Probing Neutrino Magnetic Moments at Underground Detectors with Artificial Neutrino Sources
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Neutrino-electron scattering can be used to probe neutrino electromagnetic properties at low-threshold underground detectors with good angular and recoil electron energy resolution. We propose to do this using a number of artificial neutrino and anti-neutrino sources such as 51Cr24 and 90Sr−Y . The neutrino flux is known to within one percent, in contrast to the reactor case and one can reach lower neutrino energies. For the 90Sr−Y source we estimate that the signal expected for a neutrino magnetic moment of μν = 6×10μB will be comparable to that expected in the SM and corresponds to a 30% enhancement in the total number of expected events. pacs13.15.+g 12.20.Fv 14.60.St 95.55.Vj ∗ E-mail: [email protected] † E-mail: [email protected] ‡ E-mail [email protected]
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