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most citedLight Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper

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69 papers

hep-ph2026

Testing the statistical compatibility of data sets with a common prior

Pilar Coloma, Michele Maltoni, Thomas Schwetz

The Parameter Goodness-of-fit (PG) test [hep-ph/0304176] offers a simple test statistic to study the compatibility of different data sets within a given theoretical model. In its o…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Clarity through the Neutrino Fog: Constraining New Forces in Dark Matter Detectors

Pablo Blanco-Mas, Pilar Coloma, Gonzalo Herrera +4

The PANDAX-4T and XENONnT experiments present indications of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENS) from B solar neutrinos at 2.6 and 2.7, respectivel…

hep-ph2023

Global constraints on non-standard neutrino interactions with quarks and electrons

Pilar Coloma, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni +2

We derive new constraints on effective four-fermion neutrino non-standard interactions with both quarks and electrons. This is done through the global analysis of neutrino oscillat…

hep-ph2023

New Physics searches using ProtoDUNE and the CERN SPS accelerator

Pilar Coloma, Jacobo López-Pavón, Laura Molina-Bueno +1

The exquisite capabilities of liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers make them ideal to search for weakly interacting particles in Beyond the Standard Model scenarios. Given their l…

hep-ex2022★ 3 cited

Snowmass Neutrino Frontier Report

Patrick Huber, Kate Scholberg, Elizabeth Worcester +56

This report summarizes the current status of neutrino physics and the broad and exciting future prospects identified for the Neutrino Frontier as part of the 2021 Snowmass Process.

hep-ph2022★ 3 cited

Neutrino Frontier Topical Group Report (NF03): Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Pilar Coloma, Lisa W. Koerner, Ian M. Shoemaker +1

This topical group focuses on searches for signals from physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM), both from a theoretical and experimental perspective, including neutrino-related BS…

hep-ph2022★ 5 cited

Right-handed neutrinos and the CDF II anomaly

Mattias Blennow, Pilar Coloma, Enrique Fernández-Martínez +1

We point out that right-handed neutrinos can resolve the tension between the latest CDF II measurement of the -boson mass, , and the standard model. Integrating out the new…

hep-ph2022★ 35 cited

Constraining New Physics with Borexino Phase-II spectral data

Pilar Coloma, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni +2

We present a detailed analysis of the spectral data of Borexino Phase II, with the aim of exploiting its full potential to constrain scenarios beyond the Standard Model. In particu…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications

M. Abdullah, H. Abele, D. Akimov +272

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is large…

hep-ph2022★ 70 cited

Snowmass White Paper: Beyond the Standard Model effects on Neutrino Flavor

C. A. Argüelles, G. Barenboim, M. Bustamante +23

Neutrinos are one of the most promising messengers for signals of new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). On the theoretical side, their elusive nature, combined with their un…

hep-ex2022★ 6 cited

Neutrinos from Stored Muons (nuSTORM)

L. Alvarez Ruso, T. Alves, S. Boyd +9

The 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) (see https://cds.cern.ch/record/2720129 ) recommended that muon beam R\&D should be considered a high-priority…

hep-ph2022

Bounds on new physics with data of the Dresden-II reactor experiment and COHERENT

Pilar Coloma, Ivan Esteban, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia +3

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering was first experimentally established five years ago by the COHERENT experiment using neutrinos from the spallation neutron source at Oa…

hep-ph2022★ 12 cited

New bounds on axion-like particles from MicroBooNE

Pilar Coloma, Pilar Hernández, Salvador Urrea

Neutrino experiments lie at the edge of the intensity frontier and therefore can be exploited to search for new light particles weakly coupled to the visible sector. In this work w…

hep-ph2021★ 53 cited

Statistical significance of the sterile-neutrino hypothesis in the context of reactor and gallium data

Jeffrey M. Berryman, Pilar Coloma, Patrick Huber +2

We evaluate the statistical significance of the 3+1 sterile-neutrino hypothesis using and disappearance data from reactor, solar and gallium radioactive source expe…

astro-ph.HE2021

EuCAPT White Paper: Opportunities and Challenges for Theoretical Astroparticle Physics in the Next Decade

R. Alves Batista, M. A. Amin, G. Barenboim +134

Astroparticle physics is undergoing a profound transformation, due to a series of extraordinary new results, such as the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos with IceCube, the…

hep-ph2021★ 1 cited

New physics from oscillations at the DUNE near detector, and the role of systematic uncertainties

Pilar Coloma, Jacobo López-Pavón, Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz +1

We study the capabilities of the DUNE near detector to probe deviations from unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, the 3+1 sterile formalism and Non-Standard Interactions affect…

hep-ph2021★ 32 cited

Heavy Neutrino searches through Double-Bang Events at Super-Kamiokande, DUNE, and Hyper-Kamiokande

Mack Atkinson, Pilar Coloma, Ivan Martinez-Soler +2

A variety of new physics scenarios allow for neutrinos to up-scatter into a heavy neutral lepton state. For a range of couplings and neutrino energies, the heavy neutrino may trave…

hep-ph2020★ 51 cited

Neutrino Oscillation Constraints on U(1)' Models: from Non-Standard Interactions to Long-Range Forces

Pilar Coloma, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni

We quantify the effect of gauge bosons from a weakly coupled lepton flavor dependent interaction on the matter background in the evolution of solar, atmospheric, reactor an…

hep-ph2020★ 22 cited

Statistical interpretation of sterile neutrino oscillation searches at reactors

Pilar Coloma, Patrick Huber, Thomas Schwetz

A considerable experimental effort is currently under way to test the persistent hints for oscillations due to an eV-scale sterile neutrino in the data of various reactor neutrino…

hep-ph2020★ 46 cited

Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects

Pilar Coloma, Ivan Esteban, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia +1

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form f…

hep-ph2020★ 76 cited

GeV-scale neutrinos: interactions with mesons and DUNE sensitivity

Pilar Coloma, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez, Manuel Gonzalez-Lopez +2

The simplest extension of the SM to account for the observed neutrino masses and mixings is the addition of at least two singlet fermions (or right-handed neutrinos). If their mass…

hep-ph2020★ 4 cited

Telling Solar Neutrinos from Solar Axions When You Can't Shut Off the Sun

Pilar Coloma, Patrick Huber, Jonathan M. Link

The XENON1T experiment recently reported an excess of events at low electron recoil energies, which may be due to interactions of solar neutrinos inside the detector via a large ne…

hep-ph2019★ 43 cited

New constraints on Heavy Neutral Leptons from Super-Kamiokande data

Pilar Coloma, Pilar Hernández, Víctor Muñoz +1

Heavy neutral leptons are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model with massive neutrinos. If kinematically accessible, they can be copiously produced from kaon and pion…

hep-ph2019★ 78 cited

Improved global fit to Non-Standard neutrino Interactions using COHERENT energy and timing data

Pilar Coloma, Ivan Esteban, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia +1

We perform a global fit to neutrino oscillation and coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering data, using both timing and energy information from the COHERENT experiment. The results ar…