leading sources of uncertainty in next-generation oscillation experiments. Building on the ideas and R&D from ENUBET and NuTAG, we present a proposal for the nuSCOPE experiment (see arXiv:2503.21589). nuSCOPE is a high-precision, short-baseline neutrino experiment at CERN that employs...
Searches for charged lepton flavor violation in the muon sector stand out among the most sensitive and clean probes for physics beyond the Standard Model. Currently, $\mu^+ \to e^+ \gamma$ experiments provide the best constraints in this field and, in the coming years, new experiments investigating the processes of $\mu^+ \to e^+e^+e^-$ and $\mu \to e$ conversion in the nuclear field are...
In the global scientific effort to better understand how neutrinos fit (or don’t) within the bounds of the Standard Model, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) aims to make precise neutrino oscillation measurements to determine the neutrino mass ordering and determine the value of neutrino Charge-Parity (CP) violation. To accomplish this, DUNE has a host of near detectors that will...
Neutrino tagging is a new experimental approach for accelerator-based neutrino experiments. The method consists in associating a neutrino interaction with the meson decay (i.e. or ) in which the neutrino was originally produced. The properties of the neutrino can then be estimated kinematically from the decay incoming and outgoing charged particles. The reconstruction of these particles...
Current neutrino experiments are making world-leading measurements of the PMNS parameters and will continue to collect data and improve their analyses to push towards the precision era, which will be fully realised with the next generation of oscillation experiments. These next-generation experiments will not only be able to make precision measurements of the PMNS parameters but will also be...
The T2K experiment's primary off-axis near detector, ND280, has the essential role of constraining the main systematic uncertainties that affect neutrino oscillation measurements. Among the leading sources of these uncertainties are neutrino-nucleon interaction cross sections, which must be more precisely understood to fully exploit the potential of current and future long-baseline neutrino...
A high-intensity 30 GeV proton beam produced by the J-PARC Main Ring (MR) accelerator is used to generate one of the world’s most intense conventional neutrino beams, which plays a central role in J-PARC’s long-baseline neutrino program. This beam supports the ongoing T2K experiment and will provide accelerator neutrinos to the forthcoming Hyper-Kamiokande experiment, currently under...
Tests of lepton flavor conservation and universality offer a sensitive probe for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), with several BSM scenarios predicting deviations accessible at the CMS experiment. This contribution presents an overview of CMS results from searches for Lepton Flavor Violation (LFV) and Lepton Flavor Universality (LFU) violation in proton-proton collisions at a...
The Tokai-to-Kamiokande (T2K) experiment is a long-baseline neutrino experiment based in Japan. T2K obtained results that disfavour CP conservation with a 90% confidence level so far. The (anti)neutrino beam created at J-PARC is characterised at the near detector before measuring the oscillated spectrum using the Super-Kamiokande detector 296 km away. Toward more precise measurements of...
The T2K experiment has operated for over a decade using the on-axis near detector INGRID and ND280 as the primary near detector for oscillation and neutrino interaction physics at 2.5 degrees off-axis, both located at JPARC. Recent upgrades to T2K include an increased power at JPARC's neutrino beamline, detector upgrades to ND280, and the installation of a second near detector,...
The Standard Model predicts several rare Higgs boson processes, including decays into a Z boson and a photon, a low-mass lepton pair and a photon, or a meson and a photon. Observing these rare decays would offer new and complementary insights into the Higgs boson's coupling structure beyond the more commonly studied channels. In addition, searches for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the...
Precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters in the Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) long-baseline neutrino experiment require a robust and accurate understanding of neutrino–nucleus interactions. The T2K near detector complex, ND280, is specifically designed to constrain neutrino flux parameters and cross-section models through detailed analyses of neutrino interactions. As part of the...
We study a method to test the unitarity of the PMNS matrix by using only
the long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, such as the combination of
the T2HK experiment and the one with the $\nu_e$ beam from a future neutrino
factory at J-PARC. Without a specific parametrization, one can directly extract
the elements of the lepton mixing matrix by observing the energy dependence of
the...
MicroBooNE uses a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detector to investigate the observed anomalous low energy excess (LEE) of single electromagnetic shower events reported by the MiniBooNE experiment. After five years of data taking from two accelerator beamlines at Fermilab, MicroBooNE has recently published results testing explanations for the MiniBooNE anomaly, including three...
Hyper-Kamiokande will start collecting accelerator neutrino data in 2028 to search for leptonic CP violation. The largest systematic uncertainty, $\Delta (\sigma_{{\nu}_e}/\sigma_{\bar{\nu}_e})$, is related to the ratio between the electron neutrino and antineutrino cross section. A not proper modeling could generate an ambiguous asymmetry in the ratio between the $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_e$ and...
The International Muon Collider Collaboration (IMCC) is studying a multi-TeV muon collider. One of the most challenging aspects is the MW-class production Target, which must withstand nanosecond-scale and high-intensity proton bunches, while delivering optimal pion-muon yields from the start of the frontend. In addition to the high thermal shock and average power, resistance to fatigue and...
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton gadolinium loaded water Cherenkov detector installed on the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) line at Fermilab. ANNIE physics goals include measuring the neutron multiplicity in neutrino-nucleus interactions and the charged current cross-section of muon neutrino interactions with water. In addition, ANNIE serves as a...
The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab will conduct a world-leading search for Charged Lepton Flavour Violation (CLFV) in neutrino-less muon-to-electron conversion in the field of a nucleus. In doing so, it will provide a powerful probe into physics beyond the Standard Model, which can greatly enhance the rates of CLFV processes. To accomplish this measurement, which will constitute an...
T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, measuring the oscillation of neutrinos and antineutrinos produced at J-PARC facility which then travel 295 km across Japan to its far detector, Super Kamiokande. T2K has been taking data since 2009 and sets world-leading constraints on many neutrino oscillation parameters within the standard PMNS three-flavour mixing paradigm, including...
We compute the contribution of meson-exchange currents (MEC) to the one-particle
emission transverse response of nuclear matter, including short-range correlations (SRC)
within the independent pair approximation. Our results show a significant enhancement
of the transverse response in electron scattering, in contrast to independent-particle
models that neglect SRC [1]. SRC are incorporated...
T2K is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment located in Japan. Its aim is to undertake precise measurements of the atmospheric parameters |dm2_23|, sin2theta23 and to search for CP-violation within the leptonic sector, which would manifest as a discrepancy between neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations. Thanks to its focussing horns, the T2K experiment has the faculty to produce...
A dedicated search for the muon electric dipole moment using the frozen-spin technique [1] promises to extend our reach towards physics beyond the Standard Model incorporating additional sources of CP violation. The muEDM Collaboration is developing a compact frozen-spin trap [2] to enable a first demonstration of this technique, with a target sensitivity of $6\times10^{-23}\,e\mathrm{cm}$,...
We report on global extractions of the $\rm^{12}C$, $\rm^{40}Ca$ and $\rm^{56}Fe$ longitudinal (${\cal R}_L$) and transverse (${\cal R}_T$) nuclear electromagnetic response functions from an analysis of all available electron scattering and photoprodution data on these nuclei. The response functions are extracted for energy transfer $\nu$, spanning the nuclear excitation,...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation neutrino experiment in South China currently in its commissioning phase. Situated under 650 meters of rock overburden ($\sim$1800 meters water equivalent), JUNO’s central detector consists of a 20-kton liquid scintillator target housed in a 35.4-meter-diameter acrylic sphere. It achieves remarkable 75% photocathode...
Single-pion production provides an important contribution to the total neutrino-nucleus interaction cross section in neutrino oscillation experiments. This contribution improves the Ghent Hybrid model in the delta-resonance region. The philosophy of this work is to incorporate as much physics constraints as possible while keeping the amount of fitted parameters as low as possible. The model is...
The Belle and Belle II experiments have collected a $1.6~\mathrm{ab}^{-1}$ sample of $e^+e^-$ collision data at centre-of-mass energies near the $\Upsilon(nS)$ resonances. This sample contains approximately 1.5 billion $e^+e^-\to \tau^+\tau^{-}$ events, which we use to search for lepton-flavour violating decays. We present searches for $\tau\to\ell\gamma$, tau decay to three charged leptons,...
