D. Cianci
Prospects of light sterile neutrino oscillation and CP violation searches at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Facility
Cianci, D.; Furmanski, A.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ross-Lonergan, M.
Authors
A. Furmanski
G. Karagiorgi
M. Ross-Lonergan
Abstract
We investigate the ability of the short baseline neutrino (SBN) experimental program at Fermilab to test the globally-allowed (3 þ N) sterile neutrino oscillation parameter space. We explicitly consider the globally-allowed parameter space for the (3 þ 1), (3 þ 2), and (3 þ 3) sterile neutrino oscillation scenarios. We find that SBN can probe with 5σ sensitivity more than 85%, 95% and 55% of the parameter space currently allowed at 99% confidence level for the (3 þ 1), (3 þ 2) and (3 þ 3) scenarios, respectively, with the (3 þ N) allowed space used in these studies closely resembling that of previous studies [J. M. Conrad, C. M. Ignarra, G. Karagiorgi, M. H. Shaevitz, and J. Spitz, Adv. High Energy Phys. 2013, 1 (2013).], calculated using the same methodology. In the case of the (3 þ 2) and (3 þ 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 þ 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 þ 2) CP-violating phase ϕ54, SBN could be the first experiment to directly observe ∼2σ hints of CP violation associated with an extended lepton sector.
Citation
Cianci, D., Furmanski, A., Karagiorgi, G., & Ross-Lonergan, M. (2017). Prospects of light sterile neutrino oscillation and CP violation searches at the Fermilab Short Baseline Neutrino Facility. Physical Review D, 96(5), Article 055001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.055001
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Online Publication Date | Sep 5, 2017 |
| Publication Date | Sep 5, 2017 |
| Deposit Date | Oct 12, 2017 |
| Publicly Available Date | Oct 12, 2017 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Print ISSN | 2470-0010 |
| Electronic ISSN | 2470-0029 |
| Publisher | American Physical Society |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Article Number | 055001 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.055001 |
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