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Confronting solutions of the Gallium Anomaly with reactor rate data

Authors :
Giunti, Carlo
Ternes, Christoph A.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Recently, several models have been suggested to reduce the tension between Gallium and reactor antineutrino spectral ratio data which is found in the framework of 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing. Among these models, we consider the extensions of 3+1 mixing with a finite wavepacket size, or the decay of the heaviest neutrino $\nu_4$, or the possibility to have a broad $\nu_4$ mass distribution. We consider the reactor antineutrino rate data and we show that these models cannot liminate the tension between Gallium and reactor rate data that is found in the 3+1 neutrino mixing framework. Indeed, we show that the parameter goodness of fit remains small. We consider also a model which explains the Gallium Anomaly with non-standard decoherence in the framework of three-neutrino mixing. We find that it is compatible with the reactor rate data.<br />Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2312.00565
Document Type :
Working Paper