Neutrino Non-standard Interactions with arbitrary couplings to u and d quarks
Abstract
We introduce a model for Non-Standard neutral current Interaction (NSI) between neutrinos and the matter fields, with an arbitrary coupling to the up and down quarks. The model is based on a new gauge symmetry with a light gauge boson that mixes with the photon. We show that the couplings to the and quarks can have a ratio such that the contribution from NSI to the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENS) amplitude vanishes, relaxing the bound on the NSI from the CENS experiments. Additionally, the deviation of the measured value of the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the muon from the standard-model prediction can be fitted. The most limiting constraints on our model come from the search for the decay of the new gauge boson to and invisible particles, carried out by NA48/2 and NA64, respectively. We show that these bounds can be relaxed by opening up the decay of the new gauge boson to new light scalars that eventually decay into the pairs. We show that there are ranges that can lead to both a solution to the anomaly and values of large enough to be probed by future solar neutrino experiments.
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@article{arxiv.2211.15686,
title = {Neutrino Non-standard Interactions with arbitrary couplings to u and d quarks},
author = {Nicolás Bernal and Yasaman Farzan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15686},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
13+4 pages, 4 figures. V2 matches the published version in PRD