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Farzan, Y.; Tortola, M. |
| Title |
Neutrino oscillations and non-standard Interactions |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Frontiers in Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Front. Physics |
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6 |
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Pages |
10 - 34pp |
| Keywords |
neutrino oscillations; leptonic CP violation; non-standard neutrino interactions; neutrino masses; neutrino physics |
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Current neutrino experiments are measuring the neutrino mixing parameters with an unprecedented accuracy. The upcoming generation of neutrino experiments will be sensitive to subdominant neutrino oscillation effects that can in principle give information on the yet-unknown neutrino parameters: the Dirac CP-violating phase in the PMNS mixing matrix, the neutrino mass ordering and the octant of.23. Determining the exact values of neutrino mass and mixing parameters is crucial to test various neutrino models and flavor symmetries that are designed to predict these neutrino parameters. In the first part of this review, we summarize the current status of the neutrino oscillation parameter determination. We consider the most recent data from all solar neutrino experiments and the atmospheric neutrino data from Super-Kamiokande, IceCube, and ANTARES. We also implement the data from the reactor neutrino experiments KamLAND, Daya Bay, RENO, and Double Chooz as well as the long baseline neutrino data from MINOS, T2K, and NO.A. If in addition to the standard interactions, neutrinos have subdominant yet-unknown Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) with matter fields, extracting the values of these parameters will suffer from new degeneracies and ambiguities. We review such effects and formulate the conditions on the NSI parameters under which the precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters can be distorted. Like standard weak interactions, the non-standard interaction can be categorized into two groups: Charged Current (CC) NSI and Neutral Current (NC) NSI. Our focus will bemainly on neutral current NSI because it is possible to build a class of models that give rise to sizeable NC NSI with discernible effects on neutrino oscillation. These models are based on new U(1) gauge symmetry with a gauge boson of mass. 10 MeV. The UV complete model should be of course electroweak invariant which in general implies that along with neutrinos, charged fermions also acquire new interactions on which there are strong bounds. We enumerate the bounds that already exist on the electroweak symmetric models and demonstrate that it is possible to build viable models avoiding all these bounds. In the end, we review methods to test these models and suggest approaches to break the degeneracies in deriving neutrino mass parameters caused by NSI. |
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[Farzan, Yasaman] Inst Res Fundamental Sci, Sch Phys, Tehran, Iran, Email: mariam@ific.uv.es |
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Frontiers Research Foundation |
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English |
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2296-424x |
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WOS:000426198100001 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3502 |
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Escrihuela, F.J.; Forero, D.V.; Miranda, O.G.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Probing CP violation with non-unitary mixing in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments: DUNE as a case study |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2017 |
Publication |
New Journal of Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
New J. Phys. |
| Volume |
19 |
Issue |
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Pages |
093005 - 14pp |
| Keywords |
neutrino masses and mixings; neutrino oscillations; neutrino interactions |
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When neutrino masses arise from the exchange of neutral heavy leptons, as in most seesaw schemes, the effective lepton mixing matrix N describing neutrino propagation is non-unitary, hence neutrinos are not exactly orthonormal. New CP violation phases appear in N that could be confused with the standard phase delta(CP) characterizing the three neutrino paradigm. We study the potential of the long-baseline neutrino experiment DUNE in probing CP violation induced by the standard CP phase in the presence of non-unitarity. In order to accomplish this we develop our previous formalism, so as to take into account the neutrino interactions with the medium, important in long baseline experiments such as DUNE. We find that the expected CP sensitivity of DUNE is somewhat degraded with respect to that characterizing the standard unitary case. However the effect is weaker than might have been expected thanks mainly to the wide neutrino beam. We also investigate the sensitivity of DUNE to the parameters characterizing non-unitarity. In this case we find that there is no improvement expected with respect to the current situation, unless the near detector setup is revamped. |
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[Escrihuela, F. J.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: franesfe@alumni.uv.es; |
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Iop Publishing Ltd |
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English |
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1367-2630 |
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WOS:000410457100001 |
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International Collaboration |
yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3292 |
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NOMAD Collaboration (Samoylov, O. et al); Cervera-Villanueva, A.; Gomez-Cadenas, J.J.; Hernando, J. |
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A precision measurement of charm dimuon production in neutrino interactions from the NOMAD experiment |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2013 |
Publication |
Nuclear Physics B |
Abbreviated Journal |
Nucl. Phys. B |
| Volume |
876 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
339-375 |
| Keywords |
Charm production; Strange quark content of the nucleon; Dimuon charm production; Neutrino interactions |
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We present our new measurement of the cross-section for charm dimuon production in neutrino iron interactions based upon the full statistics collected by the NOMAD experiment. After background subtraction we observe 15 344 charm dimuon events, providing the largest sample currently available. The analysis exploits the large inclusive charged current sample – about 9 x 10(6) events after all analysis cuts – and the high resolution NOMAD detector to constrain the total systematic uncertainty on the ratio of charm dimuon to inclusive Charged Current (CC) cross-sections to similar to 2%. We also perform a fit to the NOMAD data to extract the charm production parameters and the strange quark sea content of the nucleon within the NLO QCD approximation. We obtain a value of m(c)(m(c)) = 1.159 +/- 0.075 GeV/c(2) for the running mass of the charm quark in the (MS) over bar scheme and a strange quark sea suppression factor of kappa(s) = 0.591 +/- 0.019 at Q(2) = 20 GeV2/c(2). |
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[Bassompierre, G.; Gaillard, J. -M.; Gouanere, M.; Krasnoperov, A.; Mendiburu, J. -P.; Nedelec, P.; Pessard, H.; Sillou, D.] LAPP, Annecy, France, Email: Roberto.Petti@cern.ch |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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English |
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0550-3213 |
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WOS:000325903700001 |
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no |
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yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1625 |
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