Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-06-08
Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 033012
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
10 pages, 3 figures; noticed typos corrected, results unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.033012
The SuperKamiokande atmospheric neutrino measurements leave substantial room for nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter in the nu_e- nu_tau sector. Large values of the NSI couplings are accommodated if the vacuum oscillation parameters are changed from their standard values. Short and medium baseline neutrino beams can break this degeneracy by measuring the true vacuum oscillation parameters with the muon neutrino disappearance mode, for which the matter effects are negligible or subdominant. These experiments can also search for the nu_e-nu_tau flavor changing effects directly, by looking for nu_mu->nu_e conversion caused by the intervening matter. We discuss both of these methods for the case of MINOS. We find that, while the present MINOS data on nu_mu disappearance induce only minor changes on the constraints on the NSI parameters, the situation will improve markedly with the planned increase of the statistics by an order of magnitude. In that case, the precision will be enough to distinguish certain presently allowed NSI scenarios from the no-NSI case. NSI per quark of about 10% the size of the standard weak interaction could give a nu_mu - nu_e conversion probability of the order ~ 10^{-2}, measurable by MINOS in the same high statistics scenario. In this nu_mu - nu_e channel, the small effects of NSI could be comparable or larger than the vacuum contribution of the small angle theta_{13}. The expected theta_{13} bound at MINOS should be more properly interpreted as a bound in the theta_{13}-NSI parameter space.
Friedland Alexander
Lunardini Cecilia
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