Review of Low Energy Neutrinos
arXiv:hep-ph/0702142 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/65/1/012002
Abstract
Some issues regarding low energy neutrinos are reviewed. We focus on three aspects i)We show that by employing very low energy (a few keV) electron neutrinos, neutrino disappearance oscillations can be investigated by detecting recoiling electrons with low threshold spherical gaseous TPC's. In such an experiment, which is sensitive to the small mixing angle theta13, the novel feature is that the oscillation length is so small that the full oscillation takes place inside the detector. Thus one can determine accurately all the oscillation parameters and, in particular, measure or set a good limit on theta13. ii) Low threshold gaseous TPC detectors can also be used in detecting nuclear recoils by exploiting the neutral current interaction. Thus these robust and stable detectors can be employed in supernova neutrino detection. iii) The lepton violating neutrinoless double decay is investigated focusing on how the absolute neutrino mass can be extracted from the data
arXiv comment11 pages, 9 figures, Work presented in the Third Symposium on Large TPC's for Low Energy Rare Event Detection, Paris, Dec. 11-12, 2006 and NUMMY07 ENTApP Network Meeting, Durham, Jan. 10-12, 2007
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