LIQUIDating the Gallium Anomaly
Abstract
The gallium anomaly has a global significance of greater than . Most viable BSM solutions quickly run into strong tensions with reactor and solar neutrino data. We propose to use indium () as a target as it offers a low threshold and reasonably high cross section. The neutrino-indium charged current cross section can be calibrated using the well-constrained solar neutrino flux that lies very close in energy to the neutrino lines. The triple coincidence provided by neutrino capture can be fully exploited by an opaque scintillation detector that also provides energy and position information. We show that a ton indium target combined with 2 source runs of a MCi source can probe the complete parameter space of the gallium anomaly, both in the context of a vanilla sterile neutrino as well as more involved BSM scenarios.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.07397,
title = {LIQUIDating the Gallium Anomaly},
author = {Garv Chauhan and Patrick Huber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.07397},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
13 pages, 9 figures