TY - JOUR
T1 - VALOR joint oscillation analysis using multiple LAr-TPCs in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab
AU - Andreopoulos, C.
AU - Barry, C.
AU - Bench, F.
AU - Chappell, A.
AU - Dealtry, T.
AU - Dennis, S.
AU - Escudero, L.
AU - Jones, R.
AU - Grant, N.
AU - Roda, M.
AU - Sgalaberna, D.
AU - Shah, R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2017/9/20
Y1 - 2017/9/20
N2 - Anomalies observed by different experiments, the most significant ones being the ∼3.8 sigma νe appearance in a ∼50 MeV νμ beam from muon decay at rest observed by the LSND experiment and the ∼3.8 sigma νe and appearance in a ∼1 GeV neutrino beam from pion decay in flight observed by MiniBooNE, suggest the existence of sterile neutrinos. The Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab aims to perform a sensitive search for sterile neutrinos by performing analyses of νe appearance and νμ disappearance employing three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LAr-TPCs) at different baselines. The VALOR neutrino fitting group was established within the T2K experiment and has led numerous flagship T2K oscillation analyses, and provided sensitivity and detector optimisation studies for DUNE and Hyper-K. The neutrino oscillation framework developed by this group is able to perform fits of several samples and systematic parameters within different neutrino models and experiments. Thus, VALOR is an ideal environment for the neutrino oscillation fits using multiple LAr-TPC detectors with proper treatment of correlated systematic uncertainties necessary for the SBN analyses.
AB - Anomalies observed by different experiments, the most significant ones being the ∼3.8 sigma νe appearance in a ∼50 MeV νμ beam from muon decay at rest observed by the LSND experiment and the ∼3.8 sigma νe and appearance in a ∼1 GeV neutrino beam from pion decay in flight observed by MiniBooNE, suggest the existence of sterile neutrinos. The Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab aims to perform a sensitive search for sterile neutrinos by performing analyses of νe appearance and νμ disappearance employing three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (LAr-TPCs) at different baselines. The VALOR neutrino fitting group was established within the T2K experiment and has led numerous flagship T2K oscillation analyses, and provided sensitivity and detector optimisation studies for DUNE and Hyper-K. The neutrino oscillation framework developed by this group is able to perform fits of several samples and systematic parameters within different neutrino models and experiments. Thus, VALOR is an ideal environment for the neutrino oscillation fits using multiple LAr-TPC detectors with proper treatment of correlated systematic uncertainties necessary for the SBN analyses.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85032439673
U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012254
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012254
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85032439673
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 888
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012254
T2 - 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Neutrino 2016
Y2 - 4 July 2016 through 9 July 2016
ER -