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nuSTORM as a Precision Probe of the Standard Model and New Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-16 v2

Abstract

The Neutrinos from Stored Muons (nuSTORM) facility will generate neutrino beams from both muon and meson decays in a storage ring, providing a neutrino flux known to the percent level. This unprecedented precision enables a rich physics programme, including high-precision tests of the Standard Model and searches for new phenomena. In this paper we demonstrate nuSTORM's sensitivity to key Standard Model processes such as, measurements of the weak mixing angle at low Q2Q^2 and the rare process of neutrino trident production. We also show its powerful reach for a diverse range of beyond-the-Standard-Model scenarios, including eV-scale sterile neutrinos, Kaluza-Klein excitations from large extra dimensions and lepton flavour violation. Furthermore, nuSTORM can place significant constraints on heavy QCD axions and other axion-like particles produced in rare kaon decays. These capabilities establish nuSTORM as a powerful and complementary probe to long baseline experiments and collider searches.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2509.08882,
  title  = {nuSTORM as a Precision Probe of the Standard Model and New Physics},
  author = {Jack Franklin and Rohan Kamath and Dhruv Pasari and Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez and Jessica Turner and Maria Athina Vogiatzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.08882},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

29 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables; v2: Figure 3 updated, matches the published version