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H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck, K. Fuelber, J. Hakenmueller, G. Heusser, T. Hugle, M. Lindner, W. Maneschg, T. Rink, H. Strecker, R. Wink
Summary: The measurements from the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE nu NS) experiments have opened up possibilities to study neutrino physics beyond the standard model. This paper presents constraints on non-standard interactions (NSIs) and mediators derived from CONUS germanium data. The study found that the CONUS experiment has set the world's best limits on tensor NSIs and has the potential to probe coupling constants for scalar and vector mediators.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Mehedi Masud, Poonam Mehta, Christoph A. Ternes, Mariam Tortola
Summary: In this study, an alternative approach based on unitarity triangles is proposed to describe neutrino oscillations under non-standard interactions (NSI). By using perturbation theory, the expression for the oscillation probability in the presence of NSI is derived and expressed in terms of the three independent parameters of the leptonic unitarity triangle (LUT). The geometric view facilitated by the form invariance of the probability expression allows for expressing oscillation probabilities for a given pair of neutrino flavors using only three degrees of freedom related to the geometric properties of the triangle.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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John Gargalionis, Raymond R. Volkas
Summary: Building UV completions of lepton-number-violating effective operators is a useful way to study and classify models of Majorana neutrino mass. An algorithm described in this paper systematically generates computational representations of all tree-level completions of the operators up to mass-dimension 11, showing that some operators do not play a dominant role in neutrino-mass generation. The study also identifies at most five models containing three or fewer exotic multiplets predicting new physics below 100 TeV.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Shashank Shalgar, Irene Tamborra, Mauricio Bustamante
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Giorgio Arcadi, Jacinto Paulo Neto, Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Clarissa Siqueira
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Xun-Jie Xu, Bingrong Yu
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Jun Cao
Summary: An unusual measurement from a nuclear reactor led to a three-year hunt for the elusive sterile neutrino. The search definitively proves that sterile neutrinos do not exist, yet the anomaly continues to persist.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Hisakazu Minakata
Summary: This paper establishes a prescription for amplitude decomposition using the perturbative framework proposed by Denton et al., covering the entire kinematical region of terrestrial neutrino experiments. It analyzes the limits to atmospheric- and solar-resonance regions, arguing that the two modes of the decomposition can be interpreted as matter-dressed atmospheric and solar oscillations. The study further reveals the nature of psi (theta(12) in matter) symmetry and presents a unified perturbative framework for neutrino oscillation in earth matter.
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Sudipta Das, Mehedi Masud, Pragyanprasu Swain
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Anil Kumar, Amina Khatun, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Amol Dighe
Summary: A new method for exploring neutral-current non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) in atmospheric neutrino experiments using muon observables at detectors like ICAL has been proposed. The focus is on the flavor-changing NSI parameter epsilon(mu tau) and the identification of NSI through the curvature of oscillation valleys in the reconstructed muon observables. The achievable precision for estimating vertical bar epsilon(mu tau)vertical bar at 90% C.L. is about 2% with 500 kt.yr exposure.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Sabya Sachi Chatterjee, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Pedro A. N. Machado
Summary: This study evaluates the impact of improving the neutrino energy reconstruction in DUNE on enhancing the experimental sensitivity to non-standard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter. The results show that better energy resolution can significantly enhance the sensitivity to NSI, particularly in the presence of degeneracies.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
DianYu Liu, ChuanLe Sun, Jun Gao
Summary: The study focuses on the possible non-standard interactions (NSIs) of neutrinos with matter, deriving constraints on neutral-current NSIs with quarks using data sets from LHC measurements. Results indicate 95% CLs upper limits on NSI strength in a simplified Z ' model, with discussions on potential improvements from future runs of LHC with higher luminosities.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kari Rummukainen, Kimmo Tuominen
Summary: Understanding the dynamics of strongly coupled non-Abelian gauge theories is a major challenge in theoretical physics, with applications in understanding long-distance behavior and in areas such as dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking or composite dark sectors. This review outlines the motivations and discusses how lattice methods have been adapted to provide vacuum phase diagrams of strongly coupled gauge theories with different gauge groups and fermion representations.
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Physics, Particles & Fields
C. A. Arguelles, G. Barenboim, M. Bustamante, P. Coloma, P. B. Denton, I Esteban, Y. Farzan, E. Fernandez Martinez, D. Forero, A. M. Gago, T. Katori, R. Lehnert, M. Ross-Lonergan, A. M. Suliga, Z. Tabrizi, L. Anchordoqui, K. Chakraborty, J. Conrad, A. Das, C. S. Fong, B. R. Littlejohn, M. Maltoni, D. Parno, J. Spitz, J. Tang, S. Wissel
Summary: Neutrinos are potential messengers for new physics beyond the Standard Model, as their elusive nature and unknown mass mechanism suggest the opening of a window to new physics in the neutrino sector. Long-standing anomalies reported in the past decades provide strong motivation to thoroughly test the standard three-neutrino oscillation paradigm in current and future neutrino experiments. This Snowmass21 white paper explores the potential of these experiments to investigate new physics effects on neutrino flavor during the next decade.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
(2023)
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Hector de la Torre, Trisha Farooque
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