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Neutrino Physics Opportunities with the IsoDAR Source at Yemilab

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2022-04-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

IsoDAR seeks to place a high-power-cyclotron and target combination, as an intense source of νˉe\bar{\nu}_e at the level of 1023\sim 10^{23}/year, close to a kiloton-scale neutrino detector in order to gain sensitivity to very short-baseline neutrino oscillations (νˉeνˉe\bar{\nu}_e \rightarrow \bar{\nu}_{e}) and perform precision tests of the weak interaction, among other physics opportunities. Recently, IsoDAR has received preliminary approval to be paired with the 2.26~kton target volume liquid scintillator detector at the Yemi Underground Laboratory (Yemilab) in Korea, at a 17~m center-to-center baseline, and cavern excavation for IsoDAR is now complete. In this paper, we present the physics capabilities of IsoDAR@Yemilab in terms of sensitivity to oscillations (via inverse beta decay, IBD; νˉe+pe++n\bar{\nu}_e+p \rightarrow e^+ + n), including initial-state wavepacket effects, and the weak mixing angle (via elastic scattering off atomic electrons, νˉe+eνˉe+e\bar{\nu}_e + e^- \rightarrow \bar{\nu}_e + e^-). We also introduce a study of IsoDAR sensitivity to new particles, such as a light XX boson, produced in the target that decays to νeνˉe\nu_e \bar \nu_e.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09480,
  title  = {Neutrino Physics Opportunities with the IsoDAR Source at Yemilab},
  author = {J. Alonso and C. A. Argüelles and A. Bungau and J. M. Conrad and B. Dutta and Y. D. Kim and E. Marzec and D. Mishins and S. H. Seo and M. Shaevitz and J. Spitz and A. Thompson and L. Waites and D. Winklehner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09480},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

17 pages, 16 figures; this version presents a number of new physics topics and studies