ICARUS and Sterile Neutrinos

The ICARUS T600 detector is the largest operational liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) ever built, and it successfully took data at the Gran Sasso laboratories (LNGS), with both the CNGS muon-neutrino beam and cosmic rays, from May 2010 to June 2013. During the data taking campaign, a dedicated search was performed for an excess of electron neutrino events, possibly related to non-standard oscillations into sterile states. No evidence of excess was found, and a new Short Baseline experiment is now being developed at Fermilab, in order to definitely prove or exclude the existence of such sterile neutrinos