Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Abstract

Series of short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments provided unexpected results, and now they are called short baseline anomalies, and all indicates an existence of sterile neutrinos with a mass scale around 1~eV. The signals of short baseline anomalies are reported from 4 different classes of experiments. However, at this moment, there is no convincing theoretical model to explain such sterile neutrinos, and a single experiment to confirm 1~eV sterile neutrinos may be challenging. In this short note, we describe classes of short baseline neutrino oscillation experiments and their goals.

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, presented at "NuPhys2013 - prospects in neutrino physics", Institute of Physics, London, UK, Dec. 19-20, 2013