Probing Non-Standard Couplings of Neutrinos at the Borexino Detector

Details Probing Non-Standard Couplings of Neutrinos at the Borexino Detector Probing Non-Standard Couplings of Neutrinos at the Borexino Detector

2001-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0111138v2

Nucl.Phys. B638 (2002) 62-80

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

17 LaTeX pages, 15 postscript figures, uses epsfig.sty. More extended discussion about the spectral deformation for both Super

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00476-5

The present experimental status does not exclude weak-strength non-standard interactions of neutrinos with electrons. These interactions can be revealed in solar neutrino experiments. Our discussion covers several aspects related to this issue. First, we perform an analysis of the Super Kamiokande and SNO data to investigate their sensitivity to such interactions. In particular, we show that the \nu_e oscillation into sterile neutrinos can be still allowed if \nu_e has extra interactions of the proper strength. Second, we suggest that the Borexino detector can provide good signatures for these non-standard interactions. Indeed, in Borexino the shape of the recoil electron spectrum from the \nu e \to \nu e scattering essentially does not depend on the solar neutrino conversion details, since most of the signal comes from the mono-energetic ^7Be neutrinos. Hence, the partial conversion of solar \nu_e into a a nearly equal mixture of \nu_\mu and \nu_\tau, as is indicated by the atmospheric neutrino data, offers the chance to test extra interactions of \nu_\tau, or of \nu_e itself.

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