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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 60: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik I
T 60.2: Vortrag
Dienstag, 1. März 2016, 17:05–17:20, VMP9 SR 07
Study of systematics for the SOX experiment — •Birgit Neumair for the BOREXINO collaboration — James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching bei München
In the last years, several neutrino oscillation experiments reported results not compatible within the 3-neutrino model, which hint at the existence of light sterile neutrinos. To test this hypothesis, the SOX (Short distance neutrino Oscillations in BoreXino) experiment will search for oscillations from active to sterile neutrinos by placing radioactive electron (anti-)neutrino sources underneath the Borexino detector. Oscillations will be observed via a reduction of the detected interaction rate of the electron(anti-)neutrinos and an oscillatory pattern as a function of the neutrino energy and travelled distance.
The talk will give an overview of the experiment with the focus on the systematics and their impact on the sensitivity for a 100kCi 144Ce source.
The work is supported by the DFG cluster of excellence "Origin and Structure of the Universe".