Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA

Aiello S, Albert A, Alshamsi M, Garre SA, Aly Z, Ambrosone A, Ameli F, Andre M, Androulakis G, Anghinolfi M, Anguita M, Anton G, Ardid M, Ardid S, Aublin J, Bagatelas C, Baret B, Du Pree SB, Bendahman M, Benfenati F, Berbee E, Van Den Berg AM, Bertin , Biagi S, Bissinger M, Boettcher M, Cabo MB, Boumaaza J, Bouta M, Bouwhuis M, Bozza C, Branzas H, Bretaudeau F, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Bruno R, Buis E, Buompane R, Busto J, Caiffi B, Calvo D, Campion S, Capone A, Carretero , Castaldi P, Celli S, Chabab M, Chau N, Chen A, Cherubini S, Chiarella , Chiarusi T, Circella M, Cocimano R, Coelho JAB, Coleiro A, Colomer Molla M, Coniglione R, Coyle P, Creusot A, Cruz A, Cuttone G, Dallier R, De Martino B, De Palma M, Di Palma , Diaz AF, Diego-Tortosa D, Distefano C, Domi A, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Dorr M, Drouhin D, Eberl T, Eddyamoui A, Van Eeden T, Van Eijk D, El Bojaddaini , Elsaesser D, Enzenhofer A, Espinosa , Fermani P, Ferrara G, Filipovic MD, Filippini F, Fusco LA, Gal T, Garcia Mendez J, Soto AG, Garufi F, Gatelet Y, Geißelbrecht N, Gialanella L, Giorgio E, Gozzini SR, Gracia R, Graf K, Grella G, Guderian D, Guidi C, Gutierrez M, Haefner J, Hallmann S, Hamdaoui H, Van Haren H, Heijboer A, Hekalo A, Hennig L, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Hofestadt J, Huang F, Ibnsalih WI, Illuminati G, James CW, De Jong M, De Jong P, Jung BJ, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Chowdhury NRK, Kistauri G, Van Der Knaap F, Kooijman P, Kouchner A, Kulikovskiy , Lahmann R, Lamoureux M, Lara G, Larosa G, Lastoria C, Le Breton R, Le Stum S, Leonardi O, Leone F, Leonora E, Lessing N, Levi G, Lincetto M, Clark ML, Lipreau T, Longhitano F, Lopez-Coto D, Lygda A, Maderer L, Mannheim K, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Markou C, Martin L, Martinez-Mora JA, Martini A, Marzaioli F, Mastroianni S, Melis W, Miele G, Migliozzi P, Migneco E, Mijakowski P, Miranda LS, Mollo CM, Moser M, Moussa A, Muller R, Musumeci M, Nauta L, Navas S, Nicolau CA, Nkosi B, Fearraigh BO, O'Sullivan M, Organokov M, Orlando A, Palacios Gonzalez J, Papalashvili G, Papaleo R, Pastore C, Paun AM, Pavalas GE, Pellegrino C, Martinez SP, Perrin-Terrin M, Pestel , Piattelli P, Pieterse C, Pisanti O, Poire C, Pontoriere , Popa , Pradier T, Probst , Puehlhofer G, Pulvirenti S, Randazzo N, Razzaque S, Real D, Reck S, Riccobene G, Romanov A, Rovelli A, Greus FS, Samtleben DFE, Losa AS, Sanguineti M, Santangelo A, Santonocito D, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Schneider MF, Schumann J, Schutte HM, Seneca J, Sgura , Shanidze R, Sharma A, Sinopoulou A, Spisso B, Spurio M, Stavropoulos D, Stellacci SM, Taiuti M, Tatone F, Tayalati Y, Thakore T, Thiersen H, Tingay S, Tsagkli S, Tsourapis , Tzamariudaki E, Tzanetatos D, Van Elewyck V, Vasileiadis G, Versari F, Vivolo D, De Wasseige G, Wilms J, De Wolf E, Yousfi T, Zavatarelli S, Zegarelli A, Zito D, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J, Zywuckau N (2021)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2021

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Journal Issue: 10

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180

Abstract

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 theta(14), theta(24), theta(34) and the effective angle theta(mu e), over a broad range of mass squared difference Delta m(41)(2) similar to [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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APA:

Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Garre, S.A., Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A.,... Zywuckau, N. (2021). Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180

MLA:

Aiello, S., et al. "Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA." Journal of High Energy Physics 10 (2021).

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