TY  - JOUR
AU  - KM3NeT Collaboration (Aiello, S. et al
AU  - Alves Garre, S.
AU  - Calvo, D.
AU  - Carretero, V.
AU  - Colomer, M.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Illuminati, G.
AU  - Khan Chowdhury, N. R.
AU  - Manczak, J.
AU  - Palacios Gonzalez, J.
AU  - Pieterse, C.
AU  - Real, D.
AU  - Salesa Greus, F.
AU  - Thakore, T.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021//
TI  - Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
T2  - J. High Energy Phys.
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
SP  - 180
EP  - 26pp
VL  - 10
IS  - 10
PB  - Springer
KW  - Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)
KW  - 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.
SN  - 1029-8479
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00344
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180
DO  - 10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000710339200001
ID  - KM3NeTCollaborationAiello_etal2021
ER  -