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arxiv: 2507.07397 · v1 · pith:FTMEBSJJnew · submitted 2025-07-10 · ✦ hep-ph

LIQUIDating the Gallium Anomaly

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keywords neutrinotextanomalygalliumcrossenergyindiumsection
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The gallium anomaly has a global significance of greater than $5\sigma$. Most viable BSM solutions quickly run into strong tensions with reactor and solar neutrino data. We propose to use indium (${}^{115}\text{In}$) as a target as it offers a low threshold and reasonably high cross section. The neutrino-indium charged current cross section can be calibrated using the well-constrained solar ${}^{7}\text{Be}$ neutrino flux that lies very close in energy to the ${}^{51}\text{Cr}$ neutrino lines. The triple coincidence provided by ${}^{115}\text{In}$ neutrino capture can be fully exploited by an opaque scintillation detector that also provides energy and position information. We show that a $100$ ton indium target combined with 2 source runs of a $3.4$ MCi ${}^{51}\text{Cr}$ source can probe the complete parameter space of the gallium anomaly, both in the context of a vanilla sterile neutrino as well as more involved BSM scenarios.

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