On T violation in non-standard neutrino oscillation scenarios

Abstract

We discuss time reversal (T) violation in neutrino oscillations in generic new physics scenarios. A general parameterization is adopted to describe flavour evolution, which captures a wide range of new physics effects, including non-standard neutrino interactions, non-unitarity, and sterile neutrinos in a model-independent way. In this framework, we discuss general properties of time reversal in the context of long-baseline neutrino experiments. Special attention is given to fundamental versus environmental T violation in the presence of generic new physics. We point out that T violation in the disappearance channel requires new physics which modifies flavour mixing at neutrino production and detection. We use time-dependent perturbation theory to study the effect of non-constant matter density along the neutrino path, and quantify the effects for the well studied baselines of the DUNE, T2HK, and T2HKK projects. The material presented here provides the phenomenological background for the model-independent test of T violation proposed by us in Ref. [1].

arXiv comment10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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