Sterile sector impacting the correlations and degeneracies among mixing parameters at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

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Main Authors: Parveen, Sabila, Masud, Mehedi, Bishai, Mary, Mehta, Poonam
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Published: 2024
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author Parveen, Sabila
Masud, Mehedi
Bishai, Mary
Mehta, Poonam
author_facet Parveen, Sabila
Masud, Mehedi
Bishai, Mary
Mehta, Poonam
contents We investigate the physics potential of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in probing active-sterile mixing. We present analytic expressions for relevant oscillation probabilities for three active and one sterile neutrino of eV-scale mass and highlight essential parameters impacting the oscillation signals at DUNE. We then explore the space of sterile parameters as well as study their correlations among themselves and with parameters appearing in the standard framework ($δ_{13}$ and $θ_{23}$). We perform a combined fit for the near and far detector at DUNE using GLoBES. We consider alternative beam tune (low energy and medium energy) and runtime combinations for constraining the sterile parameter space. We show that charged current and neutral current interactions over the near and far detector at DUNE allow for an improved sensitivity for a wide range of sterile neutrino mass splittings.
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spellingShingle Sterile sector impacting the correlations and degeneracies among mixing parameters at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Parveen, Sabila
Masud, Mehedi
Bishai, Mary
Mehta, Poonam
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
We investigate the physics potential of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in probing active-sterile mixing. We present analytic expressions for relevant oscillation probabilities for three active and one sterile neutrino of eV-scale mass and highlight essential parameters impacting the oscillation signals at DUNE. We then explore the space of sterile parameters as well as study their correlations among themselves and with parameters appearing in the standard framework ($δ_{13}$ and $θ_{23}$). We perform a combined fit for the near and far detector at DUNE using GLoBES. We consider alternative beam tune (low energy and medium energy) and runtime combinations for constraining the sterile parameter space. We show that charged current and neutral current interactions over the near and far detector at DUNE allow for an improved sensitivity for a wide range of sterile neutrino mass splittings.
title Sterile sector impacting the correlations and degeneracies among mixing parameters at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17878