The 21st International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators (NUFACT2019)

Aug 25 – 31, 2019
The Grand Hotel Daegu
Asia/Seoul timezone

Sterile neutrino searches with the ICARUS detector

Aug 30, 2019, 2:30 PM
30m
Plaza Hall (5F) (The Grand Hotel Daegu)

Plaza Hall (5F)

The Grand Hotel Daegu

Oral Presentation

Speaker

Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

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.

Working Group WG1 : Neutrino Oscillation Physics

Primary author

Alessandro Menegolli (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))

Presentation materials

 yu-icarus-nufact2019-083019-final.pdf yu-icarus-nufact2019-083019-final.pptx