English

Probing non-standard neutrino interactions with a light boson from next galactic and diffuse supernova neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-28 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Non-standard neutrino interactions with a massive boson can produce the bosons in the core of core-collapse supernovae (SNe). After the emission of the bosons from the SN core, their subsequent decays into neutrinos can modify the SN neutrino flux. We show future observations of neutrinos from a next galactic SN in Super-Kamiokande (SK) and Hyper-Kamiokande (HK) can probe flavor-universal non-standard neutrino couplings to a light boson, improving the previous limit from the SN 1987A neutrino burst by several orders of magnitude. We also discuss sensitivity of the flavor-universal non-standard neutrino interactions in future observations of diffuse neutrinos from all the past SNe, known as the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB). According to our analysis, observations of the DSNB in HK, JUNO and DUNE experiments can probe such couplings by a factor of 2\sim 2 beyond the SN 1987A constraint. However, our result is also subject to a large uncertainty concerning the precise estimation of the DSNB.

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@article{arxiv.2206.06852,
  title  = {Probing non-standard neutrino interactions with a light boson from next galactic and diffuse supernova neutrinos},
  author = {Kensuke Akita and Sang Hui Im and Mehedi Masud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.06852},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

36 pages, 11 figures, 1 Table. v2: Results for vector bosons added in appendices. References and minor clarifications added. Matches the published version in JHEP