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Novel way to search for sterile neutrinos. / Vergados, J. D.; Giomataris, Y.; Novikov, Y. N.
In: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 85, No. 3, 033003, 09.02.2012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel way to search for sterile neutrinos
AU - Vergados, J. D.
AU - Giomataris, Y.
AU - Novikov, Y. N.
PY - 2012/2/9
Y1 - 2012/2/9
N2 - We show that the existence of a new massive sterile neutrino can be manifested employing a novel experimental method of neutrino oscillations, namely, neutrino oscillometry. With a judicious monochromatic neutrino source the relevant oscillation length is expected to be shorter than 1.5 m. Thus the needed measurements can be implemented with a gaseous spherical time projection chamber of modest dimensions having a very good energy and position resolution. The best candidates for oscillometry are discussed. The expected sensitivity to the mixing angle θ 14 has been estimated: sin -2(2θ 14)=0.05 (99%) with only two months of data handling with Cr51.
AB - We show that the existence of a new massive sterile neutrino can be manifested employing a novel experimental method of neutrino oscillations, namely, neutrino oscillometry. With a judicious monochromatic neutrino source the relevant oscillation length is expected to be shorter than 1.5 m. Thus the needed measurements can be implemented with a gaseous spherical time projection chamber of modest dimensions having a very good energy and position resolution. The best candidates for oscillometry are discussed. The expected sensitivity to the mixing angle θ 14 has been estimated: sin -2(2θ 14)=0.05 (99%) with only two months of data handling with Cr51.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857746541&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.033003
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.033003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857746541
VL - 85
JO - Physical review D
JF - Physical review D
SN - 2470-0010
IS - 3
M1 - 033003
ER -
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