Speaker
Matteo Agostini
(TUM)
Description
The SOX project aims at conclusively probing the existence of eV-scale sterile neutrinos, which is hinted at by experiments with neutrinos from accelerators (LSND and MiniBoone), radioactive sources (Gallex and SAGE), and reactors (reactor-anomaly). An anti-neutrino source (Ce-144, 100 kCi) will be placed underneath the Borexino detector to perform a background-free measurement of the anti-neutrino interaction rate. The sought-after signature of sterile neutrinos is an oscillatory pattern in the rate as a function of the neutrino energy and travelled distance. The data taking will start in the fall of 2015 and the final results will be extracted after 1.5 years of operations.
