Neutrino Resources
Introductions to Neutrinos, Oscillations, and Sterile Neutrinos
Neutrino Oscillations:
- 2015 Nobel Prize for Neutrino Oscillations, Popular Information.
- 2015 Nobel Prize for Neutrino Oscillations, Scientific Background.
- Discovery of neutrinos, Reines-Cowan Experiments.
- Neutrino Oscillations for Dummies, link, Chris Waltham.
- Introduction to neutrino phenomenology from one of the best: Neutrino Physics, Boris Kayser.
- Another good introduction, The formalism of neutrino oscillations: an introduction, G. Fantini, A. Gallo Rosso, F. Vissani, V. Zema.
- One more on three neutrino oscillations, CP Violation and Neutrino Oscillations, H. Nunokawa, S. Parke, J. W. F. Valle.
- Particle Data Group summary of Neutrino Mass, Mixing, and Oscillations and Neutrinos in Cosmology.
Sterile Neutrinos:
- Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics: Status of Light Sterile Neutrino Searches, S. Böser, et al. 2019.
- Reviews of Modern Physics: Where Are We With Light Sterile Neutrinos?, A. Diaz, C.A. Arguelles, G.H. Collin, J.M. Conrad, M.H. Shaevitz.
- Tutorial on experimental studies of sterile neutrino oscillations: Sterile Neutrinos: An Introduction to Experiments, J.M. Conrad and M.H. Shaevitz.
- Recent sterile neutrino global fits (2017): Updated Global 3+1 Analysis of Short-BaseLine Neutrino Oscillations, S. Gariazzo, C. Giunti, M. Laveder, Y.F. Li.
- Recent sterile neutrino global fits (2018): Updated Global Analysis of Neutrino Oscillations in the Presence of eV-Scale Sterile Neutrinos, M. Dentler et al.
Neutrino Scattering:
- Review of neutrino-nucleus scattering (2017): NuSTEC White Paper: Status and Challenges of Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering, NuSTEC Collaboration.
- Review of neutrino-nucleus scattering (2012): From eV to EeV: Neutrino cross sections across energy scales, J.A. Formaggio and G.P. Zeller.
DUNE and SBN:
- DUNE IDR: The DUNE Far Detector Interim Design Report Volume 1: Physics, Technology and Strategies, DUNE Collaboration. 2018.
- DUNE physics potential: Long-baseline Neutrino Oscillation Physics Potential of the DUNE Experiment. 2020.
- SBN Proposal: A Proposal for a Three Detector Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program in the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Beam. 2015.
- SBN Annual Review article: The Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab, P. Machado, O. Palamara, D. Schmitz. 2019.
Technical Information on LAr TPCs
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- Masters thesis from Bern with good general intro to LArTPCs: Studies with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber, Michael Schenk. 2019. (Chapter 1 pdf)
- Carlo Rubbia’s initial description of a LAr TPC: The Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber: A New Concept for Neutrino Detectors, C. Rubbia. 1977.
- Annual Review article: Status and New Ideas Regarding Liquid Argon Detectors, A. Marchionni. 2013.
- The ICARUS NIM: Design, Construction and Tests of the ICARUS T600 Detector, ICARUS Collaboration. 2004.
General Particle Physics and Techniques
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- PDG Passage of Particles Through Matter (the fundamentals needed to understand how particle detectors work)
- PDF Particle Detectors at Accelerators (now includes the LArTPC)
- Summary common particle identification techniques and what drives resolutions: arXiv:1101.3276.