Prospects for Heavy Neutral Lepton Searches at Short and Medium Baseline Reactor Experiments

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العنوان: Prospects for Heavy Neutral Lepton Searches at Short and Medium Baseline Reactor Experiments
المؤلفون: van Remortel, N., Molla, M. Colomer, Clerbeaux, B., De Roeck, A., Drewes, M., Keloth, R., Sfar, H., Vercaemer, S., Verstraeten, M.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
الوصف: Heavy neutrinos with masses in the MeV range can in principle simultaneously explain the light neutrino masses and the origin of baryonic matter in the universe. The strongest constraints on their properties come from their potential impact on the formation of light elements in the early universe. Since these constraints rely on assumptions about the cosmic history, independent checks in the laboratory are highly desirable. In this paper, we discuss the opportunity to search for heavy neutrinos within the MeV mass range in short and medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments, using the SoLid, JUNO and TAO experiments as examples. This kind of experiments can give the currently strongest upper bound on the mixing between the light electron neutrinos and the heavy neutrino in the 2-9 MeV mass range.
Comment: submitted to JHEP
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04662Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2403.04662
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv