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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility
D. AdeyS.k. AgarwallaC.m. AnkenbrandtR. AsfandiyarovJ.j. BackG. BarkerE. BaussanR. BayesS. BhadraV. BlackmoreA. BlondelS.a. BogaczC. BoothS.b. BoydS.g. BramsiepeA. BravarS.j. BriceA.d. BrossF. CadouxH. CeaseA. CerveraJ. CobbD. CollingP. ColomaL. ConeyA. DobbsJ. DobsonA. DoniniP. DornanM. DracosF. DufourRob EdgecockM. GeelhoedM.a. UchidaT. GhoshJ.j. Gomez-cadenasA. De GouveaA. HaeslerG. HansonP.f. HarrisonM. HartzP. HernandezJ.a. Hernando MorataP. HodgsonP. HuberA. IzmaylovY. KaradzhovT. KobilarcikJ. KoppL. KormosA. KorzenevY. KunoA. KurupP. KyberdJ.b. LagrangeA. LaingA. LiuJ.m. LinkK. LongK. MahnC. MarianiC. MartinJ. MartinN. MccauleyK.t. McdonaldO. MenaS.r. MishraN. MokhovJ. MorfinY. MoriW. MurrayD. NeufferR. NicholE. NoahM.a. PalmerS. ParkeS. PascoliJ. PasternakR. PlunkettM. PopovicP. RatoffM. RavonelM. RaynerS. RicciardiC. RogersP. RubinovE. SantosA. SatoT. SenE. ScantamburloJ.k. SedgbeerD.r. SmithP.j. SmithJ.t. SobczykL. SobyF.j.p. SolerM. SorelP. SnopokP. StamoulisL. StancoS. StriganovH.a. TanakaI.j. TaylorC. TouramanisC.d. TunnellY. UchidaN. VassilopoulosM.o. WasckoA. WeberM.j. WilkingE. WildnerW. Winter. Nustorm Collaborationsubject
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsSolar neutrinoAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaFOS: Physical sciencesAstronomy & AstrophysicsComputer Science::Digital LibrariesPartícules (Física nuclear)High Energy Physics - ExperimentMiniBooNENuclear physicsHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)0201 Astronomical and Space SciencesTOOLKITNeutrino oscillationDETECTOR0206 Quantum PhysicsPhysicsGALLEXScience & Technologyhep-exPhysicsPHYSICS PARTICLES & FIELDSHigh Energy Physics::Phenomenologyhep-phSolar neutrino problemNuclear & Particles PhysicsCosmic neutrino backgroundHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyNeutrino detectorPhysical Sciences0202 Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle and Plasma PhysicsComputer Science::Mathematical SoftwareMeasurements of neutrino speedPhysics::Accelerator PhysicsHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoParticle Physics - Experimentdescription
A facility that can deliver beams of electron and muon neutrinos from the decay of a stored muon beam has the potential to unambiguously resolve the issue of the evidence for light sterile neutrinos that arises in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and from estimates of the effective number of neutrino flavors from fits to cosmological data. In this paper, we show that the nuSTORM facility, with stored muons of 3.8 GeV/c $\pm$ 10%, will be able to carry out a conclusive muon neutrino appearance search for sterile neutrinos and test the LSND and MiniBooNE experimental signals with 10$\sigma$ sensitivity, even assuming conservative estimates for the systematic uncertainties. This experiment would add greatly to our knowledge of the contribution of light sterile neutrinos to the number of effective neutrino flavors from the abundance of primordial helium production and from constraints on neutrino energy density from the cosmic microwave background. The appearance search is complemented by a simultaneous muon neutrino disappearance analysis that will facilitate tests of various sterile neutrino models.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2014-04-09 |