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J. W. Shin

Bio: J. W. Shin is an academic researcher from Seoul National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Center (category theory). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1847 citations.

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TL;DR: The RENO experiment has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos, consistent with neutrino oscillations, with a significance of 4.9 standard deviations.
Abstract: The RENO experiment has observed the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos, consistent with neutrino oscillations, with a significance of 4.9 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from six $2.8\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{GW}}_{\mathrm{th}}$ reactors at the Yonggwang Nuclear Power Plant in Korea, are detected by two identical detectors located at 294 and 1383 m, respectively, from the reactor array center. In the 229 d data-taking period between 11 August 2011 and 26 March 2012, the far (near) detector observed 17102 (154088) electron antineutrino candidate events with a background fraction of 5.5% (2.7%). The ratio of observed to expected numbers of antineutrinos in the far detector is $0.920\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.009(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.014(\mathrm{syst})$. From this deficit, we determine ${sin }^{2}2{\ensuremath{\theta}}_{13}=0.113\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.013(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.019(\mathrm{syst})$ based on a rate-only analysis.

1,979 citations


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TL;DR: This paper focuses on the PMNS mixing matrix and the latest global fits following the Daya Bay and RENO experiments which measure the reactor angle and gives a mini-review of finite group theory.
Abstract: This is a review paper about neutrino mass and mixing and flavour model building strategies based on discrete family symmetry. After a pedagogical introduction and overview of the whole of neutrino physics, we focus on the PMNS mixing matrix and the latest global fits following the Daya Bay and RENO experiments which measure the reactor angle. We then describe the simple bimaximal, tri-bimaximal and golden ratio patterns of lepton mixing and the deviations required for a non-zero reactor angle, with solar or atmospheric mixing sum rules resulting from charged lepton corrections or residual trimaximal mixing. The different types of see-saw mechanism are then reviewed as well as the sequential dominance mechanism. We then give a mini-review of finite group theory, which may be used as a discrete family symmetry broken by flavons either completely, or with different subgroups preserved in the neutrino and charged lepton sectors. These two approaches are then reviewed in detail in separate chapters including mechanisms for flavon vacuum alignment and different model building strategies that have been proposed to generate the reactor angle. We then briefly review grand unified theories (GUTs) and how they may be combined with discrete family symmetry to describe all quark and lepton masses and mixing. Finally, we discuss three model examples which combine an SU(5) GUT with the discrete family symmetries A₄, S₄ and Δ(96).

849 citations

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Sergey Alekhin, Wolfgang Altmannshofer1, Takehiko Asaka2, Brian Batell3, Fedor Bezrukov4, Kyrylo Bondarenko5, Alexey Boyarsky5, Ki-Young Choi6, Cristóbal Corral7, Nathaniel Craig8, David Curtin9, Sacha Davidson10, Sacha Davidson11, André de Gouvêa12, Stefano Dell'Oro, Patrick deNiverville13, P. S. Bhupal Dev14, Herbi K. Dreiner15, Marco Drewes16, Shintaro Eijima17, Rouven Essig18, Anthony Fradette13, Björn Garbrecht16, Belen Gavela19, Gian F. Giudice3, Mark D. Goodsell20, Mark D. Goodsell21, Dmitry Gorbunov22, Stefania Gori1, Christophe Grojean23, Alberto Guffanti24, Thomas Hambye25, Steen Honoré Hansen24, Juan Carlos Helo7, Juan Carlos Helo26, Pilar Hernández27, Alejandro Ibarra16, Artem Ivashko28, Artem Ivashko5, Eder Izaguirre1, Joerg Jaeckel29, Yu Seon Jeong30, Felix Kahlhoefer, Yonatan Kahn31, Andrey Katz32, Andrey Katz33, Andrey Katz3, Choong Sun Kim30, Sergey Kovalenko7, Gordan Krnjaic1, Valery E. Lyubovitskij34, Valery E. Lyubovitskij35, Valery E. Lyubovitskij36, Simone Marcocci, Matthew McCullough3, David McKeen37, Guenakh Mitselmakher38, Sven Moch39, Rabindra N. Mohapatra9, David E. Morrissey40, Maksym Ovchynnikov28, Emmanuel A. Paschos, Apostolos Pilaftsis14, Maxim Pospelov1, Maxim Pospelov13, Mary Hall Reno41, Andreas Ringwald, Adam Ritz13, Leszek Roszkowski, Valery Rubakov, Oleg Ruchayskiy17, Oleg Ruchayskiy24, Ingo Schienbein42, Daniel Schmeier15, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, Pedro Schwaller3, Goran Senjanovic43, Osamu Seto44, Mikhail Shaposhnikov17, Lesya Shchutska38, J. Shelton45, Robert Shrock18, Brian Shuve1, Michael Spannowsky46, Andrew Spray47, Florian Staub3, Daniel Stolarski3, Matt Strassler33, Vladimir Tello, Francesco Tramontano48, Anurag Tripathi, Sean Tulin49, Francesco Vissani, Martin Wolfgang Winkler15, Kathryn M. Zurek50, Kathryn M. Zurek51 
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics1, Niigata University2, CERN3, University of Connecticut4, Leiden University5, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute6, Federico Santa María Technical University7, University of California, Santa Barbara8, University of Maryland, College Park9, University of Lyon10, Claude Bernard University Lyon 111, Northwestern University12, University of Victoria13, University of Manchester14, University of Bonn15, Technische Universität München16, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne17, Stony Brook University18, Autonomous University of Madrid19, University of Paris20, Centre national de la recherche scientifique21, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology22, Autonomous University of Barcelona23, University of Copenhagen24, Université libre de Bruxelles25, University of La Serena26, University of Valencia27, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv28, Heidelberg University29, Yonsei University30, Princeton University31, University of Geneva32, Harvard University33, Tomsk State University34, Tomsk Polytechnic University35, University of Tübingen36, University of Washington37, University of Florida38, University of Hamburg39, TRIUMF40, University of Iowa41, University of Grenoble42, International Centre for Theoretical Physics43, Hokkai Gakuen University44, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign45, Durham University46, University of Melbourne47, University of Naples Federico II48, York University49, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory50, University of California, Berkeley51
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the standard model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation.
Abstract: This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (search for hidden particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale, inaccessible to the LHC experiments, and to study tau neutrino physics. The same proton beam setup can be used later to look for decays of tau-leptons with lepton flavour number non-conservation, $\tau \to 3\mu $ and to search for weakly-interacting sub-GeV dark matter candidates. We discuss the evidence for physics beyond the standard model and describe interactions between new particles and four different portals—scalars, vectors, fermions or axion-like particles. We discuss motivations for different models, manifesting themselves via these interactions, and how they can be probed with the SHiP experiment and present several case studies. The prospects to search for relatively light SUSY and composite particles at SHiP are also discussed. We demonstrate that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the standard model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation.

842 citations

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Fengpeng An1, Guangpeng An, Qi An2, Vito Antonelli3  +226 moreInstitutions (55)
TL;DR: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) as mentioned in this paper is a 20kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator detector with the determination of neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) as a primary physics goal.
Abstract: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose underground liquid scintillator detector, was proposed with the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy (MH) as a primary physics goal. The excellent energy resolution and the large fiducial volume anticipated for the JUNO detector offer exciting opportunities for addressing many important topics in neutrino and astro-particle physics. In this document, we present the physics motivations and the anticipated performance of the JUNO detector for various proposed measurements. Following an introduction summarizing the current status and open issues in neutrino physics, we discuss how the detection of antineutrinos generated by a cluster of nuclear power plants allows the determination of the neutrino MH at a 3–4σ significance with six years of running of JUNO. The measurement of antineutrino spectrum with excellent energy resolution will also lead to the precise determination of the neutrino oscillation parameters ${\mathrm{sin}}^{2}{\theta }_{12}$, ${\rm{\Delta }}{m}_{21}^{2}$, and $| {\rm{\Delta }}{m}_{{ee}}^{2}| $ to an accuracy of better than 1%, which will play a crucial role in the future unitarity test of the MNSP matrix. The JUNO detector is capable of observing not only antineutrinos from the power plants, but also neutrinos/antineutrinos from terrestrial and extra-terrestrial sources, including supernova burst neutrinos, diffuse supernova neutrino background, geoneutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos, and solar neutrinos. As a result of JUNO's large size, excellent energy resolution, and vertex reconstruction capability, interesting new data on these topics can be collected. For example, a neutrino burst from a typical core-collapse supernova at a distance of 10 kpc would lead to ∼5000 inverse-beta-decay events and ∼2000 all-flavor neutrino–proton ES events in JUNO, which are of crucial importance for understanding the mechanism of supernova explosion and for exploring novel phenomena such as collective neutrino oscillations. Detection of neutrinos from all past core-collapse supernova explosions in the visible universe with JUNO would further provide valuable information on the cosmic star-formation rate and the average core-collapse neutrino energy spectrum. Antineutrinos originating from the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium in the Earth can be detected in JUNO with a rate of ∼400 events per year, significantly improving the statistics of existing geoneutrino event samples. Atmospheric neutrino events collected in JUNO can provide independent inputs for determining the MH and the octant of the ${\theta }_{23}$ mixing angle. Detection of the (7)Be and (8)B solar neutrino events at JUNO would shed new light on the solar metallicity problem and examine the transition region between the vacuum and matter dominated neutrino oscillations. Regarding light sterile neutrino topics, sterile neutrinos with ${10}^{-5}\,{{\rm{eV}}}^{2}\lt {\rm{\Delta }}{m}_{41}^{2}\lt {10}^{-2}\,{{\rm{eV}}}^{2}$ and a sufficiently large mixing angle ${\theta }_{14}$ could be identified through a precise measurement of the reactor antineutrino energy spectrum. Meanwhile, JUNO can also provide us excellent opportunities to test the eV-scale sterile neutrino hypothesis, using either the radioactive neutrino sources or a cyclotron-produced neutrino beam. The JUNO detector is also sensitive to several other beyondthe-standard-model physics. Examples include the search for proton decay via the $p\to {K}^{+}+\bar{ u }$ decay channel, search for neutrinos resulting from dark-matter annihilation in the Sun, search for violation of Lorentz invariance via the sidereal modulation of the reactor neutrino event rate, and search for the effects of non-standard interactions. The proposed construction of the JUNO detector will provide a unique facility to address many outstanding crucial questions in particle and astrophysics in a timely and cost-effective fashion. It holds the great potential for further advancing our quest to understanding the fundamental properties of neutrinos, one of the building blocks of our Universe.

807 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a global analysis of neutrino oscillation data was performed, including high-precision measurements of the mixing angle at reactor experiments, which confirmed previous indications in favor of the neutrinos' mixing angle.
Abstract: We perform a global analysis of neutrino oscillation data, including high-precision measurements of the neutrino mixing angle ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{13}$ at reactor experiments, which have confirmed previous indications in favor of ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{13}g0$. Recent data presented at the Neutrino 2012 conference are also included. We focus on the correlations between ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{13}$ and the mixing angle ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{23}$, as well as between ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{13}$ and the neutrino $CP$-violation phase $\ensuremath{\delta}$. We find interesting indications for ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{23}l\ensuremath{\pi}/4$ and possible hints for $\ensuremath{\delta}\ensuremath{\sim}\ensuremath{\pi}$, with no significant difference between normal and inverted mass hierarchy.

751 citations

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S. Adrián-Martínez1, M. Ageron2, Felix Aharonian3, Sebastiano Aiello  +243 moreInstitutions (24)
TL;DR: In this article, the main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are (i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and (ii) the determination of the mass hierarchy of neutrinos.
Abstract: The main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are (i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and (ii) the determination of the mass hierarchy of neutrinos. These objectives are strongly motivated by two recent important discoveries, namely: (1) the high-energy astrophysical neutrino signal reported by IceCube and (2) the sizable contribution of electron neutrinos to the third neutrino mass eigenstate as reported by Daya Bay, Reno and others. To meet these objectives, the KM3NeT Collaboration plans to build a new Research Infrastructure consisting of a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. A phased and distributed implementation is pursued which maximises the access to regional funds, the availability of human resources and the synergistic opportunities for the Earth and sea sciences community. Three suitable deep-sea sites are selected, namely off-shore Toulon (France), Capo Passero (Sicily, Italy) and Pylos (Peloponnese, Greece). The infrastructure will consist of three so-called building blocks. A building block comprises 115 strings, each string comprises 18 optical modules and each optical module comprises 31 photo-multiplier tubes. Each building block thus constitutes a three-dimensional array of photo sensors that can be used to detect the Cherenkov light produced by relativistic particles emerging from neutrino interactions. Two building blocks will be sparsely configured to fully explore the IceCube signal with similar instrumented volume, different methodology, improved resolution and complementary field of view, including the galactic plane. One building block will be densely configured to precisely measure atmospheric neutrino oscillations.

729 citations