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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-18 v2

Abstract

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 θ23\theta_{23} and the Dirac CP-violating phase δ\delta. 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 θ23\theta_{23}. Finally, we explore the effect of statistics on our results.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08851,
  title  = {A combined study of source, detector and matter non-standard neutrino interactions at DUNE},
  author = {Mattias Blennow and Sandhya Choubey and Tommy Ohlsson and Dipyaman Pramanik and Sushant K. Raut},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08851},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

21 pages, 7 figures. Version accepted for publication in JHEP