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Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and new Neutrino Interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-04-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate the potential to probe new neutrino physics with future experiments measuring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering. Experiments with high statistics should become feasible soon and allow to constrain parameters with unprecedented precision. Using a benchmark setup for a future experiment probing reactor neutrinos, we study the sensitivity on neutrino non-standard interactions and new exotic neutral currents (scalar, tensor, etc). Compared to Fermi interaction, percent and permille level strengths of the new interactions can be probed, superseding for some observables the limits from future neutrino oscillation experiments by up to two orders of magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04150,
  title  = {Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and new Neutrino Interactions},
  author = {Manfred Lindner and Werner Rodejohann and Xun-Jie Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04150},
  year   = {2017}
}

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21 pages, 12 figures, comments added, version to appear in JHEP