The SOX experiment in the neutrino physics

L. Di Noto (1) , M. Agostini (2) , K. Althenmüller (2) , G. Bellini (3) , J. Benziger (4) , N. Berton (5) , D. Bick (6) , G. Bonfini (7) , D. Bravo-Berguño (8) , B. Caccianiga (3) , Laura Cadonati (9) , F. Calaprice (4) , A. Caminata (1) , P. Cavalcante (7) , A. Chavarria (4) , A. Chepurnov (10) , M. Cribier (5, 11) , D. Dangelo (3) , S. Davini (12) , A. Derbin (13) , M. Durero (5) , A. Empl (12) , A. Etenko (14) , S. Farinon (1) , V. Fischer (5) , K. Fomenko (15) , Davide Franco (11) , F. Gabriele (7) , J. Gaffiot (5) , C. Galbiati (4) , S. Gazzana (14) , C. Ghiano (1) , Marco Giammarchi (3) , Marianne Göger-Neff (2) , A. M. Goretti (7) , L. Grandi (1) , M. Gromov (10) , Caren Hagner (6) , Th. Houdy (5, 11) , E. V. Hungerford (12) , Aldo Ianni (14) , Andrea Ianni (4) , N. Jonquères (16) , V. V. Kobychev (17) , D. Korablev (15) , G. Korga (12) , D. Kryn (11) , Thierry Lasserre (5, 11) , M. Laubenstein (14) , T. Lehnert (2) , T. Lewke (2) , E. Litvinovich (14) , F. Lombardi (14) , Paolo Lombardi (3) , Livia Ludhova (3) , G. Lukyanchenko (14) , I. N. Machulin (14) , S. Manecki (8) , W. Maneschg (18) , S. Marcocci (19) , J. Maricic (20) , Q. Meindl (2) , Guillaume Mention (5) , Emanuela Meroni (3) , Michael R. Meyer (6) , Lino Miramonti (3) , M. Misiaszek (21) , M. Montuschi (14) , P. Mosteiro (4) , R. Musenich (1) , V. N. Muratova (13) , Lothar Oberauer (2) , Michel Obolensky (11) , Fausto Ortica (22) , K. Otis (9) , Marco Pallavicini (1) , L. Papp (2) , L. Perasso (1) , S. Perasso (1) , A. Pocar (9) , Gioacchino Ranucci (3) , A. Razeto (14) , A. Re (3) , Aldo Romani (22) , N. Rossi (14) , R. Saldanha (4) , C. Salvo (1) , Stefan Schönert (2) , L. Scola (5) , H. Simgen (18) , M. D. Skorokhvatov (14) , O. Yu. Smirnov (15) , A. Sotnikov (15) , S. Sukhotin (14) , Y. Suvorov (23) , R. Tartaglia (14) , G. Testera (1) , C. Veyssiere (5) , M. Vivier (5) , R. B. Vogelaar (8) , F. Von Feilitzsch (2) , Haimin Wang (23) , J. Winter (2) , M. Wójcik (21) , A. Wright (4) , Michael Wurm (6, 24) , O. Zaimidoroga (15) , Sandra Zavatarelli (1) , K. Zuber (25) , G. Zuzel (21)

1 UniGe - Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa
2 Department de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears
3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi e INFN
4 Princeton University
5 CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
6 ISAE-SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
7 LNGS - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
8 Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
9 Physics Department, University of Massachusetts
10 Lomonosov Moscow State University Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
11 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
12 Department of Physics, University of Houston
13 StPetersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
14 Kurchatov Institute
15 JINR - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
16 BCCR - Bureau de Conception Calculs et Réalisations
17 Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research
18 Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik
19 Gran Sasso Science Institute, INFN
20 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii
21 M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University
22 Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Universita degli Studi e INFN
23 Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles
24 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
25 Department of Physics, Technische Universitat Dresden

SOX (Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino) is a new experiment that takes place at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and it exploits the Borexino detector to study the neutrino oscillations at short distance. In different phases, by using two artificial sources ⁵¹Cr and ¹⁴⁴Ce-¹⁴⁴Pr, neutrino and antineutrino fluxes of measured intensity will be detected by Borexino in order to observe possible neutrino oscillations in the sterile state. In this paper an overview of the experiment is given and one of the two calorimeters that will be used to measure the source activity is described. At the end the expected sensitivity to determine the neutrino sterile mass is shown.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

L. Di Noto, M. Agostini, K. Althenmüller, G. Bellini, J. Benziger, et al.. The SOX experiment in the neutrino physics. Il Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. C, 2015, 38, ⟨10.1393/ncc/i2015-15036-y⟩. ⟨hal-03785772⟩