Speaker
Dr
Jelena Maricic
(University of Hawaii)
Description
An intriguing, nearly three-sigma indication of the electron antineutrino
disappearance at less than 100 m distance from the nuclear reactor core has recently
been revealed. The effect was named a reactor antineutrino anomaly (RAA). The
disappearance may be due to reactor neutrinos oscillating into another neutrino
type. We plan to test the RAA with a complementary technique: deploy a massive 76 kCi electron antineutrino source (cerium-144 and praseodymium-144)
in the veto region of Kamioka Liquid
Scintillator Antineutrino Detector (KamLAND), 1 kiloton size detector. The project is called CeLAND. It will
search for the sterile neutrino oscillation in 3-16 m range and probe the majority
of the oscillation phase space suggested by the RAA with 95% confidence level. The status and prospects of the experiment will be presented.
Primary author
Dr
Jelena Maricic
(University of Hawaii)
