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PIPERADE: A double Penning trap for mass separation and mass spectrometry at DESIR/SPIRAL2
2021
International audience; A double Penning trap is being commissioned at CENBG Bordeaux for the future DESIR/SPIRAL2 facility of GANIL. The setup is designed to perform both high-resolution mass separation of the ion beam for trap-assisted spectroscopy, and high-accuracy mass spectrometry of short-lived nuclides. In this paper, the technical details of the new device are described. First offline tests with the purification trap are also presented, showing a mass resolving power of about 105.
The Minimal 3 + 2 Neutrino Model vs. Higgs Decays
2016
Abstract The minimal 3+2 neutrino model is a Type-I seesaw model with two Weyl fermions, singlets under the Standard Model. Apart from light neutrino masses and mixings, this model can be fully described by four additional parameters. In this work, we study the minimal 3+2 neutrino model in scenarios where the singlets have masses at the GeV scale. This can lead to Higgs decays into heavy neutrinos, which could be observable as displaced vertices at the LHC.
Non-standard interactions with high-energy atmospheric neutrinos at IceCube
2017
Non-standard interactions in the propagation of neutrinos in matter can lead to significant deviations from expectations within the standard neutrino oscillation framework and atmospheric neutrino detectors have been considered to set constraints. However, most previous works have focused on relatively low-energy atmospheric neutrino data. Here, we consider the one-year high-energy through-going muon data in IceCube, which has been already used to search for light sterile neutrinos, to constrain new interactions in the $\mu\tau$-sector. In our analysis we include several systematic uncertainties on both, the atmospheric neutrino flux and on the detector properties, which are accounted for v…
Updated global analysis of the atmospheric neutrino data in terms of neutrino oscillations
2000
A global analysis of all the available atmospheric neutrino data is presented in terms of neutrino oscillations in the nu_mu -> nu_tau and nu_mu -> nu_s channels, where nu_s denotes a sterile neutrino. We perform our analysis of the contained events data as well as the upward-going neutrino-induced muon fluxes. In addition to the previous data samples of Frejus, Nusex, IMB and Kamioka experiments, we include the full data set of the 52 kton-yr of Super-Kamiokande, the recent 4.6 kton-yr contained events of Soudan2 and the results on upgoing muons from the MACRO and Baksan detectors. From the statistical analysis it emerges that the nu_mu -> nu_tau channel provides the best agreemen…
Neutrino Masses and Mixing one Decade from Now
2000
We review the status of neutrino masses and mixings in the light of the solar and atmospheric neutrino data. The result from the LSND experiment is also considered. We discuss the present knowledge and the expected sensitivity to the neutrino mixing parameters in the simplest schemes proposed to reconcile these data some of which include a light sterile neutrino in addition to the three standard ones.
Neutrino masses, leptogenesis, and dark matter in a hybrid seesaw model
2009
4 pages.-- ISI article identifier:000263816600020.-- ArXiv pre-print avaible at:http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0953
Physics at new accelerators: Looking beyond the Standard Model
1993
Abstract Neutrino masses can have important implications in nuclear and particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Apart from the effects related to solar neutrinos, neutrino oscillations, dark matter, beta and double beta decays, massive neutrinos can also produce signals in the new accelerators. Here I focus on μ and τ number violating processes, very promising for muon and tau factories, as well as on the signatures associated with spontaneously broken R parity supersymmetry and neutral heavy leptons. These include the possibility of high rates for single chargino and neutralino production at LEP, LHC/SSC, as well as new signatures involving invisibly decaying Higgs bosons.
Neutrino magnetic moments and low-energy solar neutrino-electron scattering experiments
1998
The scattering of solar neutrinos on electrons is sensitive to the neutrino magnetic moments through an interference of electromagnetic and weak amplitudes in the cross section. We show that future low-energy solar neutrino experiments with good angular resolution can be sensitive to the resulting azimuthal asymmetries in event number and should provide useful information on non-standard neutrino properties such as magnetic moments. We compare asymmetries expected at HELLAZ (mainly pp neutrinos) with those at the Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande experiments (Boron neutrinos), both for the case of Dirac and Majorana neutrinos and discuss the advantages of low energies. Potentially interesting…
On the description of non-unitary neutrino mixing
2015
28 pages.- 8 figures.- typos corrected.- modified bounds on non-unitarity parameters.- new figs 3 and 4
Continuous Stern–Gerlach effect and the magnetic moment of the antiproton
2004
Abstract The measurement of the magnetic moment (or g-factor ) of the antiproton and of the proton is a sensitive test of CPT invariance. We discuss the possibility of applying the continuous Stern–Gerlach effect to detect quantum jumps between the two spin states (spin up and spin down) of the antiproton. The measurement will be performed on a single antiproton stored in a Penning trap. The g -factor of the antiproton is determined by measuring its cyclotron frequency and its spin precession frequency in the magnetic field of the trap. With the double Penning trap method the g -factor of the antiproton can be determined with an accuracy of 1 ppb.