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SciBar fibres

Wavelength shifting fibres from the SciBar detector used in the SciBooNE experiment at Fermilab.

Credit: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab.

Prof Morgan Wascko

Rokos-Clarendon Professor of Neutrino Physics

Research theme

  • Instrumentation
  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • Accelerator Neutrinos
morgan.wascko@physics.ox.ac.uk
My webpage at Pembroke College
My webpage at STFC RAL PPD
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Supernova model discrimination with hyper-kamiokande

Astrophysical Journal IOP Publishing 916:1 (2021) 15

Authors:

K Abe, P Adrich, H Aihara, R Akutsu, I Alekseev, A Ali, F Ameli, I Anghel, Lhv Anthony, M Antonova, A Araya, Y Asaoka, Y Ashida, V Aushev, F Ballester, I Bandac, M Barbi, Gj Barker, G Barr, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, M Bellato, V Berardi, M Bergevin, L Bernard, E Bernardini, L Berns, S Bhadra, J Bian, A Blanchet, Fdm Blaszczyk, A Blondel, A Boiano, S Bolognesi, L Bonavera, N Booth, S Borjabad, T Boschi, D Bose, C Bozza, A Bravar, D Bravo-Berguno, C Bronner, L Brown, A Bubak, A Buchowicz, M Buizza Avanzini, Fs Cafagna, Nf Calabria, Jm Calvo-Mozota, S Cao

Abstract:

Core-collapse supernovae are among the most magnificent events in the observable universe. They produce many of the chemical elements necessary for life to exist and their remnants - neutron stars and black holes - are interesting astrophysical objects in their own right. However, despite millennia of observations and almost a century of astrophysical study, the explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae is not yet well understood. Hyper-Kamiokande is a next-generation neutrino detector that will be able to observe the neutrino flux from the next galactic core-collapse supernova in unprecedented detail. We focus on the first 500 ms of the neutrino burst, corresponding to the accretion phase, and use a newly-developed, high-precision supernova event generator to simulate Hyper-Kamiokande's response to five different supernova models. We show that Hyper-Kamiokande will be able to distinguish between these models with high accuracy for a supernova at a distance of up to 100 kpc. Once the next galactic supernova happens, this ability will be a powerful tool for guiding simulations toward a precise reproduction of the explosion mechanism observed in nature.
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Commissioning of a High Pressure Time Projection Chamber with Optical Readout

Instruments MDPI 5:2 (2021) 22

Authors:

Alexander Deisting, Abigail Victoria Waldron, Edward Atkin, Gary Barker, Anastasia Basharina-Freshville, Christopher Betancourt, Steven Boyd, Dominic Brailsford, Zachary Chen-Wishart, Linda Cremonesi, Adriana Dias, Patrick Dunne, Jennifer Haigh, Philip Hamacher-Baumann, Sebastian Jones, Asher Kaboth, Alexander Korzenev, William Ma, Philippe Mermod, Maria Mironova, Jocelyn Monroe, Ryan Nichol, Toby Nonnenmacher, Jaroslaw Nowak, William Parker, Harrison Ritchie-Yates, Stefan Roth, Ruben Saakyan, Nicola Serra, Yuri Shitov, Jochen Steinmann, Adam Tarrant, Melissa Uchida, Sammy Valder, Mark Ward, Morgan O Wascko
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First T2K measurement of transverse kinematic imbalance in the muon-neutrino charged-current single-π+ production channel containing at least one proton

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 103:11 (2021) 112009

Authors:

K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, M Antonova, S Aoki, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, A Blanchet, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, J Chakrani, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, CC Delogu, SR Dennis, C Densham, A Dergacheva, F Di Lodovico, S Dolan, D Douqa, TA Doyle, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, AJ Finch, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, M Gonin, EAG Goodman, A Gorin, M Grassi, M Guigue, DR Hadley, P Hamacher-Baumann, DA Harris, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, JJ Jiang, P Jonsson, CK Jung, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, H Kakuno, J Kameda, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, S King, J Kisiel, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, Y Kudenko, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, D Last, M Laveder, M Lawe, S-K Lin, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, C Mauger, A Maurel, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, GD Megias, L Mellet, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, D Munford, L Munteanu, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, H Nakamura, K Nakamura, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, VQ Nguyen, K Niewczas, Y Nishimura, K Nishizaki, E Noah, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O’Keeffe, L O’Sullivan, T Odagawa, T Ogawa, R Okada, K Okumura, T Okusawa, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, V Paolone, M Pari, WC Parker, J Parlone, S Parsa, J Pasternak, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, D Pershey, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, M Reh, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, CA Ruggles, A Rychter, LSM Lakshmi, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, A Shaikhiev, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, K Skwarczynski, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, R Spina, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, N Teshima, N Thamm, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, M Vagins, S Valder, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, Y Wang, L Wan, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, J Xia, Y-H Xu, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, Y Yoshimoto, M Yu, R Zaki, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, M Zito, S Zsoldos
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Improved constraints on neutrino mixing from the T2K experiment with 3.13×1021 protons on target

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 103:11 (2021) 112008

Authors:

K Abe, N Akhlaq, R Akutsu, A Ali, C Alt, C Andreopoulos, M Antonova, S Aoki, T Arihara, Y Asada, Y Ashida, ET Atkin, Y Awataguchi, GJ Barker, G Barr, D Barrow, M Batkiewicz-Kwasniak, A Beloshapkin, F Bench, V Berardi, L Berns, S Bhadra, A Blanchet, A Blondel, S Bolognesi, T Bonus, B Bourguille, SB Boyd, A Bravar, D Bravo Berguño, C Bronner, S Bron, A Bubak, M Buizza Avanzini, S Cao, SL Cartwright, MG Catanesi, A Cervera, J Chakrani, D Cherdack, G Christodoulou, M Cicerchia, J Coleman, G Collazuol, L Cook, D Coplowe, A Cudd, G De Rosa, T Dealtry, CC Delogu, SR Dennis, C Densham, A Dergacheva, F Di Lodovico, S Dolan, D Douqa, TA Doyle, J Dumarchez, P Dunne, A Eguchi, L Eklund, S Emery-Schrenk, A Ereditato, AJ Finch, G Fiorillo, C Francois, M Friend, Y Fujii, R Fukuda, Y Fukuda, K Fusshoeller, C Giganti, M Gonin, EAG Goodman, A Gorin, M Grassi, M Guigue, DR Hadley, P Hamacher-Baumann, DA Harris, M Hartz, T Hasegawa, S Hassani, NC Hastings, Y Hayato, A Hiramoto, M Hogan, J Holeczek, NT Hong Van, T Honjo, F Iacob, AK Ichikawa, M Ikeda, T Ishida, M Ishitsuka, K Iwamoto, A Izmaylov, N Izumi, M Jakkapu, B Jamieson, SJ Jenkins, C Jesús-Valls, JJ Jiang, P Jonsson, CK Jung, PB Jurj, M Kabirnezhad, H Kakuno, J Kameda, SP Kasetti, Y Kataoka, Y Katayama, T Katori, E Kearns, M Khabibullin, A Khotjantsev, T Kikawa, H Kikutani, S King, J Kisiel, T Kobata, T Kobayashi, L Koch, A Konaka, LL Kormos, Y Koshio, A Kostin, K Kowalik, Y Kudenko, S Kuribayashi, R Kurjata, T Kutter, M Kuze, L Labarga, J Lagoda, M Lamoureux, D Last, M Laveder, M Lawe, S-K Lin, RP Litchfield, SL Liu, A Longhin, L Ludovici, X Lu, T Lux, LN Machado, L Magaletti, K Mahn, M Malek, S Manly, L Maret, AD Marino, L Marti-Magro, T Maruyama, T Matsubara, K Matsushita, C Mauger, A Maurel, K Mavrokoridis, E Mazzucato, N McCauley, J McElwee, KS McFarland, C McGrew, A Mefodiev, GD Megias, L Mellet, M Mezzetto, A Minamino, O Mineev, S Mine, M Miura, L Molina Bueno, S Moriyama, Th A Mueller, D Munford, L Munteanu, Y Nagai, T Nakadaira, M Nakahata, Y Nakajima, A Nakamura, H Nakamura, K Nakamura, Y Nakano, S Nakayama, T Nakaya, K Nakayoshi, CER Naseby, TV Ngoc, VQ Nguyen, K Niewczas, Y Nishimura, K Nishizaki, E Noah, TS Nonnenmacher, F Nova, J Nowak, JC Nugent, HM O’Keeffe, L O’Sullivan, T Odagawa, T Ogawa, R Okada, K Okumura, T Okusawa, RA Owen, Y Oyama, V Palladino, V Paolone, M Pari, WC Parker, J Parlone, S Parsa, J Pasternak, M Pavin, D Payne, GC Penn, D Pershey, L Pickering, C Pidcott, G Pintaudi, C Pistillo, B Popov, K Porwit, M Posiadala-Zezula, A Pritchard, B Quilain, T Radermacher, E Radicioni, B Radics, PN Ratoff, M Reh, C Riccio, E Rondio, S Roth, A Rubbia, AC Ruggeri, CA Ruggles, A Rychter, LSM Lakshmi, K Sakashita, F Sánchez, G Santucci, CM Schloesser, K Scholberg, M Scott, Y Seiya, T Sekiguchi, H Sekiya, D Sgalaberna, A Shaikhiev, A Shaykina, M Shiozawa, W Shorrock, A Shvartsman, K Skwarczynski, M Smy, JT Sobczyk, H Sobel, FJP Soler, Y Sonoda, R Spina, S Suvorov, A Suzuki, SY Suzuki, Y Suzuki, AA Sztuc, M Tada, M Tajima, A Takeda, Y Takeuchi, HK Tanaka, Y Tanihara, M Tani, N Teshima, N Thamm, LF Thompson, W Toki, C Touramanis, T Towstego, KM Tsui, T Tsukamoto, M Tzanov, Y Uchida, M Vagins, S Valder, D Vargas, G Vasseur, C Vilela, WGS Vinning, T Vladisavljevic, T Wachala, J Walker, JG Walsh, Y Wang, L Wan, D Wark, MO Wascko, A Weber, R Wendell, MJ Wilking, C Wilkinson, JR Wilson, K Wood, C Wret, J Xia, Y-H Xu, K Yamamoto, C Yanagisawa, G Yang, T Yano, K Yasutome, N Yershov, M Yokoyama, T Yoshida, Y Yoshimoto, M Yu, R Zaki, A Zalewska, J Zalipska, K Zaremba, G Zarnecki, M Ziembicki, M Zito, S Zsoldos
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Supernova neutrino burst detection with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

The European Physical Journal C SpringerOpen 81:5 (2021) 423

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B Abi, R Acciarri, MA Acero, G Adamov, D Adams, M Adinolfi, Z Ahmad, J Ahmed, T Alion, S Alonso Monsalve, C Alt, J Anderson, C Andreopoulos, MP Andrews, F Andrianala, S Andringa, A Ankowski, M Antonova, S Antusch, A Aranda-Fernandez, A Ariga, LO Arnold, MA Arroyave, J Asaadi, A Aurisano, V Aushev, D Autiero, F Azfar, H Back, JJ Back, C Backhouse, P Baesso, L Bagby, R Bajou, S Balasubramanian, P Baldi, B Bambah, F Barao, G Barenboim, GJ Barker, W Barkhouse, C Barnes, G Barr, J Barranco Monarca, N Barros, JL Barrow, A Bashyal, V Basque, F Bay, JL Bazo Alba

Abstract:

We investigate the feasibility of using deep learning techniques, in the form of a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN), for the extraction of signals from the raw waveforms produced by the individual channels of liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) detectors. A minimal generic LArTPC detector model is developed to generate realistic noise and signal waveforms used to train and test the 1D-CNN, and evaluate its performance on low-level signals. We demonstrate that our approach overcomes the inherent shortcomings of traditional cut-based methods by extending sensitivity to signals with ADC values below their imposed thresholds. This approach exhibits great promise in enhancing the capabilities of future generation neutrino experiments like DUNE to carry out their low-energy neutrino physics programs
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