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Constraints on light vector mediators through coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering data from COHERENT

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-01-22 v3

Abstract

We present new constraints on three different models, the so-called universal, BLB-L and LμLτL_\mu-L_\tau models, involving a yet to be observed light vector ZZ' mediator, by exploiting the recent observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEν\nuNS) in argon and cesium-iodide performed by the COHERENT Collaboration. We compare the results obtained from a combination of the above data sets with the limits derived from searches in fixed target, accelerator, solar neutrino and reactor CEν\nuNS experiments, and with the parameter region that could explain the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We show that for the universal and the BLB-L models, the COHERENT data allow us to put stringent limits in the light vector mediator mass, MZM_{Z'}, and coupling, gZg_{Z'}, parameter space.

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@article{arxiv.2008.05022,
  title  = {Constraints on light vector mediators through coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering data from COHERENT},
  author = {M. Cadeddu and N. Cargioli and F. Dordei and C. Giunti and Y. F. Li and E. Picciau and Y. Y. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05022},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 figures, matches journal version