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Experimental searches on sterile neutrinos

Michael Wurm

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PhysicsSterile neutrinoParticle physicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsSolar neutrinoHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologySolar neutrino problemNuclear physicsNeutrino detectorMeasurements of neutrino speedHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoNeutrino oscillationBorexino

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While neutrino oscillations among the three active neutrino flavors are by now well established, several anomalies observed at relatively short baselines in oscillation experiments hint towards the existence of one or more additional sterile neutrino flavors. As a consequence, several experiments are in preparation that are dedicated to test the sterile neutrino hypothesis. The present contribution gives an overview of the on-going experimental efforts, highlighting the two projects that are foreseen to start in 2015: SOX deploying a radioactive neutrino source at short distance from the BOREXINO detector at LNGS, and STEREO searching for sterile neutrino oscillations at short distance from the ILL reactor core.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2015-10-09Proceedings of XIIth International Conference on Heavy Quarks & Leptons 2014 — PoS(HQL2014)
https://doi.org/10.22323/1.223.0020