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Probing Terrestrial Relic Neutrino Charge with Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-06-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We propose a novel method to probe the cosmic neutrino background (CNB) which has been shown to be accumulated on the surface of the earth. If such relic neutrino carries non-zero electric charge, Mach-Zehnder interferometer offers a suitable venue to unveil its interaction with photons. For neutrino mass equals to 0.05 eV, the sensitivity reach of our proposal could probe the fractional electric charge of the neutrino ϵν\epsilon_{\nu} as low as 9.3×1011,1.6×10169.3 \times 10^{-11},\, 1.6 \times 10^{-16}, and 2.9×10222.9 \times 10^{-22} provided that the interferometer operates at standard quantum limit (SQL), the Heisenberg limit as well as super-Heisenberg limit, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2506.04621,
  title  = {Probing Terrestrial Relic Neutrino Charge with Mach-Zehnder Interferometer},
  author = {Chuan-Ren Chen and Chrisna Setyo Nugroho and Vincent Gene L. Otero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04621},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures