Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS(2021)
摘要
KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light sterile neutrino in a 3+1 model is presented. After three years of data taking, ORCA will be able to probe the active-sterile mixing angles θ 14 , θ 24 , θ 34 and the effective angle θ μe , over a broad range of mass squared difference Δm_41^2 ∼ [10 − 5 , 10] eV 2 , allowing to test the eV-mass sterile neutrino hypothesis as the origin of short baseline anomalies, as well as probing the hypothesis of a very light sterile neutrino, not yet constrained by cosmology. ORCA will be able to explore a relevant fraction of the parameter space not yet reached by present measurements.
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Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments), Oscillation
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