TY - JOUR
T1 - Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
AU - the KM3NeT Collaboration
AU - Aiello, S.
AU - Albert, A.
AU - Alshamsi, M.
AU - Alves Garre, S.
AU - Aly, Z.
AU - Ambrosone, A.
AU - Ameli, F.
AU - Andre, M.
AU - Androulakis, G.
AU - Anghinolfi, M.
AU - Anguita, M.
AU - Anton, G.
AU - Ardid, M.
AU - Ardid, S.
AU - Aublin, J.
AU - Bagatelas, C.
AU - Baret, B.
AU - Basegmez du Pree, S.
AU - Bendahman, M.
AU - Benfenati, F.
AU - Berbee, E.
AU - van den Berg, A. M.
AU - Bertin, V.
AU - Biagi, S.
AU - Bissinger, M.
AU - Boettcher, M.
AU - Bou Cabo, M.
AU - Boumaaza, J.
AU - Bouta, M.
AU - Bouwhuis, M.
AU - Bozza, C.
AU - Brânzaş, H.
AU - Bretaudeau, F.
AU - Bruijn, R.
AU - Brunner, J.
AU - Bruno, R.
AU - Buis, E.
AU - Buompane, R.
AU - Busto, J.
AU - Caiffi, B.
AU - Calvo, D.
AU - Campion, S.
AU - Capone, A.
AU - Carretero, V.
AU - Castaldi, P.
AU - Celli, S.
AU - Chabab, M.
AU - Chau, N.
AU - Chen, A.
AU - Razzaque, S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light sterile neutrino in a 3+1 model is presented. After three years of data taking, ORCA will be able to probe the active-sterile mixing angles θ14, θ24, θ34 and the effective angle θμe, over a broad range of mass squared difference ∆m412 ∼ [10−5, 10] eV2, allowing to test the eV-mass sterile neutrino hypothesis as the origin of short baseline anomalies, as well as probing the hypothesis of a very light sterile neutrino, not yet constrained by cosmology. ORCA will be able to explore a relevant fraction of the parameter space not yet reached by present measurements. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
AB - KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light sterile neutrino in a 3+1 model is presented. After three years of data taking, ORCA will be able to probe the active-sterile mixing angles θ14, θ24, θ34 and the effective angle θμe, over a broad range of mass squared difference ∆m412 ∼ [10−5, 10] eV2, allowing to test the eV-mass sterile neutrino hypothesis as the origin of short baseline anomalies, as well as probing the hypothesis of a very light sterile neutrino, not yet constrained by cosmology. ORCA will be able to explore a relevant fraction of the parameter space not yet reached by present measurements. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
KW - Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)
KW - Oscillation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118260731&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180
DO - 10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118260731
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2021
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 10
M1 - 180
ER -