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1–5 Sep 2017
China National Convention Center
Asia/Shanghai timezone

Search for eV Sterile Neutrinos – The Stereo Experiment

2 Sep 2017, 15:40
20m
301B (China National Convention Center)

301B

China National Convention Center

3) Neutrino physics Neutrino physics

Speaker

Victor HELAINE (Laboratoire de Physique Saubatomique et Cosmologie, CNRS/IN2P3)

Description

In the recent years, major milestones in neutrino physics were accomplished at nuclear reactors: the smallest neutrino mixing angle θ13 was determined with high precision and the emitted antineutrino spectrum was measured at unprecedented resolution. However, two anomalies, the first one related to the absolute flux and the second one to the spectral shape, have yet to be solved. The flux anomaly is known as the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly and could be caused by the existence of a light sterile neutrino eigenstate participating in the neutrino oscillation phenomenon. Introducing a sterile state implies the presence of a fourth mass eigenstate, while global fits favor oscillation parameters around sin22θnew=0.09 and Δm2new=1.8 eV2. The Stereo experiment was built to finally solve this puzzle. It is one of the first running experiments built to search for eV sterile neutrinos and takes data since end of 2016 at ILL Grenoble (France). At a short baseline of 10 meters, it measures the antineutrino flux and spectrum emitted by a compact research reactor. The segmentation of the detector in six target cells allows for independent measurements of the neutrino spectrum at multiple baselines. An active-sterile flavor oscillation could be unambiguously detected, as it distorts the spectral shape of each cell’s measurement differently. This presentation will give an overview on the Stereo experiment, along with details on the detector design, detection principle and the current status of data analysis.

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