Constraining sterile neutrinos with a low energy beta-beam

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)071zbMATH Open1269.81203arXiv0907.3145MaRDI QIDQ359094FDOQ359094

Patrick Huber, Jonathan M. Link, Sanjib K. Agarwalla

Publication date: 9 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that a low energy beta-beam facility can be used to search for sterile neutrinos by measuring the disappearance of electron anti-neutrinos. This channel is particularly sensitive since it allows to use inverse beta decay as detection reaction; thus it is free from hadronic uncertainties, provided the neutrino energy is below the pion production threshold. This corresponds to a choice of the Lorentz gamma=30 for the 6He parent ion. Moreover, a disappearance measurement allows the constraint of sterile neutrino properties independently of any CP violating effects. A moderate detector size of a few 100 tons and ion production rates of 2E13 per second are sufficient to constrain mixing angles as small as sin^22 heta=0.01 at 99% confidence level.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3145

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelneutrino physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Inverse scattering problems in quantum theory (81U40) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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