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Measuring the Weak Mixing Angle in the DUNE Near Detector Complex

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-08-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The planned DUNE experiment will have excellent sensitivity to the vector and axial couplings of the electron to the ZZ-boson via precision measurements of neutrino--electron scattering. We investigate the sensitivity of DUNE-PRISM, a movable near detector in the direction perpendicular to the beam line, and find that it will qualitatively impact our ability to constrain the weak couplings of the electron. We translate these neutrino--electron scattering measurements into a determination of the weak mixing angle at low scales and estimate that, with seven years of data taking, the DUNE near-detector can be used to measure sin2θW\sin^2\theta_W with about 2\% precision. We also discuss the impact of combining neutrino--electron scattering data with neutrino trident production at DUNE-PRISM.

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@article{arxiv.1912.06658,
  title  = {Measuring the Weak Mixing Angle in the DUNE Near Detector Complex},
  author = {André de Gouvêa and Pedro A. N. Machado and Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez and Zahra Tabrizi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06658},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, 1 Table. Improved analysis, added supplemental material, conclusions unchanged

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