Study of Neutrino Oscillations in the OPERA Experiment

The OPERA experiment has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the $\nu_{\mu}\to\nu_{\tau}$ channel, through the detection of the tau lepton produced in charged current interaction on an event by event basis. The detector is hybrid, being made of an emulsion/lead target and of electronic detectors. It exploited the CNGS muon neutrino beam from CERN to Gran Sasso, 730 km from the source. Runs with CNGS neutrinos were successfully carried out from 2008 to 2012. We report on the large data sample analysed so far and give our results on the search for $\nu_{\mu}\to\nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{\mu}\to\nu_{e}$ oscillations.Comment: Prensented at the Lake Louise Winter 2013 Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 17-23 February 201

NESSiE: The Experimental Sterile Neutrino Search in Short-Base-Line at CERN

Several different experimental results are indicating the existence of anomalies in the neutrino sector. Models beyond the standard model have been developed to explain these results and involve one or more additional neutrinos that do not weakly interact. A new experimental program is therefore needed to study this potential new physics with a possibly new Short-Base-Line neutrino beam at CERN. CERN is actually promoting the start up of a New Neutrino Facility in the North Area site, which may host two complementary detectors, one based on LAr technology and one corresponding to a muon spectrometer. The system is doubled in two different sites. With regards to the latter option, NESSiE, Neutrino Experiment with Spectrometers in Europe, had been proposed for the search of sterile neutrinos studying Charged Current (CC) muon neutrino and antineutrino ineractions. The detectors consists of two magnetic spectrometers to be located in two sites:"Near" and "Far" from the proton target of the CERN-SPS beam. Each spectrometer will be complemented by an ICARUS-like LAr target in order to allow also Neutral Current (NC) and electron neutrino CC interactions reconstruction.Comment: Prensented at the Lake Louise Winter 2013 Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 17-23 February 201

Search for \nu_\mu -> \nu_\tau oscillations in appearance mode in the OPERA experiment

The OPERA experiment in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) has been designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the muon neutrino to tau neutrino channel. The detector is hybrid, being made of an emulsion/lead target and of electronic detectors. It is placed in the CNGS neutrino beam 730 km away from the neutrino source. Runs with CNGS neutrinos were successfully carried out in 2008, 2009, and 2010. After a brief description of the beam and the experimental setup, we report on event analysis of a sample of events corresponding to 1.89\times 10^{19} p.o.t. in the CERN CNGS \nu_{\mu} beam that yielded the observation of a first candidate \nu_{\tau} CC interaction. The topology and kinematics of this candidate event are described in detail. The background sources are explained and the significance of the candidate is assessed.Comment: Contribution to Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vall\'ee D'Aoste (La Thuile, February 27-March 5 2011); 8 pages, 4 figure

Semantic Web based Container Monitoring System for the Transportation Industry

Abstract: Goods are transported around the world in containers. Monitoring containers is a complex task. In this presentation, we will present a Container Monitoring System based on Semantic Web technologies. This system is currently being developed by Ege University, Bimar Information Technology Services and Capsenta for ARKAS Holding, one of Turkey's leading logistics and transportation companies. Our presentation consists of 1) introducing the challenges of monitoring containers in the transportation industry, 2) how existing technologies and solutions do not satisfy the needs, 3) why Semantic Web technologies can address the needs, 4) how we are using Semantic Web technologies including architectural design decisions and finally 5) describe lessons learned

Demonstration of particle tracking with scintillating fibres read out by a SPAD array sensor and application as a neutrino active target

Scintillating fibre detectors combine sub-mm resolution particle tracking, precise measurements of the particle stopping power and sub-ns time resolution. Typically, fibres are read out with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). Hence, if fibres with a few hundred mm diameter are used, either they are grouped together and coupled with a single SiPM, losing spatial resolution, or a very large number of electronic channels is required. In this article we propose and provide a first demonstration of a novel configuration which allows each individual scintillating fibre to be read out regardless of the size of its diameter, by imaging them with Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) array sensors. Differently from SiPMs, SPAD array sensors provide single-photon detection with single-pixel spatial resolution. In addition, O(us) or faster coincidence of detected photons allows to obtain noise-free images. Such a concept can be particularly advantageous if adopted as a neutrino active target, where scintillating fibres alternated along orthogonal directions can provide isotropic, high-resolution tracking in a dense material and reconstruct the kinematics of low-momentum protons (down to 150 MeV/c), crucial for an accurate characterisation of the neutrino nucleus cross section. In this work the tracking capabilities of a bundle of scintillating fibres coupled to SwissSPAD2 is demonstrated. The impact of such detector configuration in GeV-neutrino experiments is studied with simulations and reported. Finally, future plans, including the development of a new SPAD array sensor optimised for neutrino detection, are discussed

DsTau: Study of tau neutrino production with 400 GeV protons from the CERN-SPS

In the DsTau experiment at the CERN SPS, an independent and direct way to measure tau neutrino production following high energy proton interactions was proposed. As the main source of tau neutrinos is a decay of Ds mesons, produced in proton-nucleus interactions, the project aims at measuring a differential cross section of this reaction. The experimental method is based on a use of high resolution emulsion detectors for effective registration of events with short lived particle decays. Here we present the motivation of the study, details of the experimental technique, and the first results of the analysis of the data collected during test runs, which prove feasibility of the full scale study of the process in future

First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC

We report the first direct observation of neutrino interactions at a particle collider experiment. Neutrino candidate events are identified in a 13.6 TeV center-of-mass energy $pp$ collision data set of 35.4 fb${}^{-1}$ using the active electronic components of the FASER detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The candidates are required to have a track propagating through the entire length of the FASER detector and be consistent with a muon neutrino charged-current interaction. We infer $153^{+12}_{-13}$ neutrino interactions with a significance of 16 standard deviations above the background-only hypothesis. These events are consistent with the characteristics expected from neutrino interactions in terms of secondary particle production and spatial distribution, and they imply the observation of both neutrinos and anti-neutrinos with an incident neutrino energy of significantly above 200 GeV.Comment: Submitted to PRL on March 24 202

First neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC

FASER$\nu$ at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to directly detect collider neutrinos for the first time and study their cross sections at TeV energies, where no such measurements currently exist. In 2018, a pilot detector employing emulsion films was installed in the far-forward region of ATLAS, 480 m from the interaction point, and collected 12.2 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. We describe the analysis of this pilot run data and the observation of the first neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC. This milestone paves the way for high-energy neutrino measurements at current and future colliders.Comment: Auxiliary materials are available at https://faser.web.cern.ch/fasernu-first-neutrino-interaction-candidate

The FASER Detector

FASER, the ForwArd Search ExpeRiment, is an experiment dedicated to searching for light, extremely weakly-interacting particles at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Such particles may be produced in the very forward direction of the LHC's high-energy collisions and then decay to visible particles inside the FASER detector, which is placed 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interaction point, aligned with the beam collisions axis. FASER also includes a sub-detector, FASER$\nu$, designed to detect neutrinos produced in the LHC collisions and to study their properties. In this paper, each component of the FASER detector is described in detail, as well as the installation of the experiment system and its commissioning using cosmic-rays collected in September 2021 and during the LHC pilot beam test carried out in October 2021. FASER will start taking LHC collision data in 2022, and will run throughout LHC Run 3