Constraints on the nonstandard interaction in propagation from atmospheric neutrinos

DOI10.1155/2015/820941MaRDI QIDQ2363945zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shinya Fukasawa, Osamu Yasuda

Publication date 17 July 2017

Published in Advances in High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08056

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: The sensitivity of the atmospheric neutrino experiments to the non-standard flavor-dependent interaction in neutrino propagation is studied under the assumption that the only nonvanishing components of the non-standard matter effect are the electron and tau neutrino components $epsilo{n}_{ee}$, $epsilo{n}_{eau}$, $epsilo{n}_{auau}$ and that the tau-tau component satisfies the constraint $epsilo{n}_{auau}=|epsilo{n}_{eau}{|}^2/(1+epsilo{n}_{ee})$ which is suggested from the high energy behavior for atmospheric neutrino data. It is shown that the Superkamiokande (SK) data for 4438 days constrains $$ at 2.5$sigma$ (98.8%) CL whereas the future Hyperkamiokande experiment for the same period of time as SK will constrain as $$ at 2.5$sigma$CL from the energy rate analysis and the energy spectrum analysis will give even tighter bounds on $epsilo{n}_{ee}$ and $|epsilo{n}_{eau}|$.

Review text

Summary: The sensitivity of the atmospheric neutrino experiments to the nonstandard flavor-dependent interaction in neutrino propagation is studied under the assumption that only nonvanishing components of the nonstandard matter effect are the electron and tau neutrino components \(\epsilon_{e e}\), and \(\epsilon_{e \tau}\), \(\epsilon_{\tau \tau}\) and that the tau-tau component satisfies the constraint \(\epsilon_{\tau \tau} = | \epsilon_{e \tau} |^2 /(1 + \epsilon_{e e})\) which is suggested from the high energy behavior for atmospheric neutrino data. It is shown that the Super-Kamiokande (SK) data for 4438 days constrains \(| \operatorname{t} \operatorname{a} \operatorname{n} \beta | \equiv | \epsilon_{e \tau} /(1 + \epsilon_{e e}) | \lesssim 0.8\) at 2.5\(\sigma\) (98.8\%) CL whereas the future Hyper-Kamiokande experiment for the same period of time as SK will constrain as \(| \operatorname{t} \operatorname{a} \operatorname{n} \beta | \lesssim 0.3\) at 2.5\(\sigma\)CL from the energy rate analysis and the energy

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• The possibility to observe the non-standard interaction by the Hyperkamiokande atmospheric neutrino experiment
• Non-standard neutrino interactions in the mu-tau sector
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• Testing matter effects in propagation of atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos

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• Testing matter effects in propagation of atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos
• The possibility to observe the non-standard interaction by the Hyperkamiokande atmospheric neutrino experiment

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