Search for new physics and technological advancement from neutrino experiments at the high intensity frontier. A cooperative Europe US Brazil Effort.
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
SENSE promotes the collaboration among European, American and Brazilian researchers involved in the most important research projects in the field of neutrino physics. The observation of neutrino oscillations is the first direct evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model and their existence can have cosmological implications. Are neutrinos partly responsible for the existence of our matter dominated Universe for example? The current experimental landscape established a picture consistent with the mixing of three neutrino flavours with three mass eigenstates and small mass differences. However, recent experimental anomalies suggest the existence of sterile neutrino states (which do not interact with ordinary matter apart from neutrinos) and could help to explain how neutrinos get their mass as well as being candidates for dark matter and other complex theoretical particles. Neutrino oscillations offer a gateway into other possible deviations from the Standard Model. In [articular in the lepton sector including Charged Lepton Flavour Violation.
The FNAL Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program is based on three almost identical liquid argon Time Projection Chambers located along the Booster Neutrino Beam offers a compelling opportunity to resolve the anomalies and perform the most sensitive search for sterile neutrinos at the eV mass scale through appearance and disappearance oscillation searches. MicroBooNE, ICARUS and SBND will search for the oscillation signal by comparing the neutrino event spectra measured at different distances from the source. The FNAL SBN program is a major step towards the global effort of the neutrino physics community in realising the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) which will provide fundamental contribution to the determination of neutrino mass ordering, measurement of CP violation (which if non zero could mean neutrinos are at least in part responsible for the matter anti-matter asymmetry of the Universe), precision tests of the three-flavour oscillation paradigm using long-baseline flavour transition, search for nucleon decay and study of the burst of neutrinos from core-collapse supernova in the framework of multi-messenger astronomy. SENSE researchers have provided major contributions to the SBN and DUNE projects and will take leading roles in the commissioning of the detectors, data taking and analysis. These endeavours foster the development of cutting-edge technologies with spin-offs outside particle physics.
The FNAL Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program is based on three almost identical liquid argon Time Projection Chambers located along the Booster Neutrino Beam offers a compelling opportunity to resolve the anomalies and perform the most sensitive search for sterile neutrinos at the eV mass scale through appearance and disappearance oscillation searches. MicroBooNE, ICARUS and SBND will search for the oscillation signal by comparing the neutrino event spectra measured at different distances from the source. The FNAL SBN program is a major step towards the global effort of the neutrino physics community in realising the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) which will provide fundamental contribution to the determination of neutrino mass ordering, measurement of CP violation (which if non zero could mean neutrinos are at least in part responsible for the matter anti-matter asymmetry of the Universe), precision tests of the three-flavour oscillation paradigm using long-baseline flavour transition, search for nucleon decay and study of the burst of neutrinos from core-collapse supernova in the framework of multi-messenger astronomy. SENSE researchers have provided major contributions to the SBN and DUNE projects and will take leading roles in the commissioning of the detectors, data taking and analysis. These endeavours foster the development of cutting-edge technologies with spin-offs outside particle physics.
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ORCID iD |
| Melissa Uchida (Principal Investigator) |