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Thakore, T.; Devi, M.M.; Agarwalla, S.K.; Dighe, A. |
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Active-sterile neutrino oscillations at INO-ICAL over a wide mass-squared range |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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022 - 34pp |
Keywords |
Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model |
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We perform a detailed analysis for the prospects of detecting active-sterile oscillations involving a light sterile neutrino, over a large Delta m(41)(2 )range of 10(-5) eV(2) to 10(2) eV(2), using 10 years of atmospheric neutrino data expected from the proposed 50 kt magnetized ICAL detector at the INO. This detector can observe the atmospheric nu(mu), and (nu) over bar (mu) separately over a wide range of energies and baselines, making it sensitive to the magnitude and sign of Arni i over a large range. If there is no light sterile neutrino, ICAL can place competitive upper limit on vertical bar U-mu 4 vertical bar(2) less than or similar to 0.02 at 90% C.L. for Delta m(41)(2) in the range (0.5-5) x 10(-3) eV(2). For the same vertical bar Delta m(41)(2)vertical bar range, ICAL would be able to determine its sign, exploiting the Earth's matter effect in mu(-) and mu(+) events separately if there is indeed a light sterile neutrino in Nature. This would help identify the neutrino mass ordering in the four-neutrino mixing scenario. |
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[Thakore, Tarak] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA, Email: tarak.thakore@ific.uv.es; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000441224700009 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3691 |
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Khatun, A.; Chatterjee, S.S.; Thakore, T.; Agarwalla, S.K. |
Title |
Enhancing sensitivity to non-standard neutrino interactions at INO combining muon and hadron information |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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80 |
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6 |
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533 - 17pp |
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In this paper, we explore the impact of flavor violating neutral current non-standard interaction (NSI) parameter epsilon(mu tau) in the oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos and antineutrinos separately using the 50 kt magnetized ICAL detector at INO. We find that due to non-zero epsilon(mu tau), nu(mu) -> nu(mu) and (nu) over bar (mu) -> (nu) over bar (mu) transition probabilities get modified substantially at higher energies and longer baselines, where vacuum oscillation dominates. We demonstrate for the first time that by adding the hadron energy information along with the muon energy and muon direction in each event, the sensitivity of ICAL to the NSI parameter epsilon(mu tau) can be enhanced significantly. The most optimistic bound on epsilon(mu tau) that we obtain is – 0.01 < epsilon(mu tau) < 0.01 at 90% C.L. using 500 kt.yr exposure and considering E-mu, cos theta(mu), and E-had' as observables in their ranges of [1, 21] GeV, [- 1, 1], and [0, 25] GeV, respectively. We discuss for the first time the importance of the charge identification capability of the ICAL detector to have better constraints on epsilon(mu t). We also study the impact of non-zero epsilon(mu tau) on mass hierarchy determination and precision measurement of oscillation parameters. |
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[Khatun, Amina; Chatterjee, Sabya Sachi; Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar] Inst Phys, Sachivalaya Marg,Sain Sch Post, Bhubaneswar 751005, India, Email: amina@iopb.res.in; |
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1434-6044 |
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WOS:000543522000003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4450 |
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Agarwalla, S.K.; Masud, M. |
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Can Lorentz invariance violation affect the sensitivity of deep underground neutrino experiment? |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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80 |
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8 |
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716 - 18pp |
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We examine the impact of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) in measuring the octant of theta(23) and CP phases in the context of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). We consider the CPT-violating LIV parameters involving e-mu(a(e mu)) and e-tau (a(e tau)) flavors, which induce an additional interference term in neutrino and antineutrino appearance probabilities. This newinterference term depends on both the standard CP phase delta and the new dynamical CP phase phi(e mu)/phi(e tau), giving rise to new degeneracies among (theta(23), delta, phi). Taking one LIV parameter at-a-time and considering a small value of vertical bar a(e mu)vertical bar = vertical bar a(e tau)vertical bar = 5 x 10(-24) GeV, we find that the octant discovery potential of DUNE gets substantially deteriorated for unfavorable combinations of delta and phi(e mu)/phi(e tau). The octant of theta(23) can only be resolved at 3 sigma if the true value of sin(2) theta(23) less than or similar to 0.42 or >= 0.62 for any choices of delta and phi. Interestingly, we also observe that when both the LIV parameters a(e mu) and a(e tau) are present together, they cancel out the impact of each other to a significant extent, allowing DUNE to largely regain its octant resolution capability. We also reconstruct the CP phases delta and phi(e mu)/phi(e tau). The typical 1 sigma uncertainty on delta is 10-15 degrees. and the same on phi(e mu)/phi(e tau) is 25-30 degrees depending on the choices of their true values. |
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[Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar; Masud, Mehedi] Inst Phys, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar 751005, India, Email: sanjib@iopb.res.in; |
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1434-6044 |
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WOS:000557368800001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4493 |
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Agarwalla, S.K.; Hernandez, P. |
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Probing the neutrino mass hierarchy with Super-Kamiokande |
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2012 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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10 |
Issue |
10 |
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086 - 14pp |
Keywords |
Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model |
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We show that for recently discovered large values of theta(13), a superbeam with an average neutrino energy of similar to 5 GeV, such as those being proposed at CERN, if pointing to Super-Kamiokande (L similar or equal to 8770 km), could reveal the neutrino mass hierarchy at 5 sigma in less than two years irrespective of the true hierarchy and CP phase. The measurement relies on the near resonant matter effect in the nu(mu) -> nu(e) oscillation channel, and can be done counting the total number of appearance events with just a neutrino beam. |
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[Agarwalla, Sanjib Kumar; Hernandez, Pilar] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: Sanjib.Agarwalla@ific.uv.es; |
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1126-6708 |
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WOS:000310851600047 |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1251 |
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