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Confronting solutions of the Gallium Anomaly with reactor rate data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Recently, several models have been suggested to reduce the tension between Gallium and reactor antineutrino spectral ratio data which is found in the framework of 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing. Among these models, we consider the extensions of 3+1 mixing with a finite wavepacket size, or the decay of the heaviest neutrino ν4\nu_4, or the possibility to have a broad ν4\nu_4 mass distribution. We consider the reactor antineutrino rate data and we show that these models cannot liminate the tension between Gallium and reactor rate data that is found in the 3+1 neutrino mixing framework. Indeed, we show that the parameter goodness of fit remains small. We consider also a model which explains the Gallium Anomaly with non-standard decoherence in the framework of three-neutrino mixing. We find that it is compatible with the reactor rate data.

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@article{arxiv.2312.00565,
  title  = {Confronting solutions of the Gallium Anomaly with reactor rate data},
  author = {Carlo Giunti and Christoph A. Ternes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.00565},
  year   = {2023}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table