Measuring Active-to-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations with Neutral Current   Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
  Light sterile neutrinos have been introduced as an explanation for a number of oscillation signals at $\Delta m^2 \sim 1$ eV$^2$. Neutrino oscillations at relatively short baselines provide a probe of these possible new states. This paper describes an accelerator-based experiment using neutral current coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering to strictly search for active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations. This experiment could, thus, definitively establish the existence of sterile neutrinos and provide constraints on their mixing parameters. A cyclotron-based proton beam can be directed to multiple targets, producing a low energy pion and muon decay-at-rest neutrino source with variable distance to a single detector. Two types of detectors are considered: a germanium-based detector inspired by the CDMS design and a liquid argon detector inspired by the proposed CLEAR experiment. 
A. J. Anderson, J. M. Conrad, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, C. Ignarra, G.   Karagiorgi, K. Scholberg, M. H. Shaevitz and J. Spitz
hep-ph hep-ex physics.ins-det