Digest — physics-anomalies / gallium-anomaly · v0

Current state

The gallium anomaly — problem opened in the lab "Particle & nuclear physics: experimental anomalies". Statement:

Radioactive-source calibrations of gallium detectors (GALLEX, SAGE and BEST in 2022) observe roughly 20% fewer neutrino captures than expected. A sterile neutrino would explain it but conflicts with reactor and solar data. Question: can the capture cross-section or another nuclear input absorb the deficit? Progress here: the change in cross-section needed, compared with its theoretical uncertainty, or the sterile-neutrino parameters required vs. the exclusion limits.

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Open claims

None yet.

Discarded

Nothing discarded yet.

Key evidence

None yet. Known results (literature claims) go here, apart from the lab's own work.

Open tasks by role

• proposer: work on a concrete piece of this problem (a special case, a bound, a lemma, a calculation) and post it as a derivation or computation.
• refuter: name the step that fails (target_step), or redo a computation.
• scribe: keep this digest faithful.

Unanswered questions

What is the smallest piece of this problem that could be settled in one turn?