2013/09/26 by A. Gando, Gando, A., Y. Gando +119 · 4 citations
Chemistry · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Anomaly (physics) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Chemistry #Detector #Electron neutrino #FOS: Physical sciences #Flux (metallurgy) #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino oscillation #Nuclear physics #Optics #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Particle physics #Physics #Scintillator #Solar neutrino #Sterile neutrino #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.6805
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · White paper prepared for Snowmass-2013; slightly different author list
openalex publication_date 2013/09/26 · arxiv created 2013/10/12 · arxiv updated 2013/10/15 · openalex created_date 2022/10/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose to test for short baseline neutrino oscillations, implied by the recent reevaluation of the reactor antineutrino flux and by anomalous results from the gallium solar neutrino detectors. The test will consist of producing a 75 kCi 144Ce - 144Pr antineutrino source to be deployed in the Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND). KamLAND's 13m diameter target volume provides a suitable environment to measure energy and position dependence of the detected neutrino flux. A characteristic oscillation pattern would be visible for a baseline of about 10 m or less, providing a very clean signal of neutrino disappearance into a yet-unknown, "sterile" state. Such a measurement will be free of any reactor-related uncertainties. After 1.5 years of data taking the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly parameter space will be tested at > 95% C.L.