Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess
Abstract
We present a novel framework that provides an explanation to the long-standing excess of electron-like events in the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab. We suggest a new dark sector containing a dark neutrino and a dark gauge boson, both with masses between a few tens and a few hundreds of MeV. Dark neutrinos are produced via neutrino-nucleus scattering, followed by their decay to the dark gauge boson, which in turn gives rise to electron-like events. This mechanism provides an excellent fit to MiniBooNE energy spectra and angular distributions.
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- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1485529
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1472108
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1807.09877; FERMILAB-PUB-18-336-T; OSU-HEP-18-04
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 241801
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- SC0016013; AC02-07CH11359
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 121 Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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Bertuzzo, Enrico, Jana, Sudip, Machado, Pedro A. N., and Zukanovich Funchal, Renata. Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.241801.
Bertuzzo, Enrico, Jana, Sudip, Machado, Pedro A. N., & Zukanovich Funchal, Renata. Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.241801
Bertuzzo, Enrico, Jana, Sudip, Machado, Pedro A. N., and Zukanovich Funchal, Renata. Wed .
"Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.241801.
@article{osti_1485529,
title = {Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess},
author = {Bertuzzo, Enrico and Jana, Sudip and Machado, Pedro A. N. and Zukanovich Funchal, Renata},
abstractNote = {We present a novel framework that provides an explanation to the long-standing excess of electron-like events in the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab. We suggest a new dark sector containing a dark neutrino and a dark gauge boson, both with masses between a few tens and a few hundreds of MeV. Dark neutrinos are produced via neutrino-nucleus scattering, followed by their decay to the dark gauge boson, which in turn gives rise to electron-like events. This mechanism provides an excellent fit to MiniBooNE energy spectra and angular distributions.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.241801},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 24,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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FIG. 1.: Contributions to the cross section that in our model gives rise to MiniBooNE’s excess of electronlike events.
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