English

Borexino and General Neutrino Interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-04-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We derive constraints on all possible general neutrino-electron interactions (scalar, vector, pseudoscalar, axialvector and tensor) using the recent real time Borexino event rate measurements of pppp, peppep and 7Be^{7}Be solar neutrinos. The limits improve several previous ones from TEXONO and CHARM-II for incoming electron and muon neutrinos, and are the first ones for the tau flavor. Future improvements by next-generation solar neutrino experiments are also studied. The limits extend the physics reach of solar neutrino measurements to TeV-scale physics. Finally, the different properties of the new interactions for Dirac and Majorana neutrinos are discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1906.12102,
  title  = {Borexino and General Neutrino Interactions},
  author = {Amir N. Khan and Werner Rodejohann and Xun-Jie Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.12102},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures and 5 tables; published version; comparison with NSI were added; figures slightly modified

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