Speaker
Description
The past three decades of experimental neutrino measurements have accumulated observations of potential anomalous short-baseline flavor transformation from different sectors of varied neutrino source (proton accelerators, reactors, and intense radioactive sources) and energy (from sub-MeV to GeV scales). They serve as an intensifying experimental impetus for pursuing beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics accessible through the neutrino sector, such as new neutrino mass states and hidden-sector couplings. With the generation mechanism of neutrino mass currently unknown, these BSM searches are also theoretically well-motivated. In this talk, I will provide an updated view of today’s short-baseline neutrino anomaly landscape, focusing on how new and recent results are evolving the community’s assessments of potential BSM explanations, including non-standard oscillations and/or hidden sector particle decays and couplings. New 2024-2025 results from the reactor, atmospheric, and accelerator neutrino sectors will be specifically highlighted.
