Status and perspectives of short baseline studies

The study of flavor changing neutrinos is a very active field of research. I will discuss the status of ongoing and near term experiments investigating neutrino properties at short distances from the source. In the next few years, the Double Chooz, RENO and Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiments will start looking for signatures of a non-zero value of the mixing angle θ13 with much improved sensitivities. The MiniBooNE experiment is investigating the LSND anomaly by looking at both the νμ νe and νμ νe appearance channels. Recent results on cross section measurements will be discussed briefly. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.SCOPUS: cp.j