KPipe: a decisive test for muon neutrino disappearance
Abstract
The short baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, KPipe, is designed to perform a sensitive search for muon neutrino disappearance in the current global fit allowed regions for sterile neutrinos. KPipe is to be located at the Material Life Science Experimental Facility at J-PARC: the world's most intense source of 236~MeV, monoenergetic muon neutrinos. By measuring the charged current interaction rate along a 120~m long, 3~m diameter detector, KPipe can map out short baseline oscillations over an L/E of 0.14 to 0.64~m/MeV. Using a long, single detector to measure the interaction rate as a function of distance largely eliminates the systematic uncertainties associated with cross sections and fluxes. In this paper, we show that KPipe can cover the current global best fit to 5 after 3 years of running.
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@article{arxiv.1510.06994,
title = {KPipe: a decisive test for muon neutrino disappearance},
author = {Spencer N. Axani and Gabriel Collin and Janet M. Conrad and Mike H. Shaevitz and Josh Spitz and Taritree Wongjirad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06994},
year = {2015}
}
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Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015