The search for sterile neutrinos with SOX-Borexino
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Beitragende
- Professur für Kernphysik
- Excellence Cluster ORIGINS
- Università degli Studi di Milano
- Princeton University
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
- Universität Hamburg
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Gran Sasso Science Institute
- National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- RAS - Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
- University of Houston
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
- Université Paris Cité
- NASU - Institute of Nuclear Research
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- Technische Universität Dresden
Abstract
The aim of the SOX-Borexino project is to verify or falsify the existence of eV-scale sterile neutrinos. The existence of sterile neutrinos is suspected because of several anomalies, which were observed in previous experiments. A ~3.7 PBq electron antineutrino source made of 144Ce will be installed below the Borexino detector at LNGS, Italy, to search for short-baseline oscillations of active-to-sterile neutrinos within the detector volume. Source delivery and beginning of data acquisition is planned for end of 2016, preliminary results are expected already in 2017.
Details
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
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| Seiten (von - bis) | 1481-1484 |
| Seitenumfang | 4 |
| Fachzeitschrift | Physics of atomic nuclei : an English translation of the journal "Yadernaya fizika" |
| Jahrgang | 79 |
| Ausgabenummer | 11-12 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 1 Dez. 2016 |
| Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Externe IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-6705-7138/work/176344578 |
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Schlagworte
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Schlagwörter
- astroparticle physics, Borexino, particle physics, sterile neutrinos