A Sterile Neutrino Search with Kaon Decay-at-rest

Abstract

Monoenergetic muon neutrinos (235.5 MeV) from positive kaon decay-at-rest are considered as a source for an electron neutrino appearance search. In combination with a liquid argon time projection chamber based detector, such a source could provide discovery-level sensitivity to the neutrino oscillation parameter space indicative of a sterile neutrino. Current and future intense >3 GeV kinetic energy proton facilities around the world can be employed for this experimental concept.

6 pages, 6 figures

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• First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions
• Dark Matter Searches for Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising from Stopped Meson Decay in the Sun
• Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Oscillations using DUNE Near Detector
• Searching for sterile neutrinos from $\pi$ and $K$ decays
• Directional Searches at DUNE for Sub-GeV Monoenergetic Neutrinos Arising from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun
• Modeling quasielastic interactions of monoenergetic kaon decay-at-rest neutrinos
• Cross Section Measurements with Monoenergetic Muon Neutrinos
• A Decisive Disappearance Search at High-$\Delta m^2$ with Monoenergetic Muon Neutrinos
• First Measurement of Missing Energy Due to Nuclear Effects in Monoenergetic Neutrino Charged Current Interactions
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• Prospects of Measuring Oscillated Decay-at-Rest Neutrinos at Long Baselines
• The Intermediate Neutrino Program
• Charged lepton mixing via heavy sterile neutrinos
• Searching for solar KDAR with DUNE