Constraining sterile neutrinos with a low energy beta-beam
Abstract
We study the possibility to use a low energy beta-beam facility to search for sterile neutrinos by measuring the disappearance of electron anti-neutrinos. This channel is particularly sensitive since it allows to use inverse beta decay as detection reaction; thus it is free from hadronic uncertainties, provided the neutrino energy is below the pion production threshold. This corresponds to a choice of the Lorentz gamma=30 for the 6He parent ion. Moreover, a disappearance measurement allows the constraint of sterile neutrino properties independently of any CP violating effects. A moderate detector size of a few 100 tons and ion production rates of 2E13 per second are sufficient to constrain mixing angles as small as \sin^22\theta=0.01 at 99% confidence level.
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@article{arxiv.1006.1640,
title = {Constraining sterile neutrinos with a low energy beta-beam},
author = {Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1640},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Talk given at 11th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Betabeams: NuFact09, Chicago, Illinois, 20-25 Jul 2009