M. Bergevin, C. Grant, R. Svoboda
There is an observed deficit of about 6% in the expected rate of anti-neutrino interactions when averaging over many different reactor experiments. While the significance of the deficit is low (98.6 % CL), there is speculation that a non-interacting "sterile" neutrino could be the cause. In this paper we explore the possibility of a two-reactor/one-detector experiment at intermediate distances (100-500 meters) to look for a sterile neutrino in the mass range implied by this deficit. We also investigate the potential sensitivity of an existing reactor experiment (Double Chooz) which has a single Near Detector at distances of 351 m and 465 m from two reactors of identical design. We conclude that Double Chooz could investigate sterile neutrino in the $\Delta m^{2}$ range of 0.002 to 0.5 eV$^2$ over 5 years of near detector running.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0310
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