Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering
Light sterile neutrinos have been introduced as an explanation for a number of oscillation signals at Δm[superscript 2]∼1 eV[superscript 2]. Neutrino oscillations at relatively short baselines provide a probe of these possible new states. This paper describes an accelerator-based experiment using n...
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| author | Anderson, Adam Jonathan Conrad, Janet Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali Ignarra, Christina Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Scholberg, K. Shaevitz, M. H. Spitz, Joshua B. |
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| description | Light sterile neutrinos have been introduced as an explanation for a number of oscillation signals at Δm[superscript 2]∼1 eV[superscript 2]. Neutrino oscillations at relatively short baselines provide a probe of these possible new states. This paper describes an accelerator-based experiment using neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering to strictly search for active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations. This experiment could, thus, definitively establish the existence of sterile neutrinos and provide constraints on their mixing parameters. A cyclotron-based proton beam can be directed to multiple targets, producing a low-energy pion and muon decay-at-rest neutrino source with variable distance to a single detector. Two types of detectors are considered: a germanium-based detector inspired by the SuperCDMS design and a liquid argon detector inspired by the proposed CLEAR experiment. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/721282022-10-02T00:14:34Z Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering Anderson, Adam Jonathan Conrad, Janet Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali Ignarra, Christina Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Scholberg, K. Shaevitz, M. H. Spitz, Joshua B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Conrad, Janet Anderson, Adam Jonathan Conrad, Janet Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali Ignarra, Christina Spitz, Joshua B. Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Light sterile neutrinos have been introduced as an explanation for a number of oscillation signals at Δm[superscript 2]∼1 eV[superscript 2]. Neutrino oscillations at relatively short baselines provide a probe of these possible new states. This paper describes an accelerator-based experiment using neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering to strictly search for active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations. This experiment could, thus, definitively establish the existence of sterile neutrinos and provide constraints on their mixing parameters. A cyclotron-based proton beam can be directed to multiple targets, producing a low-energy pion and muon decay-at-rest neutrino source with variable distance to a single detector. Two types of detectors are considered: a germanium-based detector inspired by the SuperCDMS design and a liquid argon detector inspired by the proposed CLEAR experiment. National Science Foundation (U.S.). (Grant number 0847342) National Science Foundation (U.S.). (Grant number 084784) National Science Foundation (U.S.). (Grant number 10-67934) 2012-08-14T21:12:42Z 2012-08-14T21:12:42Z 2012-07 2012-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1550-7998 1089-4918 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72128 Anderson, A. et al. “Measuring Active-to-sterile Neutrino Oscillations with Neutral Current Coherent Neutrino-nucleus Scattering.” Physical Review D 86.1 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4435-4623 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9285-5556 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.013004 Physical Review D Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Anderson, Adam Jonathan Conrad, Janet Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali Ignarra, Christina Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios Scholberg, K. Shaevitz, M. H. Spitz, Joshua B. Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering |
| title | Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering |
| title_full | Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering |
| title_fullStr | Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering |
| title_short | Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering |
| title_sort | measuring active to sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino nucleus scattering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72128 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6393-0438 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4435-4623 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9285-5556 |
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