Prospects of Light Sterile Neutrino Oscillation and CP Violation Searches at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Facility

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العنوان: Prospects of Light Sterile Neutrino Oscillation and CP Violation Searches at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Facility
المؤلفون: Cianci, Davio, Furmanski, Andy, Karagiorgi, Georgia, Ross-Lonergan, Mark
المصدر: Phys. Rev. D 96, 055001 (2017)
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
الوصف: We investigate the ability of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experimental program at Fermilab to test the globally-allowed (3+$N$) sterile neutrino oscillation parameter space. We explicitly consider the globally-allowed parameter space for the (3+1), (3+2), and (3+3) sterile neutrino oscillation scenarios. We find that SBN can probe with $5\sigma$ sensitivity more than 85\%, 95\% and 55\% of the parameter space currently allowed at 99\% confidence level for the (3+1), (3+2) and (3+3) scenarios, respectively. In the case of the (3+2) and (3+3) scenarios, CP-violating phases appear in the oscillation probability terms, leading to observable differences in the appearance probabilities of neutrinos and antineutrinos. We explore SBN's sensitivity to those phases for the (3+2) scenario through the currently planned neutrino beam running, and investigate potential improvements through additional antineutrino beam running. We show that, if antineutrino exposure is considered, for maximal values of the (3+2) CP-violating phase $\phi_{54}$, SBN could be the first experiment to directly observe $\sim 2\sigma$ hints of CP violation associated with an extended lepton sector.
Comment: 19 pages, 21 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.055001
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01758
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1702.01758
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.055001