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Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering

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Anderson, AJ; Conrad, JM; Figueroa-Feliciano, E; Ignarra, C; Karagiorgi, G; Scholberg, K; Shaevitz, MH; Spitz, J
Published in: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
July 2, 2012

Light sterile neutrinos have been introduced as an explanation for a number of oscillation signals at Δm2∼1eV2. 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. © 2012 American Physical Society.

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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

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1550-2368

ISSN

1550-7998

Publication Date

July 2, 2012

Volume

86

Issue

1

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
 

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Anderson, A. J., Conrad, J. M., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Ignarra, C., Karagiorgi, G., Scholberg, K., … Spitz, J. (2012). Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 86(1). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.013004
Anderson, A. J., J. M. Conrad, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, C. Ignarra, G. Karagiorgi, K. Scholberg, M. H. Shaevitz, and J. Spitz. “Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 86, no. 1 (July 2, 2012). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.013004.
Anderson AJ, Conrad JM, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Ignarra C, Karagiorgi G, Scholberg K, et al. Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2012 Jul 2;86(1).
Anderson, A. J., et al. “Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 86, no. 1, July 2012. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.013004.
Anderson AJ, Conrad JM, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Ignarra C, Karagiorgi G, Scholberg K, Shaevitz MH, Spitz J. Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2012 Jul 2;86(1).

Published In

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI

EISSN

1550-2368

ISSN

1550-7998

Publication Date

July 2, 2012

Volume

86

Issue

1

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences