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A sterile neutrino search at compact materials irradiation facility

Published:2020-02 Issue:2 Volume:80 Page:
ISSN:1434-6044
Container-title:The European Physical Journal C
language:en
Short-container-title:Eur. Phys. J. C

Author:

Chen Liangwen,Cai Han-Jie,Ciuffoli Emilio,Evslin Jarah,Fu Fen,Zhang Sheng,Chen Xurong,Yang Lei,Zhan Wenlong

Abstract

AbstractThe compact material irradiation facility (CMIF) is a current project in China that will provide a compact deuteron-beryllium neutron source. The target of this facility will be an intense and compact Isotope Decay-At-Rest (IsoDAR) neutrino source. In this paper, we propose to test the sterile neutrino hypothesis using CMIF as the neutrino source. At CMIF platform, the electron antineutrino production rate can be up to

$$2.0\times 10^{19}$$

2.0×1019 per day. When paired with an 80 t liquid scintillator detector to study short baseline electron antineutrino disappearance, the inverse beta decay (IBD) event rate is large enough to investigate the parameter ranges of interest for neutrino anomalies. Our sensitivity analysis shows that a short baseline experiment at this platform will provide a very competitive sterile neutrino search, especially in the high-

$$\Delta m^2$$

Δm2 region (

$$\Delta m^2 >10\,\text {eV}^2$$

Δm2>10eV2).

Funder

National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents

CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences Presidents International Fellowship Initiative

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous),Engineering (miscellaneous)

Link

http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7643-1.pdf

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