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Search for signatures of sterile neutrinos with Double Chooz

  • T. Abrahão
  • , H. Almazan
  • , J. C. dos Anjos
  • , S. Appel
  • , J. C. Barriere
  • , I. Bekman
  • , T. J.C. Bezerra
  • , L. Bezrukov
  • , E. Blucher
  • , T. Brugière
  • , C. Buck
  • , J. Busenitz
  • , A. Cabrera
  • , M. Cerrada
  • , E. Chauveau
  • , P. Chimenti
  • , O. Corpace
  • , J. V. Dawson
  • , Z. Djurcic
  • , A. Etenko
  • H. Furuta, I. Gil-Botella, A. Givaudan, H. Gomez, L. F.G. Gonzalez, M. C. Goodman, T. Hara, J. Haser, D. Hellwig, L. Heuermann, A. Hourlier, M. Ishitsuka, J. Jochum, C. Jollet, K. Kale, M. Kaneda, M. Karakac, T. Kawasaki, E. Kemp, H. de Kerret, D. Kryn, M. Kuze, T. Lachenmaier, C. E. Lane, T. Lasserre, C. Lastoria, D. Lhuillier, H. P. Lima, M. Lindner, J. M. López-Casta no, J. M. LoSecco, B. Lubsandorzhiev, J. Maeda, C. Mariani, J. Maricic, J. Martino, T. Matsubara, G. Mention, A. Meregaglia, T. Miletic, R. Milincic, A. Minotti, D. Navas-Nicolás, P. Novella, L. Oberauer, M. Obolensky, A. Onillon, A. Oralbaev, C. Palomares, I. M. Pepe, G. Pronost, J. Reichenbacher, B. Reinhold, S. Schönert, S. Schoppmann, L. Scola, R. Sharankova, V. Sibille, V. Sinev, M. Skorokhvatov, P. Soldin, A. Stahl, I. Stancu, L. F.F. Stokes, F. Suekane, S. Sukhotin, T. Sumiyoshi, Y. Sun, C. Veyssiere, B. Viaud, M. Vivier, S. Wagner, C. Wiebusch, G. Yang, F. Yermia
  • Université Paris Diderot
  • Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Technical University of Munich
  • CEA
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • l'institut du thorax
  • University of Sussex
  • Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Chicago
  • Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
  • Physics Dept., University of Alabama
  • University Paris-Sud
  • CIEMAT Energy Department
  • Université de Bordeaux
  • Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"
  • Tohoku University
  • University of Campinas
  • Kobe University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Tokyo University of Science
  • University of Tübingen
  • Kitasato University
  • Drexel University
  • University of Notre Dame
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • University of Hawaii
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • Arcadia University
  • CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris 11
  • Edificio Institutos de Investigación
  • University of Tokyo
  • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • SUNY

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Abstract

We present a search for signatures of neutrino mixing of electron anti-neutrinos with additional hypothetical sterile neutrino flavors using the Double Chooz experiment. The search is based on data from 5 years of operation of Double Chooz, including 2 years in the two-detector configuration. The analysis is based on a profile likelihood, i.e. comparing the data to the model prediction of disappearance in a data-to-data comparison of the two respective detectors. The analysis is optimized for a model of three active and one sterile neutrino. It is sensitive in the typical mass range 5×10-3eV2≲Δm412≲3×10-1eV2 for mixing angles down to sin 22 θ14≳ 0.02. No significant disappearance additionally to the conventional disappearance related to θ13 is observed and correspondingly exclusion bounds on the sterile mixing parameter θ14 as a function of Δm412 are obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Article number775
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume81
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2021

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