The search for sterile neutrinos with SOX-Borexino
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Contributors
- Chair of Nuclear Physics
- Excellence Cluster ORIGINS
- University of Milan
- Princeton University
- University of Hamburg
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Gran Sasso Science Institute
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- University of Houston
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
- Université Paris Cité
- NASU - Institute of Nuclear Research
- University of Tübingen
- TUD Dresden University of Technology
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
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1481-1484 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physics of atomic nuclei : an English translation of the journal "Yadernaya fizika" |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 11-12 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2016 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-6705-7138/work/176344578 |
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Keywords
- astroparticle physics, Borexino, particle physics, sterile neutrinos