Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA

International audience 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 p...

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Published in:Journal of High Energy Physics
Main Authors: Aiello, S., Albert, A., Alshamsi, M., Alves Garre, S., Aly, Z., Ambrosone, A., Ameli, F., Andre, M., Androulakis, G., Anghinolfi, M., Anguita, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Ardid, S., Aublin, J., Bagatelas, C., Baret, B., Basegmez Du Pree, S., Bendahman, M., Benfenati, F., Berbee, E., Berg, A.M. van Den, Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bissinger, M., Boettcher, M., Bou Cabo, M., Boumaaza, J., Bouta, M., Bouwhuis, M., Bozza, C., Brânzaş, H., Bretaudeau, F., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Bruno, R., Buis, E., Buompane, R., Busto, J., Caiffi, B., Calvo, D., Campion, S., Capone, A., Carretero, V., Castaldi, P., Celli, S., Chabab, M., Chau, N., Chen, A., Cherubini, S., Chiarella, V., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Cocimano, R., Coelho, J.A.B., Coleiro, A., Colomer Molla, M., Coniglione, R., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Cruz, A., Cuttone, G., Dallier, R., de Martino, B., de Palma, M., Di Palma, I., Díaz, A.F., Diego-Tortosa, D., Distefano, C., Domi, A., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorr, M., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Eddyamoui, A., van Eeden, T., van Eijk, D., El Bojaddaini, I., Elsaesser, D., Enzenhofer, A., Espinosa, V., Fermani, P., Ferrara, G., Filipovic, M.D., Filippini, F., Fusco, L.A., Gal, T., Garcia Mendez, J., Garcia Soto, A., Garufi, F., Gatelet, Y., Geisselbrech, N., Gialanella, L., Giorgio, E., Gozzini, S.R., Gracia, R., Graf, K., Grella, G., Guderian, D., Guid, C., Gutierrez, M., Haefner, J., Hallmann, S., Hamdaoui, H., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A., Hekalo, A., Hennig, L., Hernandez-Rey, J.J., Hofestadt, J., Huang, F., Ibnsalih, W. Idrissi, Illuminati, G., James, C.W., de Jong, M., de Jong, P., Jung, B.J., Kadler, M., Kalaczynski, P., Kalekin, O., Katz, U.F., Chowdhury, N.R. Khan, Kistauri, G., van Der Knaap, F., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lamoureux, M., Lara, G., Larosa, G., Lastoria, C., Le Breton, R., Le Stum, S., Leonardi, O., Leone, F., Leonora, E., Lessing, N., Levi, G., Lincetto, M., Lindsey Clark, M., Lipreau, T., Longhitano, F., Lopez-Coto, D., Lygda, A., Maderer, L., Mańczak, J., Mannheim, K., Margiotta, A., Marinelli, A., Markou, C., Martin, L., Martínez-Mora, J.A., Martini, A., Marzaioli, F., Mastroianni, S., Melis, K.W., Miele, G., Migliozzi, P., Migneco, E., Mijakowski, P., Miranda, L.S., Mollo, C.M., Moser, M., Moussa, A., Muller, R., Musumeci, M., Nauta, L., Navas, S., Nicolau, C.A., Nkosi, B., Ó Fearraigh, B., O'Sullivan, M., Organokov, M., Orlando, A., González, J. Palacios, Papalashvili, G., Papaleo, R., Pastore, C., Păun, A.M., Pavalas, G.E., Pellegrino, C., Peña Martínez, S., Perrin-Terrin, M., Pestel, V., Piattelli, P., Pieterse, C., Pisanti, O., Poirè, C., Pontoriere, V., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Probst, I., Pühlhofer, G., Pulvirenti, S., Randazzo, N., Razzaque, S., Real, D., Reck, S., Riccobene, G., Romanov, A., Rovelli, A., Greus, F. Salesa, Samtleben, D.F.E., Losa, A. Sánchez, Sanguineti, M., Santangelo, A., Santonocito, D., Sapienza, P., Schnabel, J., Schneider, M.F., Schumann, J., Schutte, H.M., Seneca, J., Sgura, I., Shanidze, R., Sharma, A., Sinopoulou, A., Spisso, B., Spurio, M., Stavropoulos, D., Stellacci, S.M., Taiuti, M., Tatone, F., Tayalati, Y., Thakore, T., Thiersen, H., Tingay, S., Tsagkli, S., Tsourapis, V., Tzamariudaki, E., Tzanetatos, D., van Elewyck, V., Vasileiadis, George, Versari, F., Vivolo, D., de Wasseige, G., Wilms, J., Wojaczyński, R., de Wolf, E., Yousfi, T., Zavatarelli, S., Zegarelli, A., Zito, D., Zornoza, J.D., Zúñiga, J., Zywucka, N.
Other Authors: AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), KM3NeT, ANR-18-IDEX-0001,Université de Paris,Université de Paris(2018)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2021
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Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-03325201
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180
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Summary:International audience 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 θ$_{14}$, θ$_{24}$, θ$_{34}$ and the effective angle θ$_{μe}$, over a broad range of mass squared difference $ \Delta {m}_{41}^2 $ ∼ [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.[graphic not available: see fulltext]