A Novel Approach to Short Baseline Oscillation Searches Using Neutrino Tagging with nuSCOPE
Abstract
We present the first study of short-baseline neutrino oscillation searches using a tagged neutrino beamline, taking the proposed nuSCOPE facility at CERN as a benchmark. In this Letter we demonstrate that tagged neutrino beams, where the neutrino flavor, energy, and propagation distance are determined with exceptional event-by-event precision, provide a new experimental approach to search for non-standard neutrino oscillations. We evaluate the sensitivity to sterile-neutrino-induced oscillations in the νμ disappearance, νμ→ νe appearance, and νe disappearance channels, demonstrating the ability to probe multiple flavor transitions and both appearance and disappearance modes within a single experiment. Our results show that tagged beams enable sensitivity improvements to mass-squared splittings spanning several orders of magnitude while substantially reducing the dependence on neutrino flux predictions that limits conventional searches. We find that nuSCOPE can probe a broad region of parameter space motivated by existing anomalies and extend coverage into previously unexplored territory, demonstrating the strong potential of tagged neutrino beams for precision oscillation physics.
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BibTeX
@misc{blanchet2026novel,
title = {{A Novel Approach to Short Baseline Oscillation Searches Using Neutrino Tagging with nuSCOPE}},
author = {Adrien Blanchet and César Jesús-Valls and Animesh Chatterjee and Stephen Dolan and Pierre Granger and Laura Munteanu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.14263},
eprint = {2606.14263},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14263},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Novel Approach to Short Baseline Oscillation Searches Using Neutrino Tagging with nuSCOPE
AU - Adrien Blanchet
AU - César Jesús-Valls
AU - Animesh Chatterjee
AU - Stephen Dolan
AU - Pierre Granger
AU - Laura Munteanu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.14263
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14263
AB - We present the first study of short-baseline neutrino oscillation searches using a tagged neutrino beamline, taking the proposed nuSCOPE facility at CERN as a benchmark. In this Letter we demonstrate that tagged neutrino beams, where the neutrino flavor, energy, and propagation distance are determined with exceptional event-by-event precision, provide a new experimental approach to search for non-standard neutrino oscillations. We evaluate the sensitivity to sterile-neutrino-induced oscillations in the ν_μ disappearance, ν_μ→ ν_e appearance, and ν_e disappearance channels, demonstrating the ability to probe multiple flavor transitions and both appearance and disappearance modes within a single experiment. Our results show that tagged beams enable sensitivity improvements to mass-squared splittings spanning several orders of magnitude while substantially reducing the dependence on neutrino flux predictions that limits conventional searches. We find that nuSCOPE can probe a broad region of parameter space motivated by existing anomalies and extend coverage into previously unexplored territory, demonstrating the strong potential of tagged neutrino beams for precision oscillation physics.
ER -