Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session Z14: Neutrinos IV
3:30 PM–5:18 PM,
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Plaza Court 3
Sponsoring
Unit:
DPF
Chair: Young-Kee Kim
Abstract: Z14.00009 : Searching for Sterile Neutrinos with the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills Detector at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center*
5:06 PM–5:18 PM
View Presentation Abstract
Presenter:
Richard G Van de Water
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Author:
Richard G Van de Water
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Collaboration:
Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills Experiment
The MiniBooNE and LSND experiments have shown compelling evidence for sterile neutrinos in short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. In these experiments, an excess of electron neutrino appearance was observed from a pure muon neutrino beam, and if these data are interpreted as sterile neutrino oscillations, the mass scale is ~1 eV2. Analogous muon neutrino disappearance measurements have shown no anomalies, but these experiments have been performed at a different energy scale compared to LSND and MiniBooNE. Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) is a new experiment to search for muon neutrino disappearance at the LSND energy scale. CCM will use a 10-ton liquid argon scintillation detector to leverage the enhanced cross section from coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. CCM will operate at the Lujan Center at LANSCE which is a 100-kW stopped pion source that delivers an 800-MeV proton beam onto a tungsten target at 20 Hz with a pulse width of 290 ns. This fast pulsing is crucial for isolating the monoenergetic muon neutrino in time and reducing neutron backgrounds. In this talk, I will describe the current state of sterile neutrinos, describe the CCM detector and the Lujan Center, and show first results from our successful Fall 2018 commissioning run.
*LANL LDRD-DR funding.
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