Monte-Carlo sensitivity study for sterile neutrino search with ${}^{144}$Ce - ${}^{144}$Pr source and liquid scintillation detectors of various geometries

Abstract

Expected energy spectra calculations for large volume liquid scintillation detectors to inverse $\beta$-decay for antineutrinos produced by ${}^{144}$Ce -- ${}^{144}$Pr artificial source have been performed. The calculations were carried out through Monte-Carlo method within GEANT4.10 framework and were purposed to search for neutrino oscillation to sterile eigenstate with mass about 1 eV. The analysis of relative sensitivity to oscillation parameters for different detector shapes has been performed.

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures