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Majorana CP-violating phases and NSI effects in Neutrino Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-07-25 v3

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the impact of neutrino decay in the presence of Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) along with the effects of the Majorana phase on neutrino decay in matter in the context of two-flavor neutrino oscillations. These effects are studied on neutrino oscillation probabilities PαβP(νανβ)P_{\alpha \beta} \equiv P(\nu_{\alpha} \to \nu_{\beta}), and the difference ΔPαβP(νανβ)P(νˉανˉβ)\Delta P_{\alpha \beta} \equiv P(\nu_{\alpha} \to \nu_{\beta}) - P(\bar {\nu}_{\alpha} \to \bar{\nu}_{\beta}) for several accelerator and reactor neutrino experiments. We find that for PαβP_{\alpha \beta}, the influence of the Majorana phase on decay in matter can be replicated by the simultaneous presence of both decay and NSI. However, precise measurements of the PαβP_{\alpha \beta} and ΔPαβ\Delta P_{\alpha\beta} observables have the potential to unequivocally identify the presence of the Majorana phase by discerning its effects from the concurrent presence of both decay and NSI.

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@article{arxiv.2208.14881,
  title  = {Majorana CP-violating phases and NSI effects in Neutrino Decay},
  author = {Ashutosh Kumar Alok and Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat and Arindam Mandal and Bhavya Soni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14881},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures; Matches published version