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Toward diagnosing neutrino non-unitarity through CP phase correlations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-15 v2

Abstract

We discuss correlations between the ν\nuSM CP phase δ\delta and the phases that originate from new physics which causes neutrino-sector unitarity violation (UV) at low energies. This study is motivated to provide one of the building pieces for a machinery to diagnose non-unitarity, our ultimate goal. We extend the perturbation theory of neutrino oscillation in matter proposed by Denton {\it et al.}~(DMP) to include the UV effect expressed by the α\alpha parametrization. By analyzing the DMP-UV perturbation theory to first order, we are able to draw a completed picture of the δ\delta - UV phase correlations in the whole kinematical region covered by the terrestrial neutrino experiments. There exist the two regions with the characteristically different patterns of the correlations: (1) the chiral-type [eiδαμe, eiδατe, ατμ][e^{- i \delta } \alpha_{\mu e}, ~e^{ - i \delta} \alpha_{\tau e}, ~\alpha_{\tau \mu}] (PDG convention) correlation in the entire high-energy region ρE\gsim6 (g/cm3)\vert \rho E \vert \gsim 6~(\text{g/cm}^3) GeV, and (2) (blobs of the α\alpha parameters) - e±iδe^{ \pm i \delta} correlation in anywhere else. Some relevant aspects for measurement of the UV parameters, such as the necessity of determining all the αβγ\alpha_{\beta \gamma} elements at once, are also pointed out.

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@article{arxiv.2112.06178,
  title  = {Toward diagnosing neutrino non-unitarity through CP phase correlations},
  author = {Hisakazu Minakata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.06178},
  year   = {2022}
}

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typo corrected, references added, version to appear in PTEP