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Precision measurement of neutrino oscillations parameters
Dohnal, Tadeáš ; Leitner, Rupert (advisor)
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, located in Southeast China, was de- signed to measure short baseline oscillation of electron antineutrinos originating from six 2.9 GWth nuclear reactors. In 2012, it discovered the nonzero value of the θ13 mixing angle and currently provides the world's most precise measurement of this neutrino os- cillation parameter. The goal of this thesis is to check the performance of the detector nonuniformity correction used by the Daya Bay experiment and then design a new im- proved version. For that purpose, the Daya Bay experiment is introduced including the procedure of the event reconstruction. Several types of signals are then studied in detail and later they are used to scrutinize the performance of the nonuniformity correction. Several issues are identified, most significantly an absence of radial dependence in the azimuthal part of the correction and inability to deal with dead photomultipliers. A new improved version of the correction that addresses these issues is then designed with the main goal to improve the precision of Daya Bay neutrino oscillation analyses, especially ongoing one which uses neutron capture on hydrogen. The impact of the new improved correction on said analyses is also assessed. 1
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Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in the Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment
Štěpánek, Václav ; Roskovec, Bedřich (advisor) ; Dohnal, Tadeáš (referee)
This thesis focuses on the neutrino physics. The main theme of the thesis was the next generation water Cherenkov experiment Hyper-Kamiokande, which will play key role in the $\delta_{CP}$ measurement through the accelerator neutrinos. However, the atmospheric neutrinos can significantly boost its sensitivity. In this thesis, we have develop a simplified model for atmospheric neutrino flux prediction and estimated the number of events the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment will detect. We have compared this result with the measurement of ts predecessor Super-Kamiokande.
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Precision measurement of neutrino oscillations parameters
Dohnal, Tadeáš ; Leitner, Rupert (advisor) ; Stríženec, Pavol (referee) ; Zálešák, Jaroslav (referee)
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, located in Southeast China, was de- signed to measure short baseline oscillation of electron antineutrinos originating from six 2.9 GWth nuclear reactors. In 2012, it discovered the nonzero value of the θ13 mixing angle and currently provides the world's most precise measurement of this neutrino os- cillation parameter. The goal of this thesis is to check the performance of the detector nonuniformity correction used by the Daya Bay experiment and then design a new im- proved version. For that purpose, the Daya Bay experiment is introduced including the procedure of the event reconstruction. Several types of signals are then studied in detail and later they are used to scrutinize the performance of the nonuniformity correction. Several issues are identified, most significantly an absence of radial dependence in the azimuthal part of the correction and inability to deal with dead photomultipliers. A new improved version of the correction that addresses these issues is then designed with the main goal to improve the precision of Daya Bay neutrino oscillation analyses, especially ongoing one which uses neutron capture on hydrogen. The impact of the new improved correction on said analyses is also assessed. 1
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Methods of determination of neutrino mass hierarchy
Dohnal, Tadeáš ; Leitner, Rupert (advisor) ; Soustružník, Karel (referee)
In this thesis, the question of neutrino mass hierarchy is investigated. For this purpose, possibilities of neutrino mass origin are mentioned and phenomenology of neutrino oscillations within three active neutrino framework is introduced. Using that, it is described what neutrino mass hierarchy is and why it would be good to know it. After that, an overview of approaches to this problem is provided, including outline of the JUNO experiment. The approach based on comparison of mass splitting measured in experiments with reactor antineutrinos and accelerator neutrinos is investigated in great detail. The final part of this thesis is measurement of resistive plate chamber properties, as this type of detector was considered to be used in the JUNO experiment (but eventually other type will be used instead).
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Možnosti zkoumání oscilací elektronových (anti) neutrin z rozpadů mionů.
Dohnal, Tadeáš ; Leitner, Rupert (advisor) ; Pěč, Viktor (referee)
In this thesis, the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations is investigated. General phenomenology for the three active neutrino framework is provided, along with transition probabilities in vacuum. The effect of eventual CP violation on neutrino oscillations and difficulties of its measurement are introduced. Several solutions are discussed, especially the concept of the neutrino factory (i.e. using neutrinos from muon decays) as it is projected by the nuSTORM collaboration. Energy spectra of neutrinos from unpolarized muon decays, both at rest and in flight are calculated, along with the angular distribution and other specifications.
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