White Paper on New Opportunities at the Next-Generation Neutrino Experiments (Part 1: BSM Neutrino Physics and Dark Matter)

Technical Report · Thu Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1556972· OSTI ID:1556972

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1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
2. Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)
3. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
4. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
5. Queen Mary Univ. of London (United Kingdom)
6. Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX (United States)
7. Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)
8. Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
9. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
10. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
11. Univ. of Dallas, Dallas, TX (United States)
12. IFGW - UNICAMP, Campinas (Brazil)
13. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
14. San Jose State Univ., CA (United States)
15. Durham Univ. (United Kingdom)
16. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
17. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
18. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland); Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
19. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
20. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
21. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
22. Federal Univ. of ABC, Santo Andre, SP (Brazil)
23. Chungnam National Univ., Daejon (Korea, Republic of)
24. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
25. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
26. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst.; Yonsei Univ., Seoul (Korea, Republic of). Institute of Physics and Applied Physics (IPAP)
27. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
28. Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
29. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
30. Univ. College, London (United Kingdom)
31. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

With the advent of a new generation of neutrino experiments which leverage high-intensity neutrino beams for precision measurements, it is timely to explore physics topics beyond the standard neutrino-related physics. Given that the realm of beyond the standard model (BSM) physics has been mostly sought at high-energy regimes at colliders, such as the LHC at CERN, the exploration of BSM physics in neutrino experiments will enable complementary measurements at the energy regimes that balance that of the LHC. This is in concert with new ideas for high-intensity beams for fixed target and beam-dump experiments world-wide, e.g., those at CERN. The combination of the high intensity proton beam facilities and massive detectors for precision neutrino oscillation parameter measurements and for CP violation phase measurements will help make BSM physics reachable even in low energy regimes in accelerator based experiments. Large mass detectors with highly precise tracking and energy measurements, excellent timing resolution, and low energy thresholds will enable searches for BSM phenomena from cosmogenic origin, as well. Therefore, it is conceivable that BSM topics in the next generation neutrino experiments could be the dominant physics topics in the foreseeable future, as the precision of the neutrino oscillation parameter and CPV measurements continues to improve. In this spirit, this white paper provides a review of the current landscape of BSM theory in neutrino experiments in two selected areas of the BSM topics - dark matter and neutrino related BSM - and summarizes the current results from existing neutrino experiments to set benchmarks for both theory and experiment. This paper then provides a review of upcoming neutrino experiments throughout the next 10 - 15 year time scale and their capabilities to set the foundation for potential reach in BSM physics in the two aforementioned themes.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1556972
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-FN-1079-T; arXiv:1907.08311; 1744606; TRN: US2000076
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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