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Accelerator driven system (ADS) subcritical nuclear reactors are under development around the world. They will be intense sources of free, 30-55 MeV μ + decay at rest \( {\overline{\nu}}_{\mu } \). These ADS reactor neutrinos can provide a robust test of the LSND anomaly and a precise measurement of the leptonic CP-violating phase δ, including sign(cos(δ)). The first phase of many ADS programs includes the construction of a low energy, high intensity proton or deuteron accelerator, which can yield competitive bounds on sterile neutrinos.
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Ciuffoli, E., Evslin, J. & Zhao, F. Neutrino physics with accelerator driven subcritical reactors. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 4 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)004
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