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Revisiting PS191 limits on sterile neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We perform Monte Carlo simulations of the sterile neutrino signal at the fixed target experiment PS191 operated on a proton beam of 19.2\,GeV at CERN in the eighties. We find that the strongest bounds the PS191 could obtain are significantly lower than what they published, and now are obsolete being surpassed by recent T2K, NA62, E949, TRIUMF and PIENU experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2112.06800,
  title  = {Revisiting PS191 limits on sterile neutrinos},
  author = {Dmitry Gorbunov and Igor Krasnov and Sergey Suvorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.06800},
  year   = {2022}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures; v2: replaced with the journal version