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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 78: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik II
T 78.10: Talk
Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 19:00–19:15, VMP9 SR 07
SOX Sensitivity Study — •Johann Martyn for the BOREXINO collaboration — Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
To this day most experimental results on neutrino oscillations can be explained in the standard three neutrino model. There are however a few experiments that show anomalous behaviour at a very short baselines. These anomalies can hypothetically be explained with the existence of one or additional more light neutrino states that do not take part in weak interactions and are thus called sterile.
Although the anomalies only give a hint that such sterile neutrinos could exist the prospect for physics beyond the standard model is a major motivation to investigate the neutrino oscillations in new very short baseline experiments.
The SOX (Short distance Oscillations in BoreXino) experiment will use the Borexino detector and a 144 Ce source to search for sterile neutrinos via the occurance of an oscillation pattern at a baseline of several meters.
This talk will examine the impact of the Borexino detector systematics on the experimental sensitivity of SOX.
The work is supported by the funds of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.