Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the European Spallation Source: the SHiNESS experiment
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| author | Soleti, Stefano Roberto Coloma, Pilar Cadenas, Juan Jose Gómez Cabrera, Anatael |
| author_facet | Soleti, Stefano Roberto Coloma, Pilar Cadenas, Juan Jose Gómez Cabrera, Anatael |
| contents | The upcoming European Spallation Source (ESS) will soon provide the most intense neutrino source in the world. We propose the Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the ESS (SHiNESS) experiment, highlighting its unique opportunities to search for the existence of sterile neutrinos across a wide range of scales: anomalous oscillations at short baselines; non-unitarity mixing in the active neutrino sector; or an excess of events with multiple leptons in the final state, produced in the decay of heavy neutrinos. The baseline design of the detector comprises an active volume filled with 42 ton of liquid scintillator, located 25 m far from the ESS beam target. We show that SHiNESS will be able to considerably improve current global limits for the three cases outlined above. Although in this work we focus on new physics in the neutrino sector, the proposed setup may also be used to search for signals from weakly interacting particles in a broader context. |
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| spellingShingle | Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the European Spallation Source: the SHiNESS experiment Soleti, Stefano Roberto Coloma, Pilar Cadenas, Juan Jose Gómez Cabrera, Anatael High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology The upcoming European Spallation Source (ESS) will soon provide the most intense neutrino source in the world. We propose the Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the ESS (SHiNESS) experiment, highlighting its unique opportunities to search for the existence of sterile neutrinos across a wide range of scales: anomalous oscillations at short baselines; non-unitarity mixing in the active neutrino sector; or an excess of events with multiple leptons in the final state, produced in the decay of heavy neutrinos. The baseline design of the detector comprises an active volume filled with 42 ton of liquid scintillator, located 25 m far from the ESS beam target. We show that SHiNESS will be able to considerably improve current global limits for the three cases outlined above. Although in this work we focus on new physics in the neutrino sector, the proposed setup may also be used to search for signals from weakly interacting particles in a broader context. |
| title | Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the European Spallation Source: the SHiNESS experiment |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18509 |