TY  - JOUR
AU  - de Gouvea, A.
AU  - De Romeri, V.
AU  - Ternes, C. A.
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Probing neutrino quantum decoherence at reactor experiments
T2  - J. High Energy Phys.
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
SP  - 049
EP  - 17pp
VL  - 08
IS  - 8
PB  - Springer
KW  - Neutrino Physics
KW  - Beyond Standard Model
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1029-8479
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03022
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)049
DO  - 10.1007/JHEP08(2020)049
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000561756000001
ID  - deGouvea_etal2020
ER  -