Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE
Abstract
We discover the capabilities of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to measure ντ charged-current interactions and the associated oscillation probability P(νμ→ντ) at its far detector, concentrating on how such results can be used to probe neutrino properties and interactions. DUNE has the potential to identify significantly more ντ events than all existing experiments and can use this data sample to nontrivially test the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm by providing complementary measurements to those from the νe-appearance and νμ-disappearance channels. We also discuss the sensitivity of the ντ-appearance channel to several hypotheses for the physics that may lurk beyond the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm: a nonunitary lepton mixing matrix, the 3+1 light neutrinos hypothesis, and the existence of nonstandard neutral-current neutrino interactions. Throughout, we also consider the relative benefits of the proposed high-energy tune of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) beam line.
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- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1532795
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1545101
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1904.07265; FERMILAB-PUB-19-146-T; NUHEP-TH/-19-04
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 016004
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010143; AC02-07CH11359; 2016/00272-9; 2017/12904-2; 2014/05133-1, 2014/19164-6; 2015/16809-9
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D.
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
de Gouvêa, André, Kelly, Kevin J., Stenico, G. V., and Pasquini, Pedro. Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016004.
de Gouvêa, André, Kelly, Kevin J., Stenico, G. V., & Pasquini, Pedro. Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016004
de Gouvêa, André, Kelly, Kevin J., Stenico, G. V., and Pasquini, Pedro. Mon .
"Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016004.
@article{osti_1532795,
title = {Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE},
author = {de Gouvêa, André and Kelly, Kevin J. and Stenico, G. V. and Pasquini, Pedro},
abstractNote = {We discover the capabilities of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to measure ντ charged-current interactions and the associated oscillation probability P(νμ→ντ) at its far detector, concentrating on how such results can be used to probe neutrino properties and interactions. DUNE has the potential to identify significantly more ντ events than all existing experiments and can use this data sample to nontrivially test the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm by providing complementary measurements to those from the νe-appearance and νμ-disappearance channels. We also discuss the sensitivity of the ντ-appearance channel to several hypotheses for the physics that may lurk beyond the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm: a nonunitary lepton mixing matrix, the 3+1 light neutrinos hypothesis, and the existence of nonstandard neutral-current neutrino interactions. Throughout, we also consider the relative benefits of the proposed high-energy tune of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) beam line.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016004},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
number = 1,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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FIG. 1: Migration matrix for hadronically decaying τ leptons produced via ντ charged-current interactions. The assumed bias is 45% and the resolution is 25%, see text for details. No migration exists below E$^{true}_{ν}$ ≈ 3.4 GeV, below which the scattering process is kinematically forbidden.
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