PT Journal
AU KM3NeT Collaboration (Aiello, Sea
   Alves Garre, S
   Calvo, D
   Carretero, V
   Colomer, M
   Hernandez-Rey, JJ
   Illuminati, G
   Khan Chowdhury, NR
   Manczak, J
   Palacios Gonzalez, J
   Pieterse, C
   Real, D
   Salesa Greus, F
   Thakore, T
   Zornoza, JD
   Zuñiga, J
TI Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
SO Journal of High Energy Physics
JI J. High Energy Phys.
PY 2021
BP 180
EP 26pp
VL 10
IS 10
DI 10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180
LA English
DE Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments); Oscillation
AB 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 theta(14), theta(24), theta(34) and the effective angle theta(mu e), over a broad range of mass squared difference Delta m(41)(2) similar to [10(-5), 10] eV(2), 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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