Sterile Neutrino Sensitivity with Wrong-Sign Muon Appearance at nuSTORM

2012/05/29 by C. Tunnell, C. D. Tunnell, Tunnell, C. D.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.6338

19 pages, 14 figures; revised with updated references, higher resolution contour, and naming conventions like the LOI

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Abstract

Neutrinos from STORed Muons (nuSTORM; formerly VLENF) is a proposed experiment to use 3.8 GeV/c muon decay to produce a well-understood beam of electron and muon neutrinos that can be used for short baseline physics. A magnetized far detector allows for the wrong-sign muon appearance physics of electron-neutrino to muon-neutrino. This channel is the CPT of the LSND anomaly and provides 10 sigma sensitivity to the anomaly. This note contains a detailed explanation of the nSTORM appearance analysis that was included in the Letter of Intent.

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• Sensitivity to eV-scale Neutrinos of Experiments at a Very Low Energy Neutrino Factory
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• Neutrinos from Stored Muons nuSTORM: Expression of Interest