Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess

Bertuzzo, Enrico; Jana, Sudip; Machado, Pedro A.  N.; Zukanovich Funchal, Renata

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.241801

Title: Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess

Journal Article · 12 December 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.241801 · OSTI ID:1485529

Bertuzzo, Enrico ^[1]; Jana, Sudip ^[2]; Machado, Pedro A. N. ^[3]; Zukanovich Funchal, Renata ^[1]

Instituto de Física Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

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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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; SC0016013

OSTI ID:: 1485529

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1472108

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1807.09877; FERMILAB-PUB-18-336-T; OSU-HEP-18-04; PRLTAO; 1683968

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 24; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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