3–8 Jun 2019
Bari
Europe/Rome timezone
WIN2019. The 27th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos.

Sterile neutrino searches with the ICARUS detector

5 Jun 2019, 14:53
23m
Sala Europa (Bari)

Sala Europa

Bari

Oral Neutrino Physics Neutrino

Speaker

Christian Farnese (INFN Padova)

Description

The ICARUS collaboration employed the 760-ton T600 detector in a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratories studying neutrino oscillations with the CNGS neutrino beam from CERN, and searching for atmospheric neutrino interactions. ICARUS performed a sensitive search for LSND-like anomalous $\nu_e$ appearance in the CNGS beam, which contributed to the constraints the allowed parameters to a narrow region around 1 eV$^2$, where all the experimental results can be coherently accommodated at 90% C.L. After a significant overhauling at CERN, the T600 detector has now been placed in its experimental hall at Fermilab where installation activities are in progress. It will be soon exposed to the Booster Neutrino Beam to search for sterile neutrino within the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program, devoted to definitively clarify the open questions of the presently observed neutrino anomalies. The proposed contribution will address ICARUS achievements, its status and plans for the new run at Fermilab and the ongoing developments of the analysis tools needed to fulfill its physics program.

Collaboration name

ICARUS

Primary author

Christian Farnese (INFN Padova)

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