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Tau neutrino as a probe of nonstandard interaction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the Δ\Delta-resonance and deep inelastic scattering contributions in the tau-neutrino nucleon scattering ντ+Nτ+X\nu_{\tau}+ N \to \tau^- + X and νˉτ+Nτ++X\bar{\nu}_{\tau}+ N \to \tau^+ + X in the presence of a charged Higgs and a WW' gauge boson. The new physics effects to the quasielastic process have been discussed in a previous work. The extractions of the atmospheric mixing angle θ23\theta_{23} rely on the standard model cross sections for ντ+Nτ+X\nu_{\tau}+ N \to \tau^- + X in ντ\nu_{\tau} appearance experiments. Corrections to the cross sections from the charged Higgs and WW' contributions modify the measured mixing angle. We include form factor effects in the new physics calculations and find the deviations of the mixing angle. If high-energy Long Base Line experiments are designed to measure θ13\theta_{13} through tau neutrino appearance, the new physics effects to ντ+Nτ+X\nu_{\tau}+ N \to \tau^- + X and νˉτ+Nτ++X\bar{\nu}_{\tau}+ N \to \tau^+ + X can impact the extraction of this mixing angle. Finally, we investigate the new physics effects on the polarization of the τ\tau^\mp leptons produced in ντ(νˉτ)\nu_\tau (\bar{\nu}_\tau) nucleon scattering.

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@article{arxiv.1303.4332,
  title  = {Tau neutrino as a probe of nonstandard interaction},
  author = {Ahmed Rashed and Preet Sharma and Alakabha Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4332},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

27 pages, 31 figures. Accepted for Publication in Nuclear Physics B