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Testing Flavor Changing Neutrino Interactions in Long Baseline Experiments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We have investigated the possibility of discerning mass from flavor changing neutrino interactions induced νμντ\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau oscillations in the long baseline neutrino experiments K2K and MINOS. We have found that for virtually any value of the flavor conserving parameter ϵ\epsilon^\prime it will be possible to, independently, distinguish these two mechanisms at K2K, if the flavor changing parameter ϵ\epsilon is in the range ϵ\gsim0.77\epsilon \gsim 0.77, and at MINOS, if ϵ\gsim0.2\epsilon \gsim 0.2. Moreover, if K2K measures a depletion of the expected νμ\nu_\mu flux then MINOS will either observe or discard completely flavor changing neutrino oscillations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9911470,
  title  = {Testing Flavor Changing Neutrino Interactions in Long Baseline Experiments},
  author = {A. M. Gago and L. P. Freitas and O. L. G. Peres and R. Zukanovich Funchal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9911470},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

21 pages with 7 figures, uses Elsart style and epsfig

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