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The gallium anomaly, i.e. the missing electron-neutrino flux from $^{37}$Ar and $^{51}$Cr electron-capture decays as measured by the GALLEX and SAGE solar-neutrino detectors, has been among us already for about two decades. We present here…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-10 Joel Kostensalo , Jouni Suhonen , Carlo Giunti , Praveen C. Srivastava

In order to test the end-to-end operations of gallium solar neutrino experiments, intense electron-capture sources were fabricated to measure the responses of the radiochemical SAGE and GALLEX/GNO detectors to known fluxes of low-energy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-07 Steven R. Elliott , Vladimir Gavrin , Wick Haxton

The Gallium anomaly is an unexplained deficit in the neutrinos observed during the calibration of GALLEX and SAGE using a $^{51}$Cr radioactive source and recently confirmed by BEST. The possible explanations for this deficit include an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-30 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Ruixuan Gao , Haixing Lin , Jian Tang

A series of experiments studying neutrinos from intense radioactive sources have reported a deficit in the measured event rate which, in combination, has reached a statistical significance of $\sim 5\sigma$. In this paper, we explore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-02 Vedran Brdar , Julia Gehrlein , Joachim Kopp

We calculate the statistical significance of the anomalous deficit of electron neutrinos measured in the radioactive source experiments of the GALLEX and SAGE solar neutrino detectors taking into account the uncertainty of the detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-02 Carlo Giunti , Marco Laveder

The gallium anomaly, a persistent discrepancy exceeding $4\sigma$ in the $^{71}$Ga neutrino capture rates from $^{51}$Cr and $^{37}$Ar radioactive sources by the GALLEX, SAGE, and recently BEST experiments, has challenged particle physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , G. Carotenuto , F. Dordei , L. Ferro , C. Giunti

O(1) eV sterile neutrino can be responsible for a number of anomalous results of neutrino oscillation experiments. This hypothesis may be tested at short base-line neutrino oscillation experiments, several of which are either ongoing or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Vladislav Barinov , Bruce Cleveland , Vladimir Gavrin , Dmitry Gorbunov , Tatiana Ibragimova

The significance of the Gallium Anomaly, from the BEST, GALLEX, and SAGE radioactive source experiments, is quantified using different theoretical calculations of the neutrino detection cross section, and its explanation due to neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , C. A. Ternes , O. Tyagi , Z. Xin

For over thirty years, a $\sim20\%$ deficit, now exceeding $5\sigma$, has persisted between measured and predicted neutrino capture rates on $^{71}$Ga, as observed in radioactive source experiments (namely GALLEX, SAGE, and more recently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , L. Ferro , C. Giunti , M. Pitzalis

The Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly refers to the deficit observed between the average event rate measured in reactor antineutrino experiments with respect to the theoretical prediction. This anomaly was first identified in 2011 ($2.5\sigma$)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , R. P. Zhang

We consider an alternative explanation for the deficit of nu_e in Ga solar neutrino calibration experiments and of the anti nu_e in short baseline reactor experiments by a model where neutrinos can oscillate into sterile Kaluza-Klein modes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-29 P. A. N. Machado , H. Nunokawa , F. A. Pereira dos Santos , R. Zukanovich Funchal

In the recent Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST), a suppressed rate of neutrino absorption on a gallium target was observed, consistent with earlier results from neutrino source calibrations of the SAGE and GALLEX/GNO solar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 S. R. Elliott , V. N. Gavrin , W. C. Haxton , T. V. Ibragimova , E. J. Rule

A dedicated high-statistics measurement of the $^{71}$Ge half-life is found to be in accurate agreement with an accepted value of 11.43$\pm$0.03 d, eliminating a recently proposed route to bypass the "gallium anomaly" affecting several…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-31 J. I. Collar , S. G. Yoon

Gallium radioactive source experiments have reported a neutrino-induced event rate about 20\% lower than expected with a high statistical significance. We present an explanation of this observation assuming quantum decoherence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Yasaman Farzan , Thomas Schwetz

The article describes a new experiment with an artificial neutrino source 58Co on a gallium target GGNT (SAGE). The goal of the experiment is to study the gallium anomaly. The experiment makes it possible to find the parameters of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-15 V. N. Gavrin , V. V. Gorbachev , T. V. Ibragimova , V. A. Matveev

The gallium anomaly has a global significance of greater than $5\sigma$. Most viable BSM solutions quickly run into strong tensions with reactor and solar neutrino data. We propose to use indium (${}^{115}\text{In}$) as a target as it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Garv Chauhan , Patrick Huber

Recently the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) has presented results confirming the gallium anomaly -- a lack of electron neutrinos $\nu_e$ at calibrations of SAGE and GALLEX -- at the statistical significance exceeding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-23 Vladislav Barinov , Dmitry Gorbunov

Solar neutrino flux constraints from the legacy GALLEX/GNO and SAGE experiments continue to influence contemporary global analyses of neutrino properties. The constraints depend on the neutrino absorption cross sections for various solar…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-01-08 W. C. Haxton , Evan Rule

We study the online detection by gallium capture of mono-energetic neutrinos produced by a $^{51}$Cr radioactive source in a scintillation experiment. We find that cerium-doped gadolinium aluminum gallium garnet (GAGG) is a suitable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Patrick Huber

The Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST) probes the gallium anomaly and its possible connections to oscillations between active and sterile neutrinos. Based on the Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope (GGNT) technology of the…

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