Neutrino physics with the PTOLEMY project: Active neutrino properties and the light sterile case

M. G. Betti; M. Biasotti; A. Boscá; F. Calle; N. Canci; G. Cavoto; C. Chang; A. G. Cocco; A. P. Colijn; J. Conrad; N. D'Ambrosio; N. De Groot; P. F. De Salas; M. Faverzani; A. Ferella; E. Ferri; P. Garcia-Abia; I. García-Cortés; G. Garcia Gomez-Tejedor; S. Gariazzo; F. Gatti; C. Gentile; A. Giachero; J. E. Gudmundsson; Y. Hochberg; Y. Kahn; A. Kievsky; M. Lisanti; C. Mancini-Terracciano; G. Mangano; L. E. Marcucci; C. Mariani; J. Martínez; M. Messina; A. Molinero-Vela; E. Monticone; A. Moroño; A. Nucciotti; F. Pandolfi; S. Parlati; S. Pastor; J. Pedrós; C. Pérez De Los Heros; O. Pisanti; A. D. Polosa; A. Puiu; I. Rago; Y. Raitses; M. Rajteri; N. Rossi; I. Rucandio; R. Santorelli; K. Schaeffner; C. G. Tully; M. Viviani; F. Zhao; K. M. Zurek

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Neutrino physics with the PTOLEMY project: Active neutrino properties and the light sterile case

M. G. Betti^*, M. Biasotti, A. Boscá, F. Calle, N. Canci, G. Cavoto, C. Chang, A. G. Cocco, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, N. D'Ambrosio, N. De Groot, P. F. De Salas, M. Faverzani, A. Ferella, E. Ferri, P. Garcia-Abia, I. García-Cortés, G. Garcia Gomez-Tejedor, S. GariazzoF. Gatti, C. Gentile, A. Giachero, J. E. Gudmundsson, Y. Hochberg, Y. Kahn, A. Kievsky, M. Lisanti, C. Mancini-Terracciano, G. Mangano, L. E. Marcucci, C. Mariani, J. Martínez, M. Messina, A. Molinero-Vela, E. Monticone, A. Moroño, A. Nucciotti, F. Pandolfi, S. Parlati, S. Pastor, J. Pedrós, C. Pérez De Los Heros, O. Pisanti, A. D. Polosa, A. Puiu, I. Rago, Y. Raitses, M. Rajteri, N. Rossi, I. Rucandio, R. Santorelli, K. Schaeffner, C. G. Tully, M. Viviani, F. Zhao, K. M. Zurek

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The PTOLEMY project aims to develop a scalable design for a Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) detector, the first of its kind and the only one conceived that can look directly at the image of the Universe encoded in neutrino background produced in the first second after the Big Bang. The scope of the work for the next three years is to complete the conceptual design of this detector and to validate with direct measurements that the non-neutrino backgrounds are below the expected cosmological signal. In this paper we discuss in details the theoretical aspects of the experiment and its physics goals. In particular, we mainly address three issues. First we discuss the sensitivity of PTOLEMY to the standard neutrino mass scale. We then study the perspectives of the experiment to detect the CNB via neutrino capture on tritium as a function of the neutrino mass scale and the energy resolution of the apparatus. Finally, we consider an extra sterile neutrino with mass in the eV range, coupled to the active states via oscillations, which has been advocated in view of neutrino oscillation anomalies. This extra state would contribute to the tritium decay spectrum, and its properties, mass and mixing angle, could be studied by analyzing the features in the beta decay electron spectrum.

Original language	English
Article number	047
Journal	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume	2019
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/07/047
State	Published - 31 Jul 2019

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Betti, M. G., Biasotti, M., Boscá, A., Calle, F., Canci, N., Cavoto, G., Chang, C., Cocco, A. G., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., D'Ambrosio, N., De Groot, N., De Salas, P. F., Faverzani, M., Ferella, A., Ferri, E., Garcia-Abia, P., García-Cortés, I., Gomez-Tejedor, G. G., ... Zurek, K. M. (2019). Neutrino physics with the PTOLEMY project: Active neutrino properties and the light sterile case. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019(7), Article 047. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2019/07/047

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