Carlo Giunti (INFN-TO) - Short-Baseline neutrino oscillation anomalies and light sterile neutrinos

Wednesday 22 Nov 2017, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

Aula A

I review the anomalies found in short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and I discuss their interpretation in the framework of 3+1 neutrino mixing with a sterile neutrino at the eV scale. I present the results of the updated 3+1 global fit including the recent MINOS, IceCube and NEOS data. I discuss the implications for future neutrino oscillations and neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. I also discuss the problem of the 5 MeV bump in the reactor antineutrino spectrum in connection with the reactor antineutrino anomaly and the interpretation of the Daya Bay fuel evolution data.