Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2017
Volume 62, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, January 28–31, 2017; Washington, DC
Session R10: Sterile NeutrinosInvited
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Sponsoring Units: DPF Chair: Alex Himmel, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Room: Roosevelt 2 |
Monday, January 30, 2017 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
R10.00001: Sterile Neutrino Experiments I: Accelerator-based Invited Speaker: Matthew Toups The Standard Model is the theory that describes the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. Despite its great success, there still exists evidence for a wide range of phenomena, which lie outside the framework of the Standard Model. Among these, neutrino flavor oscillations hold great promise to bring insight to the field towards a theory that transcends the Standard Model. The discovery of light, sterile neutrinos that mix with the three active neutrino flavors and modify the standard three-neutrino oscillation probabilities in vacuum and matter would be a major breakthrough for the field and contribute to our overall understanding of neutrino mass and mixing. Current indications for light sterile neutrinos come from a variety of experiments reporting anomalies. The accelerator-based LSND and MiniBooNE experiments, for example, reported an excess of electron-type neutrinos over short baselines, which if interpreted as due to $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ (or $\bar\nu_\mu \rightarrow \bar\nu_e$) oscillations, would imply the existence of a fourth light neutrino mass state. On the other hand, null results from other accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments searching for sterile neutrinos have put constraints on the possible existence of these particles. This talk will review the accelerator-based searches for light, sterile neutrinos as well as the prospects for confirming or refuting their existence in the coming years. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
R10.00002: The search for sterile neutrinos at reactors and underground laboratories Invited Speaker: Thomas Langford From the initial discovery of neutrinos to the observation of neutrino oscillations, unexpected results have lead to deeper understanding of physics. However, as experiments and theoretical predictions have improved, new anomalies have surfaced that could point to beyond the Standard Model physics. Leading hypotheses invoke a new form of matter, sterile neutrinos, as a possible resolution of these outstanding questions. New experimental efforts are underway to probe short-baseline neutrino oscillations with reactors and radioactive sources. This talk will highlight developments in current and next generation experiments and present possible outcomes for the next few years. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, January 30, 2017 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
R10.00003: Sterile neutrinos: fact or fiction? Invited Speaker: Patrick Huber In this talk I will critically review some of the anomalies which in combination could point to the existence of a eV-scale sterile neutrino. Each of these anomalies is well below the 5 sigma level individually and may have explanations besides sterile neutrinos. At the same time each anomaly requires a separate explanation if it is not caused by a sterile neutrino. To further complicate the gpicture, some data sets are in mutual disagreement. [Preview Abstract] |
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