Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
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...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/360554 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/360554 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Telescopes Neutrinos Neutrino astrophysics Astronomy -- Observations Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments) Oscillation Neutrins Astrofísica Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Astronomia i astrofísica |
| Sumario: | 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 θ14, θ24, θ34 and the effective angle θµe, over a broad range of mass squared difference ∆m2 41 „ r10´5 , 10s eV2 , 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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