Non-standard neutrino interactions at DUNE

Gouvêa, André de; Kelly, Kevin J.

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.03.013

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“…Before closing let us also mention that CP ambiguities will also arise within generic non-standard interaction schemes not directly related to a seesaw mechanism as the origin of neutrino mass. Likewise, dedicated studies, analogous to those in [32][33][34][35] will be required here in order to cover each experimental setup.…”

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confidence: 99%

New Ambiguity in ProbingCPViolation in Neutrino Oscillations

2016

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If neutrinos get mass via the seesaw mechanism the mixing matrix describing neutrino oscillations can be effectively nonunitary. We show that in this case the neutrino appearance probabilities involve a new CP phase φ associated with nonunitarity. This leads to an ambiguity in extracting the "standard" three-neutrino phase δCP , which can survive even after neutrino and antineutrino channels are combined. Its existence should be taken into account in the planning of any oscillation experiment aiming at a robust measurement of δCP .

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New Ambiguity in ProbingCPViolation in Neutrino Oscillations

2016

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“…These are shown in figure 2, and have been noticed in the context of NSI 5 in refs. [72][73][74][75] (for other works on degeneracies among standard and non-standard parameters in DUNE see e.g., refs. [76][77][78][79]).…”

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Non-unitarity, sterile neutrinos, and non-standard neutrino interactions

Blennow

Coloma

Fernández‐Martínez

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Abstract:The simplest Standard Model extension to explain neutrino masses involves the addition of right-handed neutrinos. At some level, this extension will impact neutrino oscillation searches. In this work we explore the differences and similarities between the case in which these neutrinos are kinematically accessible (sterile neutrinos) or not (mixing matrix non-unitarity). We clarify apparent inconsistencies in the present literature when using different parametrizations to describe these effects and recast both limits in the popular neutrino non-standard interaction (NSI) formalism. We find that, in the limit in which sterile oscillations are averaged out at the near detector, their effects at the far detector coincide with non-unitarity at leading order, even in presence of a matter potential. We also summarize the present bounds existing in both limits and compare them with the expected sensitivities of near-future facilities taking the DUNE proposal as a benchmark. We conclude that non-unitarity effects are too constrained to impact present or near future neutrino oscillation facilities but that sterile neutrinos can play an important role at long baseline experiments. The role of the near detector is also discussed in detail.

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“…The main reason behind this reduction is the interplay between oscillations due to standard and non-standard parameters that give rise to new kinds of degeneracies for long baseline experiments [7,8]. It has been shown [11] that for sufficiently large values of the NSI parameters one could expect a degeneracy between the sign of ∆m 2 31 and δ, affecting the sensitivity of DUNE to the neutrino mass ordering [10,11].…”

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A combined study of source, detector and matter non-standard neutrino interactions at DUNE

Blennow

Choubey

Ohlsson

et al. 2016

J. High Energ. Phys.

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We simultaneously investigate source, detector and matter non-standard neutrino interactions at the proposed DUNE experiment. Our analysis is performed using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo exploring the full parameter space. We find that the sensitivity of DUNE to the standard oscillation parameters is worsened due to the presence of non-standard neutrino interactions. In particular, there are degenerate solutions in the leptonic mixing angle θ 23 and the Dirac CP-violating phase δ. We also compute the expected sensitivities at DUNE to the non-standard interaction parameters. We find that the sensitivities to the matter non-standard interaction parameters are substantially stronger than the current bounds (up to a factor of about 15). Furthermore, we discuss correlations between the source/detector and matter non-standard interaction parameters and find a degenerate solution in θ 23 . Finally, we explore the effect of statistics on our results.

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Non-standard neutrino interactions at DUNE

Cited by 142 publications

References 66 publications

New Ambiguity in ProbingCPViolation in Neutrino Oscillations

New Ambiguity in ProbingCPViolation in Neutrino Oscillations

Non-unitarity, sterile neutrinos, and non-standard neutrino interactions

A combined study of source, detector and matter non-standard neutrino interactions at DUNE

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