Probing the fourth neutrino existence by neutral current oscillometry in the spherical gaseous TPC Original Research Article

It is shown that, if the “new neutrino” implied by the Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly exists and is in fact characterized by the suggested relatively high mass squared difference and reasonably large mixing angle, it should clearly reveal itself in the oscillometry measurements. For a judicious neutrino source the “new oscillation length” image is expected shorter than 1.5 m. Thus the needed measurements can be implemented with a gaseous spherical TPC of modest dimensions with a very good energy and position resolution, detecting nuclear recoils following the coherent neutrino–nucleus elastic scattering. The best candidates for oscillometry, yielding both monochromatic neutrinos as well as antineutrinos, are discussed. A sensitivity in the mixing angle image, image (99%), can be reached after a few months of data handling.