TY  - JOUR
AU  - Thakore, T.
AU  - Devi, M. M.
AU  - Agarwalla, S. K.
AU  - Dighe, A.
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Active-sterile neutrino oscillations at INO-ICAL over a wide mass-squared range
T2  - J. High Energy Phys.
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
SP  - 022
EP  - 34pp
VL  - 08
IS  - 8
PB  - Springer
KW  - Neutrino Physics
KW  - Beyond Standard Model
AB  - We perform a detailed analysis for the prospects of detecting active-sterile oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino, over a large Delta m(41)(2 )range of 10(-5) eV(2) to 10(2) eV(2), using 10 years of atmospheric neutrino data expected from the proposed 50 kt magnetized ICAL detector at the INO. This detector can observe the atmospheric nu(mu), and (nu) over bar (mu) separately over a wide range of energies and baselines, making it sensitive to the magnitude and sign of Arni i over a large range. If there is no light sterile neutrino, ICAL can place competitive upper limit on vertical bar U-mu 4 vertical bar(2) less than or similar to 0.02 at 90% C.L. for Delta m(41)(2) in the range (0.5-5) x 10(-3) eV(2). For the same vertical bar Delta m(41)(2)vertical bar range, ICAL would be able to determine its sign, exploiting the Earth's matter effect in mu(-) and mu(+) events separately if there is indeed a light sterile neutrino in Nature. This would help identify the neutrino mass ordering in the four-neutrino mixing scenario.
SN  - 1029-8479
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09613
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2018)022
DO  - 10.1007/JHEP08(2018)022
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000441224700009
ID  - Thakore_etal2018
ER  -