Conveners
Parallel Session 3: Reactors and More
- Vittorio Paolone (University of Pittsburgh)
Nuclear reactors have been workhorses for neutrino physics since its inception, and have been critical in establishing neutrino oscillations. While the three-oscillating-neutrino paradigm has been remarkably successful, long-standing anomalies at LSND, MiniBooNE, gallium experiments and reactor experiments may be pointing to the existence of new physics that can affect this phenomenon. In this...
The recent observation of coherent neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering, or CEvNS for short, provides a novel window to probe standard and beyond standard physics in the neutrino sector. A key feature of nuclear interactions is when the momentum transferred to the nucleus is relatively small, near or below the MeV scale, so that the neutrino can coherently scatter off the whole nucleus instead...
The physics programs of LArTPCs primarily focus on signals in the GeV energy range. In recent years, the potential for LArTPCs as a low-energy experiment has been fruitfully explored, specifically regarding its sensitivity to signals as low as 5-10 MeV such as those associated with supernova burst and solar neutrinos in DUNE. In this presentation, we will discuss the requirements and...
In this presentation I will discuss the phenomena of invisible neutrino decay in which a heavy active neutrino state decays into a light sterile neutrino state and present a comparative analysis of two baseline options, 540 km and 360 km, for the ESSnuSB experimental setup. In particular, I will discuss the capability of this experiment to: (i) put a bound on the decay parameter, (ii)...
