BEST potential in testing the eV-scale sterile neutrino explanation of reactor antineutrino anomalies
| Autor: | Dmitry Gorbunov, V. N. Gavrin, Vladislav Barinov, Valery Gorbachev, Tatiana Ibragimova |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sterile neutrino
Particle physics Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena FOS: Physical sciences chemistry.chemical_element Scale (descriptive set theory) 01 natural sciences High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) 0103 physical sciences Gallium 010306 general physics Physics 010308 nuclear & particles physics SAGE High Energy Physics::Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology chemistry High Energy Physics::Experiment Anomaly (physics) GALLEX Neutrino Electron neutrino Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review |
| Popis: | Baksan Experiment on Sterile Neutrino (BEST) is presently at the stage of production of the artificial neutrino source Cr-51, the gallium exposure will start in July and proceed for three months. While aiming specifically at investigating the Gallium neutrino anomaly (SAGE and GALLEX experiments), BEST can do more and it is tempting to estimate its ability in testing sterile neutrino explanation of antineutrino (reactor) anomalies. We observe a moderate sensitivity to the region in model parameter space (sterile neutrino mass and mixing with active electron neutrino) outlined by the old reactor antineutrino anomaly and the best fit of DANSS experiment, while the Neutrino-4 favorite region falls right in the BEST ballpark. In particular, by analyzing SAGE+GALLEX and Neutrino-4 $\chi^2$ distributions we find that Neutrino-4 results are fully consistent with the Gallium anomaly, the significance of the combined anomaly almost reaches 4$\sigma$ level. If the BEST confirms the Neutrino-4 results, the joint analysis will indicate more than 5$\sigma$ evidence for the sterile neutrino of eV-scale mass. Comment: 4 pages; v2: journal version |
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