Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering
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Author(s)
Anderson, Adam Jonathan
Conrad, Janet
Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali
Ignarra, Christina
Karagiorgi, Georgia Stelios
Scholberg, K.
Shaevitz, M. H.
Spitz, Joshua B.
Date Issued
July 2012
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
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
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Abstract
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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.013004
