Short Baseline Accelerator-Based Neutrino Oscillation Searches

TL;DR

This paper reviews short baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments, comparing past results like LSND with others, and discusses the upcoming MiniBooNE experiment designed to clarify these findings.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current experimental status and introduces MiniBooNE as a definitive test for the LSND anomaly.

Findings

LSND observed evidence for numubar->nuebar oscillations

KARMEN, NOMAD, and NuTeV found negative results in the same channel

MiniBooNE is designed to confirm or refute LSND's findings

Abstract

We review the status of the search for neutrino oscillations in the short baseline regime with experiments at accelerators. The evidence for numubar->nuebar from the LSND experiment is compared with the negative results of the KARMEN numubar->nuebar search and with the results from NOMAD and NuTeV in the same flavor mixing channel. We describe the upcoming MiniBooNE experiment which should be sufficiently sensitive to unambiguously confirm or completely rule out the LSND signal.