Atmospheric neutrinos as probes of neutrino-matter interactions

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2004-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0408264v2

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 111301

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages, 2 figures; updated to match the journal version (Phys. Rev. D70, 111301(R) (2004))

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.111301

Neutrino oscillation experiments provide a unique tool for probing neutrino-matter interactions, especially those involving the tau neutrino. We describe the sensitivity of the present atmospheric neutrino data to these interactions in the framework of a three-flavor analysis. Compared to the two-flavor nu_mu-nu_tau analyses, we find qualitatively new features, in particular, that large non-standard interactions, comparable in strength to those in the Standard Model, can be consistent with the data. The existence of such interactions could imply a smaller value of the neutrino mixing angle and larger value of the mass-squared splitting than in the case of standard interactions only. This and other effects of non-standard interactions may be tested in the next several years by MINOS, KamLAND and solar neutrino experiments.

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