Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos: Decay at Rest Experiments

Abstract

In the standard model of the elementary particles, the number of neutrino flavor is three. However, there have been indications of existence of 4th neutrino, called sterile neutrino, in some neutrino oscillation related experiments. A number of experiments are planned to test whether such indications are true or not. Among them, experiments which use neutrinos from pi+, K+, mu+ decay at rest (DAR) are promising because the energy spectra of neutrinos are very well known and clean oscillation measurements are possible. In this proceedings, properties of such DAR neutrinos and LSND, JSNS2, OscSNS and KPipe experiments are briefly introduced.

Talk presented at NuPhys2015 (London, 18 December 2015). 10 pages, LaTeX, 9 eps figures. The version to be submitted to NPB. An reference was added, some minor corrections were made. Contents did not change