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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 50: Neutrinomasse II
T 50.8: Talk
Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 18:30–18:45, VMP5 SR 0079
KATRIN and sterile Neutrinos in the eV mass range — •Marc Korzeczek1, Thierry Lasserre2, and Susanne Mertens1,3 for the KATRIN collaboration — 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany — 2Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, France — 3Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Sterile neutrinos in the eV-mass range could resolve a number of longstanding anomalies in short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The KATRIN Experiment (KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino) designed to measure the mass of the active neutrino, has the potential to search for a signature of light sterile neutrinos without any hardware modification.
In this talk we explore the combined sensitivity of KATRIN with CeSOX (CErium Short distance neutrino Oscillations with boreXino), an experiment dedicated to search for light sterile neutrinos via oscillations. In particular, we study the impact of sterile neutrinos on the KATRIN's active neutrino mass measurement.
This work has been supported by the German BMBF (05A14VK2), by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, Baden-Wuerttemberg (MWK), by the CEA and the Deutschlandstipendium (BMBF and SAP SE).