Rossi, R. R., Sanchez Garcia, G., & Tortola, M. (2024). Probing nuclear properties and neutrino physics with current and future CEνNS experiments. Phys. Rev. D, 109(9), 095044–17pp.
Abstract: The recent observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) with neutrinos from pion decay at rest (N-DAR) sources by the COHERENT Collaboration has raised interest in this process in the search for new physics. Unfortunately, current uncertainties in the determination of nuclear parameters relevant to those processes can hide new physics effects. This is not the case for processes involving lower-energy neutrino sources such as nuclear reactors. Note, however, that a CEvNS measurement with reactor neutrinos depends largely on a (still-missing) precise determination of the quenching factor at very low energies, making its observation more challenging. In the upcoming years, once this signal is confirmed, a combined analysis of N-DAR and reactor CEvNS experiments will be very useful to probe particle and nuclear physics, with a reduced dependence on nuclear uncertainties. In this work, we explore this idea by simultaneously testing the sensitivity of current and future CEvNS experiments to neutrino nonstandard interactions (NSIs) and the neutron root mean square (rms) radius, considering different neutrino sources as well as several detection materials. We show how the interplay between future reactor and accelerator CEvNS experiments can help to get robust constraints on the neutron rms and to break degeneracies between the NSI parameters. Our forecast could be used as a guide to optimize the experimental sensitivity to the parameters under study.
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Cherchiglia, A., Pasquini, P., Peres, O. L. G., Rodrigues, F. F., Rossi, R. R., & Souza, E. S. (2025). Alleviating the present tension between T2K and NOνA with nonstandard neutrino interactions. Phys. Rev. D, 112(9), 093004–8pp.
Abstract: Since neutrino oscillation was observed, several experiments have been built to measure its parameters. NuMI Off-axis ve Appearance (NOvA) and Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) are two long-baseline experiments dedicated to measuring mainly the mixing angle 823, the charge-parity (CP) conjugation phase MCP, and the mass ordering. However, there is a tension in current data. The T2K allowed region is in conflict with the region allowed by NOvA. We propose a nonstandard charged current interaction (CC-NSI) in neutrino production to relieve this tension. The CC-NSI is computed through quantum field theory formalism, where we derive perturbative analytical formulae considering CC-NSI in the pion decay. Within this new approach, we can alleviate NOvA and T2K tension for CC-NSI complex parameters of order 10-3. We show the new phase has a degeneracy to the Dirac CP phase of the form MCP + % = 1.52c, being a possible source of violation of charge-parity symmetry.
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