PoS(EPS-HEP2017)141 mass- 2 https://pos.sissa.it/ † ∗ [email protected] Speaker. On behalf of the SBND and MicroBooNE Collaborations. The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program atwith Fermilab is the a main short-baseline goal neutrino experiment of performing definitive search for neutrino oscillations in the 1 eV splitting scale. The SBN consiststectors, of the three Short-Baseline liquid Near argon Detector timeBooNE), (SBND), projection and MicroBooster Imaging chamber Cosmic Neutrino (LAr-TPC) And Experiment de- Rare (Micro- UndergroundNeutrino Signals (ICARUS), Beam-line situated (BNB). in the In Booster additiontors to in its the main neutrino physics beam-line, goal,interactions. SBN having will Moreover, three the also LAr-TPC experience perform detec- of precisewith constructing measurements and the on running ongoing neutrino-argon LAr-TPC R&D detectors activitieslong-baseline together neutrino in oscillation the experiment DUNE. SBN This program paperof discusses the will the program, help physics its potentials current to status realize and the ongoing activities. next generation ∗ † Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons c Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The European Physical Society Conference on5-12 High July Energy Physics Venice, Italy Serhan Tufanli The Short Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab Yale University E-mail: PoS(EPS-HEP2017)141 protons on 20 Serhan Tufanli sterile neutrino 10 2 × m ∆ contamination. As shown in e disappearance from the nuclear ν e ¯ ν ] was designed to provide a definitive 6 ]. However, electron like excess from the 2 , 1 1 ], together with 4 ]. LArTPC provides millimetric spatial resolution and precise ] can not be explained with the standard three flavor oscillations 7 5 Schematic view of the SBN complex at Fermilab. , SBND will be situated at 100 m from the BNB target, followed by 1 Figure 1: ] and the MiniBooNE experiments [ 3 The main physics goal of the SBN program is to search for sterile neutrinos and perform a The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program (SBN) [ In the last two decades, measurements from neutrino oscillation experiments have proved the schematic view in Figure measurement of calorimetric information,production which background, helps to which reduce inments. neutral-current turn For induced is the photon the electron neutrino dominant appearance, background combining 3 for experiments electron with 19.8 neutrino experi- definitive test for the MiniBooNE/LSNDity sterile to neutrino address oscillation this interpretation. question in SBNusing both has the electron abil- neutrino LAr-TPC appearance technology and [ muon neutrino disappearance 2. SBN Physics Program reactors and radioactive sources [ oscillations. SBN is alarge three far detector detector, setup ICARUS. These with detectors awhich will new sit has near on-axis 0.7 in detector, GeV the SBND, neutrino Booster MicroBooNE Neutrino energy and Beam peak (BNB), a and well known 0.5 % LSND [ and require the existence of sterile neutrino with a mass range of 1 eV. MicroBooNE at 470 m and ICARUS be at 600 m. mixing and oscillation among three active flavors [ The Short Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab 1. SBN Program at Fermilab answer as to whether the short-baseline anomalies can be associated with high PoS(EPS-HEP2017)141 sig- p.o.t σ 20 1 10 shows the × 2 σ σ σ Serhan Tufanli σ σ Global 2017 1 Global 2017 2 Global 2017 3 Global 2017 best fit SBN 3 SBN 5 disappearance µ ν µ ]. Figure µ 8 1 θ − 2 2 10 sin -argon interactions extensively. ν protons on target in ICARUS and SBND protons on target in MicroBooNE 20 20 10 10 × × 6.60 13.2 SBN sensitivities assume exposures of: Global 2017: S. Gariazzo et al., arXiv:1703.00860 [hep-ph] 2 − 1 ]. The detector installation was completed

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PoS(EPS-HEP2017)141 Serhan Tufanli 3 -argon cross-section in addition to the development ν . 3 The SBND(left) and ICARUS (right) buildings at Fermilab. Figure 3: , the detector building at Fermilab has been finalized. Inside the building, a warm vessel 3 The SBN program, consisting of SBND, MicroBooNE and ICARUS experiments, will study The ICARUS experiment is going to be the far detector of the SBN program. ICARUS was of LAr-TPC technology for futurement is large currently neutrino collecting experiments data, likedetector while DUNE. pieces SBND and MicroBooNE is ICARUS making experi- is excellent under progress installation in at construction Fermilab. of the 4. 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