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Title: Accelerator and reactor complementarity in coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D.
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  1. Sam Houston State Univ., Huntsville, TX (United States)
  2. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  3. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)

We study the complementarity between accelerator and reactor coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering (CE ν NS) experiments for constraining new physics in the form of nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI). First, considering just data from the recent observation by the Coherent experiment, we explore interpretive degeneracies that emerge when activating either two or four unknown NSI parameters. Next, we demonstrate that simultaneous treatment of reactor and accelerator experiments, each employing at least two distinct target materials, can break a degeneracy between up and down flavor-diagonal NSI terms that survives analysis of neutrino oscillation experiments. Considering four flavor-diagonal (ee/μμ) up- and down-type NSI parameters, we find that all terms can be measured with high local precision (to a width as small as ~ 5 % in Fermi units) by next-generation experiments, although discrete reflection ambiguities persist.

Research Organization:
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
sc0010813; de-sc0010813
OSTI ID:
1420194
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1498828
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D., Vol. 97, Issue 3; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 38 works
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