Search for sterile neutrinos in gallium experiments with artificial neutrino sources

Journal Article · Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physics of Particles and Nuclei

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779617060156· OSTI ID:22979449

Cleveland, B. T. ^[1]; Gorbachev, V. V.; Ibragimova, T. V.; Kalikhov, A. V.; Kozlova, Yu. P.; Mirmov, I. N.; Shikhin, A. A.; Veretenkin, E. P. ^[2]

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1. SNOLAB, Lively (Canada)
2. Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)

The possibility of the BEST experiment on electron neutrino disappearance with intense artificial sources of electron neutrino {sup 51}Cr is considered. BEST has the great potential to search for transitions of active neutrinos to sterile states with Δm{sup 2} ∼ 1 eV{sup 2} and to set the limits on short baseline electron neutrino disappearance oscillation parameters. The possibility of the further constraints the oscillation parameters region with using {sup 65}Zn source is discussed.

• OSTI ID: 22979449
• Journal Information: Physics of Particles and Nuclei, Vol. 48, Issue 6; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2017 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7796
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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