Status and perspectives of short baseline studies

TL;DR

This paper reviews current and upcoming short baseline neutrino experiments, highlighting their goals to measure neutrino oscillation parameters, investigate anomalies, and improve cross section measurements.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the status and perspectives of short baseline neutrino studies, emphasizing experimental efforts and recent results.

Findings

Upcoming experiments will improve sensitivity to neutrino mixing angle θ13.

MiniBooNE investigates LSND anomaly through appearance channels.

Recent cross section measurements are summarized.

Abstract

The study of flavor changing neutrinos is a very active field of research. I will discuss the status of ongoing and near term experiments investigating neutrino properties at short distances from the source. In the next few years, the Double Chooz, RENO and Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiments will start looking for signatures of a non-zero value of the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ with much improved sensitivities. The MiniBooNE experiment is investigating the LSND anomaly by looking at both the $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{e}$ and $\bar{\nu}_{\mu} \to \bar{\nu}_{e}$ appearance channels. Recent results on cross section measurements will be discussed briefly.