15–22 mars 2014
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Status of sterile neutrinos and neutrino anomalies

17 mars 2014, 17:40
25m
Ordinary Theory Neutrino experiments

Orateur

Dr Michele Maltoni (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC)

Description

In this talk we will discuss neutrino oscillations involving eV-scale neutrino mass states, in the context of global neutrino oscillation data including short and long-baseline accelerator, reactor, and radioactive source experiments, as well as atmospheric and solar neutrinos. We consider sterile neutrino mass schemes involving one or two mass-squared differences at the eV^2 scale denoted by 3+1, 3+2, and 1+3+1. We discuss the hints for eV-scale neutrinos from nu_e disappearance (reactor and Gallium anomalies) and nu_mu -> nu_e appearance (LSND and MiniBooNE) searches, and we present constraints on sterile neutrino mixing from nu_mu and neutral-current disappearance data.

Auteur principal

Dr Michele Maltoni (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC)

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