Measuring the Low-Energy Weak Mixing Angle with Supernova Neutrinos
Abstract
The weak mixing angle is a fundamental parameter in the electroweak theory with a value running according to the energy scale, and its precision measurement in the low-energy regime is still ongoing. We propose a method to measure the low-energy by taking advantage of Argo, a future ton-scale liquid argon dark matter detector, and the neutrino flux from a nearby core-collapse supernova (CCSN). We evaluate the expected precision of this measurement through the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) channel. We show that Argo is potentially capable of achieving a few percent determination of , at the momentum transfer of MeV, in the observation of a CCSN within kpc from the Earth. Such a measurement is valuable for both the precision test of the electroweak theory and searching for new physics beyond the standard model in the neutrino sector.
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@article{arxiv.2504.02447,
title = {Measuring the Low-Energy Weak Mixing Angle with Supernova Neutrinos},
author = {Chun-Ming Yip and Xu-Run Huang and Ming-chung Chu and Qishan Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02447},
year = {2025}
}
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20 pages, 5 figures, published version