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The search for sterile neutrinos with SOX-Borexino

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The aim of the SOX-Borexino project is to verify or falsify the existence of eV-scale sterile neutrinos. The existence of sterile neutrinos is suspected because of several anomalies, which were observed in previous experiments. A ~3.7 PBq electron antineutrino source made of 144Ce will be installed below the Borexino detector at LNGS, Italy, to search for short-baseline oscillations of active-to-sterile neutrinos within the detector volume. Source delivery and beginning of data acquisition is planned for end of 2016, preliminary results are expected already in 2017.

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  1. Physik-Department and Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Garching, 85748, Germany

    K. Altenmüller, M. Agostini, S. Appel, M. Göger-Neff, B. Neumair, L. Oberauer, L. Papp, S. Schönert & F. von Feilitzsch

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi e INFN, Milano, 20133, Italy

    G. Bellini, B. Caccianiga, D. D’Angelo, M. Giammarchi, P. Lombardi, L. Ludhova, E. Meroni, L. Miramonti, G. Ranucci & A. Re

  3. Chemical Engineering Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA

    J. Benziger

  4. Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Centre de Saclay, IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France

    N. Berton, M. Cribier, M. Durero, V. Fischer, J. Gaffiot, Th. Houdy, T. Lasserre, G. Mention, L. Scola, C. Veyssière & M. Vivier

  5. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 22761, Germany

    D. Bick, C. Hagner, M. Kaiser & M. Meyer

  6. INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100, Italy

    G. Bonfini, P. Cavalcante, F. Gabriele, C. Ghiano, Aldo Ianni, M. Laubenstein, F. Lombardi, M. Misiaszek, M. Montuschi, A. Razeto, R. Roncin, N. Rossi, Y. Suvorov & R. Tartaglia

  7. Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061, USA

    D. Bravo, J. Link, R. B. Vogelaar & Z. Yokley

  8. Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA

    F. Calaprice, C. Galbiati, A. Goretti & Andrea Ianni

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    F. Calaprice, S. Davini, I. Drachnev & S. Marcocci

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  12. St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, 188350, Russia

    A. Derbin, V. Muratova, D. Semenov & E. Unzhakov

  13. Department of Physics, Houston, Texas, 77204, USA

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  14. NRC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    A. Etenko, E. Litvinovich, G. Lukyanchenko, I. Machulin, M. Skorokhvatov, S. Sukhotin, Y. Suvorov & M. Toropova

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    T. Lachenmaier

  21. Department of Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01062, Germany

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    Y. Suvorov & H. Wang

  28. Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, 55122, Germany

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Altenmüller, K., Agostini, M., Appel, S. et al. The search for sterile neutrinos with SOX-Borexino. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 79, 1481–1484 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377881610001X

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