Abstract

KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light sterile neutrino in a 3+1 model is presented. After three years of data taking, ORCA will be able to probe the active-sterile mixing angles θ14, θ24, θ34 and the effective angle θμe, over a broad range of mass squared difference ∆m412 ∼ [10−5, 10] eV2, allowing to test the eV-mass sterile neutrino hypothesis as the origin of short baseline anomalies, as well as probing the hypothesis of a very light sterile neutrino, not yet constrained by cosmology. ORCA will be able to explore a relevant fraction of the parameter space not yet reached by present measurements.

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Title
Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
Author
Aiello, S 1 ; Albert, A 2 ; Alshamsi, M 3 ; Alves, Garre S 4 ; Aly, Z 5 ; Ambrosone, A 6 ; Ameli, F 7 ; Andre, M 8 ; Androulakis, G 9 ; Anghinolfi, M 10 ; Anguita, M 11 ; Anton, G 12 ; Ardid, M 13 ; Ardid, S 13 ; Aublin, J 3 ; Bagatelas, C 9 ; Baret, B 3 ; Basegmez du Pree S 14 ; Bendahman, M 15 ; Benfenati, F 16 ; Berbee, E 14 ; van den Berg A M 17 ; Bertin, V 5 ; Biagi, S 18 ; Bissinger, M 12 ; Boettcher, M 19 ; Bou Cabo M 20 ; Boumaaza, J 21 ; Bouta, M 22 ; Bouwhuis, M 14 ; Bozza, C 23 ; Brânzaş, H 24 ; Bretaudeau, F 25 ; Bruijn, R 26 ; Brunner, J 5 ; Bruno, R 1 ; Buis, E 27 ; Buompane, R 28 ; Busto, J 5 ; Caiffi, B 10 ; Calvo, D 4 ; Campion, S 29 ; Capone, A 29 ; Carretero, V 4 ; Castaldi, P 30 ; Celli, S 29 ; Chabab, M 31 ; Chau, N 3 ; Chen, A 32 ; Cherubini, S 33 ; Chiarella, V 34 ; Chiarusi, T 35 ; Circella, M 36 ; Cocimano, R 18 ; Coelho J A B 3 ; Coleiro, A 3 ; Colomer Molla M 37 ; Coniglione, R 18 ; Coyle, P 5 ; Creusot, A 3 ; Cruz, A 38 ; Cuttone, G 18 ; Dallier, R 25 ; De, Martino B 5 ; De, Palma M 39 ; Palma, Di, I 29 ; Díaz, A F 11 ; Diego-Tortosa, D 13 ; Distefano, C 18 ; Domi, A 40   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Donzaud, C 3 ; Dornic, D 5 ; Dörr, M 41 ; Drouhin, D 2 ; Eberl, T 12 ; Eddyamoui, A 21 ; van Eeden T 14 ; van Eijk D 14 ; El Bojaddaini I 22 ; Elsaesser, D 41 ; Enzenhöfer, A 5 ; Espinosa, V 13 ; Fermani, P 29 ; Ferrara, G 33 ; Filipović, M D 42 ; Filippini, F 16 ; Fusco, L A 5 ; Gal, T 12 ; García, Méndez J 13 ; Garcia, Soto A 14 ; Garufi, F 6 ; Gatelet, Y 3 ; Geißelbrecht, N 12 ; Gialanella, L 28 ; Giorgio, E 18 ; Gozzini, S R 29 ; Gracia, R 14 ; Graf, K 12 ; Grella, G 43 ; Guderian, D 44 ; Guidi, C 40 ; Gutiérrez, M 45 ; Haefner, J 12 ; Hallmann, S 12 ; Hamdaoui, H 21 ; van Haren H 46 ; Heijboer, A 14 ; Hekalo, A 41 ; Hennig, L 12 ; Hernández-Rey, J J 4 ; Hofestädt, J 12 ; Huang, F 5 ; Idrissi, Ibnsalih W 28 ; Illuminati, G 47 ; James, C W 38 ; de, Jong M 14 ; de, Jong P 26 ; Jung, B J 14 ; Kadler, M 41 ; Kalaczyński, P 48 ; Kalekin, O 12 ; Katz, U F 12 ; Khan, Chowdhury N, R 4 ; Kistauri, G 49 ; van der Knaap F 27 ; Kooijman, P 50 ; Kouchner, A 51 ; Kulikovskiy, V 10 ; Lahmann, R 12 ; Lamoureux, M 3 ; Lara, G 20 ; Larosa, G 18 ; Lastoria, C 5 ; Le, Breton R 3 ; Le Stum S 5 ; Leonardi, O 18 ; Leone, F 33 ; Leonora, E 1 ; Lessing, N 12 ; Levi, G 16 ; Lincetto, M 5 ; Lindsey, Clark M 3 ; Lipreau, T 25 ; Longhitano, F 1 ; Lopez-Coto, D 45 ; Lygda, A 9 ; Maderer, L 3 ; Mańczak, J 4 ; Mannheim, K 41 ; Margiotta, A 16 ; Marinelli, A 52 ; Markou, C 9 ; Martin, L 25 ; Martínez-Mora, J A 13 ; Martini, A 34 ; Marzaioli, F 28 ; Mastroianni, S 52 ; Melis, K W 14 ; Miele, G 6 ; Migliozzi, P 52 ; Migneco, E 18 ; Mijakowski, P 48 ; Miranda, L S 53 ; Mollo, C M 52 ; Moser, M 12 ; Moussa, A 22 ; Muller, R 14 ; Musumeci, M 18 ; Nauta, L 14 ; Navas, S 45 ; Nicolau, C A 7 ; Nkosi, B 32 ; Fearraigh, B Ó 26 ; O’Sullivan M 38 ; Organokov, M 54 ; Orlando, A 18 ; Palacios, González J 4 ; Papalashvili, G 49 ; Papaleo, R 18 ; Pastore, C 36 ; Păun, A M 24 ; Păvălaş, G E 24 ; Pellegrino, C 55 ; Peña, Martínez S 5 ; Perrin-Terrin, M 5 ; Pestel, V 14 ; Piattelli, P 18 ; Pieterse, C 4 ; Pisanti, O 6 ; Poirè, C 13 ; Pontoriere, V 52 ; Popa, V 24 ; Pradier, T 54 ; Probst, I 12 ; Pühlhofer, G 56 ; Pulvirenti, S 18 ; Randazzo, N 1 ; Razzaque, S 53 ; Real, D 4 ; Reck, S 12 ; Riccobene, G 18 ; Romanov, A 40 ; Rovelli, A 18 ; Salesa, Greus F 4 ; Samtleben D F E 57 ; Sánchez, Losa A 36 ; Sanguineti, M 40 ; Santangelo, A 56 ; Santonocito, D 18 ; Sapienza, P 18 ; Schnabel, J 12 ; Schneider, M F 12 ; Schumann, J 12 ; Schutte, H M 19 ; Seneca, J 14 ; Sgura, I 36 ; Shanidze, R 58 ; Sharma, A 59 ; Sinopoulou, A 9 ; Spisso, B 60 ; Spurio, M 16 ; Stavropoulos, D 9 ; Stellacci, S M 60 ; Taiuti, M 40 ; Tatone, F 36 ; Tayalati, Y 21 ; Thakore, T 61 ; Thiersen, H 19 ; Tingay, S 38 ; Tsagkli, S 9 ; Tsourapis, V 9 ; Tzamariudaki, E 9 ; Tzanetatos, D 9 ; Van Elewyck V 51 ; Vasileiadis, G 62 ; Versari, F 16 ; Vivolo, D 28 ; de, Wasseige G 3 ; Wilms, J 63 ; Wojaczyński, R 48 ; de, Wolf E 26 ; Yousfi, T 22 ; Zavatarelli, S 10 ; Zegarelli, A 29 ; Zito, D 18 ; Zornoza, J D 4 ; Zúñiga, J 4 ; Zywucka, N 19 

1  INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy (GRID:grid.470198.3) (ISNI:0000 0004 1755 400X) 
2  Université de Strasbourg, Université de Haute Alsace, GRPHE, Colmar, France (GRID:grid.9156.b) (ISNI:0000 0004 0473 5039); Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France (GRID:grid.11843.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2157 9291) 
3  Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France (GRID:grid.508487.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 7885 7602) 
4  IFIC — Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC — Universitat de València), Paterna, Spain (GRID:grid.470047.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2178 9889) 
5  Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France (GRID:grid.470046.1) (ISNI:0000 0004 0452 0652) 
6  Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy (GRID:grid.4691.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 0790 385X); Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Dip. Scienze Fisiche “E. Pancini”, Napoli, Italy (GRID:grid.4691.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 0790 385X) 
7  INFN, Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy (GRID:grid.470218.8) 
8  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Laboratori d’Aplicacions Bioacústiques, Centre Tecnològic de Vilanova i la Geltrú, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain (GRID:grid.6835.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 028X) 
9  NCSR Demokritos, Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Athens, Greece (GRID:grid.450262.7) 
10  INFN, Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy (GRID:grid.470205.4) 
11  University of Granada, Dept. of Computer Architecture and Technology/CITIC, Granada, Spain (GRID:grid.4489.1) (ISNI:0000000121678994) 
12  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erlangen, Germany (GRID:grid.5330.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2107 3311) 
13  Universitat Politècnica de València, Instituto de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada de las Zonas Costeras, Gandia, Spain (GRID:grid.157927.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 1770 5832) 
14  Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands (GRID:grid.420012.5) (ISNI:0000 0004 0646 2193) 
15  Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France (GRID:grid.508487.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 7885 7602); Uiversity Mohammed V in Rabat, Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco (GRID:grid.31143.34) (ISNI:0000 0001 2168 4024) 
16  INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (GRID:grid.470193.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 8343 7610); Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Bologna, Italy (GRID:grid.6292.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 1757 1758) 
17  KVI-CART University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands (GRID:grid.4830.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 0407 1981) 
18  INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy (GRID:grid.466880.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 1757 4895) 
19  North-West University, Centre for Space Research, Potchefstroom, South Africa (GRID:grid.25881.36) (ISNI:0000 0000 9769 2525) 
20  Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Unidad Mixta IEO-UPV, Gandia, Spain (GRID:grid.410389.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 0943 6642) 
21  Uiversity Mohammed V in Rabat, Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco (GRID:grid.31143.34) (ISNI:0000 0001 2168 4024) 
22  University Mohammed I, Faculty of Sciences, BV Mohammed VI, Oujda, Morocco (GRID:grid.410890.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 1772 8348) 
23  Università di Salerno e INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Dipartimento di Matematica, Fisciano, Italy (GRID:grid.11780.3f) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0335) 
24  ISS, Măgurele, Romania (GRID:grid.450283.8) 
25  Subatech, IMT Atlantique, IN2P3-CNRS, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France (GRID:grid.463940.c) (ISNI:0000 0001 0475 7658) 
26  Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands (GRID:grid.420012.5) (ISNI:0000 0004 0646 2193); University of Amsterdam, Institute of Physics/IHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands (GRID:grid.7177.6) (ISNI:0000000084992262) 
27  TNO, Technical Sciences, Delft, Netherlands (GRID:grid.4858.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 0208 7216) 
28  Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy (GRID:grid.4691.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 0790 385X); Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Caserta, Italy (GRID:grid.9841.4) (ISNI:0000 0001 2200 8888) 
29  Università La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma, Italy (GRID:grid.7841.a); INFN, Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy (GRID:grid.470218.8) 
30  INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (GRID:grid.470193.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 8343 7610); Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Energia Elettrica e dell’Informazione “Guglielmo Marconi”, Cesena, Italia (GRID:grid.6292.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 1757 1758) 
31  Cadi Ayyad University, Physics Department, Faculty of Science Semlalia, Marrakech, Morocco (GRID:grid.411840.8) (ISNI:0000 0001 0664 9298) 
32  University of the Witwatersrand, School of Physics, Johannesburg, Wits, South Africa (GRID:grid.11951.3d) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 1135) 
33  INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy (GRID:grid.466880.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 1757 4895); Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Catania, Italy (GRID:grid.8158.4) (ISNI:0000 0004 1757 1969) 
34  INFN, LNF, Frascati, Italy (GRID:grid.463190.9) (ISNI:0000 0004 0648 0236) 
35  INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (GRID:grid.470193.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 8343 7610) 
36  INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy (GRID:grid.470190.b) 
37  Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France (GRID:grid.508487.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 7885 7602); IFIC — Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC — Universitat de València), Paterna, Spain (GRID:grid.470047.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2178 9889) 
38  Curtin University, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Bentley, Australia (GRID:grid.1032.0) (ISNI:0000 0004 0375 4078) 
39  INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy (GRID:grid.470190.b); University of Bari, Bari, Italy (GRID:grid.7644.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 0120 3326) 
40  INFN, Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy (GRID:grid.470205.4); Università di Genova, Genova, Italy (GRID:grid.5606.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2151 3065) 
41  University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (GRID:grid.8379.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1958 8658) 
42  Western Sydney University, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Penrith, Australia (GRID:grid.1029.a) (ISNI:0000 0000 9939 5719) 
43  Università di Salerno e INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Dipartimento di Fisica, Fisciano, Italy (GRID:grid.11780.3f) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0335) 
44  University of Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany (GRID:grid.5949.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 2172 9288) 
45  University of Granada, Dpto. de Física Teórica y del Cosmos & C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain (GRID:grid.4489.1) (ISNI:0000000121678994) 
46  NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), Texel, the Netherlands (GRID:grid.10914.3d) (ISNI:0000 0001 2227 4609) 
47  INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (GRID:grid.470193.8) (ISNI:0000 0004 8343 7610); Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France (GRID:grid.508487.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 7885 7602) 
48  National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland (GRID:grid.450295.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 0941 0848) 
49  bilisi State University, Department of Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia (GRID:grid.470047.0) 
50  University of Amsterdam, Institute of Physics/IHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands (GRID:grid.7177.6) (ISNI:0000000084992262); Utrecht University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Utrecht, Netherlands (GRID:grid.5477.1) (ISNI:0000000120346234) 
51  Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France (GRID:grid.508487.6) (ISNI:0000 0004 7885 7602); Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France (GRID:grid.440891.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 1931 4817) 
52  Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy (GRID:grid.4691.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 0790 385X) 
53  University of Johannesburg, Department Physics, Auckland Park, South Africa (GRID:grid.412988.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0109 131X) 
54  Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France (GRID:grid.11843.3f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2157 9291) 
55  Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Bologna, Italy (GRID:grid.6292.f) (ISNI:0000 0004 1757 1758); INFN, CNAF, Bologna, Italy (GRID:grid.470182.8) 
56  Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Tübingen, Germany (GRID:grid.10392.39) (ISNI:0000 0001 2190 1447) 
57  Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands (GRID:grid.420012.5) (ISNI:0000 0004 0646 2193); Leiden University, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden, Netherlands (GRID:grid.5132.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2312 1970) 
58  bilisi State University, Department of Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia (GRID:grid.470190.b) 
59  Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica, Pisa, Italy (GRID:grid.5395.a) (ISNI:0000 0004 1757 3729) 
60  Università di Salerno e INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Dipartimento di Fisica, Fisciano, Italy (GRID:grid.11780.3f) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0335); Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy (GRID:grid.4691.a) (ISNI:0000 0001 0790 385X) 
61  IFIC — Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC — Universitat de València), Paterna, Spain (GRID:grid.470047.0) (ISNI:0000 0001 2178 9889); University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States (GRID:grid.24827.3b) (ISNI:0000 0001 2179 9593) 
62  Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Montpellier Cédex 05, France (GRID:grid.464184.b) (ISNI:0000 0004 0382 470X) 
63  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Remeis Sternwarte, Bamberg, Germany (GRID:grid.5330.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 2107 3311) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Oct 2021
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
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10298479
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Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)180
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2585232437
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