%0 Journal Article
%T Probing neutrino quantum decoherence at reactor experiments
%A de Gouvea, A.
%A De Romeri, V.
%A Ternes, C. A.
%J Journal of High Energy Physics
%D 2020
%V 08
%N 8
%I Springer
%@ 1029-8479
%G English
%F deGouvea_etal2020
%O WOS:000561756000001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4501), last updated on Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:55:05 +0000
%X We explore how well reactor antineutrino experiments can constrain or measure the loss of quantum coherence in neutrino oscillations. We assume that decoherence effects are encoded in the size of the neutrino wave-packet, sigma. We find that the current experiments Daya Bay and the Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation (RENO) already constrain sigma >1.0x10(-4) nm and estimate that future data from the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) would be sensitive to sigma <2.1x10(-3) nm. If the effects of loss of coherence are within the sensitivity of JUNO, we expect sigma to be measured with good precision. The discovery of nontrivial decoherence effects in JUNO would indicate that our understanding of the coherence of neutrino sources is, at least, incomplete.
%K Neutrino Physics
%K Beyond Standard Model
%R 10.1007/JHEP08(2020)049
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03022
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)049
%P 049-17pp