Hamburg 2016 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 60: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik I
T 60.1: Gruppenbericht
Dienstag, 1. März 2016, 16:45–17:05, VMP9 SR 07
SOX: Search for Sterile Neutrinos with Borexino — •Mikko Meyer for the BOREXINO collaboration — Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg
Several observed anomalies in the neutrino sector could be explained by a 4th (sterile) neutrino with a squared mass difference in the order of 1eV2 to the other three standard neutrinos. This hypothesis can be tested with an artificial kCi antineutrino (Ce-144/Pr-144) source deployed near or inside a large low background detector like Borexino. The SOX project (short baseline neutrino oscillation with Borexino) aims for the detection of sterile neutrinos and offers the almost unique possibility to observe the characteristic antineutrino oscillation pattern within the detector. The talk will summarize this concept and will show the sensitivities for the possible phases of the experiment.