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Sensitivity of T2KK to the non-standard interaction in propagation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-13 v2

Abstract

Assuming only the non-zero electron and tau neutrino components ϵee\epsilon_{ee}, ϵeτ\epsilon_{e\tau}, ϵττ\epsilon_{\tau\tau} of the non-standard matter effect and postulating the atmospheric neutrino constraint ϵττ=ϵeτ2/(1+ϵee)\epsilon_{\tau\tau}=|\epsilon_{e\tau}|^2/(1+\epsilon_{ee}), we study the sensitivity to the non-standard interaction in neutrino propagation of the T2KK neutrino long-baseline experiment. It is shown that T2KK can constrain the parameters ϵee1|\epsilon_{ee}|\lesssim 1, ϵeτ0.2|\epsilon_{e\tau}|\lesssim 0.2. It is also shown that if ϵeτ|\epsilon_{e\tau}| and θ13\theta_{13} are large, then T2KK can determine the Dirac phase and the phase of ϵeτ\epsilon_{e\tau} separately, due to the information at the two baselines. We also provide an argument that the components ϵαμ|\epsilon_{\alpha\mu}| (α=e,μ,τ)(\alpha=e,\mu,\tau) must be small for the disappearance oscillation probability to be consistent with high-energy atmospheric neutrino data, which justifies our premise that these quantities are negligible.

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@article{arxiv.1003.5554,
  title  = {Sensitivity of T2KK to the non-standard interaction in propagation},
  author = {Haruna Oki and Osamu Yasuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5554},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

29 pages, 25 figures, uses revtex4-1. Several places including typos revised. New references added