Project

Search for a sterile neutrino using a short-baseline oscillation experiment at the BR2 research reactor

Code
3F017014
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Applied mathematics in specific fields
    • Elementary particle and high energy physics
    • Nuclear physics
    • Quantum physics
Keywords
Neutrino-oscilations particle physics
 
Project description

The SoLid collaboration, involving the universities of Gent and Antwerpen, will

construct a short baseline reactor neutrino detector at the BR2 reactor of the SCK in

Mol. The objective of this project is to participate in the construction of the detector, the

measurements at the BR2 reactor, and the analysis of the experiment. Ultimately this

research will prove or disprove the existence a new kind of neutrino, the sterile

neutrino.