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[en] There is accumulating evidence for a difference between neutrino and antineutrino oscillations at the ∼1 eV2 scale. The MiniBooNE experiment observes an unexplained excess of electron-like events at low energies in neutrino mode, which may be due, for example, to either a neutral current radiative interaction, sterile neutrino decay, or to neutrino oscillations involving sterile neutrinos and which may be related to the LSND signal. No excess of electron-like events (-0.5 ± 7.8 ± 8.7), however, is observed so far at low energies in antineutrino mode. Furthermore, global 3+1 and 3+2 sterile neutrino fits to the world neutrino and antineutrino data suggest a difference between neutrinos and antineutrinos with significant (sin2 2θμμ ∼ 35%) (bar ν)μ disappearance. In order to test whether the low-energy excess is due to neutrino oscillations and whether there is a difference between νμ and (bar ν)μ disappearance, we propose building a second MiniBooNE detector at (or moving the existing MiniBooNE detector to) a distance of ∼200 m from the Booster Neutrino Beam (BNB) production target. With identical detectors at different distances, most of the systematic errors will cancel when taking a ratio of events in the two detectors, as the neutrino flux varies as 1/r2 to a calculable approximation. This will allow sensitive tests of oscillations for both νe and (bar ν) appearance and νμ and (bar ν)μ disappearance. Furthermore, a comparison between oscillations in neutrino mode and antineutrino mode will allow a sensitive search for CP and CPT violation in the lepton sector at short baseline (Δm2 > 0.1 eV2). Finally, by comparing the rates for a neutral current (NC) reaction, such as NC π0 scattering or NC elastic scattering, a direct search for sterile neutrinos will be made. The initial amount of running time requested for the near detector will be a total of ∼2E20 POT divided between neutrino mode and antineutrino mode, which will provide statistics comparable to what has already been collected in the far detector. A thorough understanding of this short-baseline physics will be of great importance to future long-baseline oscillation experiments.
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12 Oct 2009; 43 p; AC02-76CH03000; Available from http://lss.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/find_paper.pl?proposal-1002.pdf; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/993870-7kD4dC/; doi 10.2172/993870
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