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Constraining Super-light Sterile Neutrino Scenario by JUNO and RENO-50

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Super-light Sterile Neutrino Scenario (SSNS) has been proposed in the literature to explain the suppression of the upturn in the low energy solar data. In this scenario, the mass splitting between the new mass eigenstate, ν0\nu_0 and the standard ν1\nu_1 is of order of Δm012105\Delta m_{01}^2\sim 10^{-5} eV2^2. Reactor neutrino experiments with baseline larger than \sim20 km can help us to probe this scenario. We study the potential of upcoming JUNO and RENO-50 reactor experiments for discovering the superlight sterile neutrino or constraining its mixing parameters. We study the dependence of sensitivity to the SNSS and find that the proposed JUNO setup is very close to the optimal setup for probing the SSNS.

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@article{arxiv.1308.2823,
  title  = {Constraining Super-light Sterile Neutrino Scenario by JUNO and RENO-50},
  author = {Pouya Bakhti and Yasaman Farzan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2823},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures