How to Identify Different New Neutrino Oscillation Physics Scenarios at DUNE

Abstract

Next generation neutrino oscillation experiments are expected to measure the remaining oscillation parameters with very good precision. They will have unprecedented capabilities to search for new physics that modify oscillations. DUNE, with its broad band beam, good particle identification, and relatively high energies will provide an excellent environment to search for new physics. If deviations from the standard three-flavor oscillation picture are seen however, it is crucial to know which new physics scenario is found so that it can be verified elsewhere and theoretically understood. We investigate several benchmark new physics scenarios by looking at existing long-baseline accelerator neutrino data from NOvA and T2K and determine at what sensitivity DUNE can differentiate among them. We consider sterile neutrinos and both vector and scalar non-standard neutrino interactions, all with new complex phases, the latter of which could conceivably provide absolute neutrino mass scale information. We find that, in many interesting cases, DUNE will have good model discrimination. We also perform a new fit to NOvA and T2K data with scalar NSI.

36 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables; comments welcome! v2: clarifying remarks added, matches published version

References in corpus (35)

• The Reactor Antineutrino Anomaly
• Statistical Significance of the Gallium Anomaly
• CP-violation from non-unitary leptonic mixing
• Sterile Neutrinos
• COHERENT constraints on nonstandard neutrino interactions
• Results from the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST)
• Parametrizing the lepton mixing matrix in terms of deviations from tri-bimaximal mixing
• Status of Oscillation plus Decay of Atmospheric and Long-Baseline Neutrinos
• On the most constraining cosmological neutrino mass bounds
• Neutrinophilic Non-Standard Interactions
• Neutrino Oscillations as a Probe of Light Scalar Dark Matter
• Inflation meets neutrinos
• TriMinimal Parametrization of the Neutrino Mixing Matrix
• Constraints on neutrino decay lifetime using long-baseline charged and neutral current data
• Snowmass White Paper: Beyond the Standard Model effects on Neutrino Flavor
• Shedding light on LMA-Dark solar neutrino solution by medium baseline reactor experiments: JUNO and RENO-50
• Imprints of CP violation induced by sterile neutrinos in T2K data
• On the Determination of Leptonic CP Violation and Neutrino Mass Ordering in Presence of Non-Standard Interactions: Present Status
• Visible Decay of Astrophysical Neutrinos at IceCube
• Testing sterile neutrino mixing with present and future solar neutrino data
• Capabilities of long-baseline experiments in the presence of a sterile neutrino
• Sizable NSI from the $SU(2{)}_L$ scalar doublet-singlet mixing and the implications in DUNE
• Sterile neutrinos beyond LSND at the Neutrino Factory
• Sterile neutrinos at the CNGS
• Constraints on flavor-dependent long range forces from solar neutrinos and KamLAND
• Sterile Neutrino Searches with MicroBooNE: Electron Neutrino Disappearance
• Exploring the effects of Scalar Non Standard Interactions on the CP violation sensitivity at DUNE
• New reactor data improves robustness of neutrino mass ordering determination
• Neutrino meets ultralight dark matter: $0\mathbf{\nu \beta \beta }$ decay and cosmology
• New oscillation and scattering constraints on the tau row matrix elements without assuming unitarity
• Minimal 3+2 sterile neutrino model at LBNE
• Imprints of scalar NSI on the CP-violation sensitivity using synergy among DUNE, T2HK and T2HKK
• Very Light Sterile Neutrinos at NOvA and T2K
• Non-standard neutrino interactions in light mediator models at reactor experiments
• Vector leptoquark $U_3$ and CP violation at T2K, NOvA experiments

Cited by in corpus (20)

• A Direct Detection View of the Neutrino NSI Landscape
• Sterile Neutrino Shape-shifting Caused by Dark Matter
• Non-standard neutrino interactions in light mediator models at reactor experiments
• Solar Neutrinos and the Strongest Oscillation Constraints on Scalar NSI
• Study of light sterile neutrino at the long-baseline experiment options at KM3NeT
• Improved sensitivities of ESS$\nu$SB from a two-detector fit
• Impact of scalar NSI on the neutrino mass ordering sensitivity at DUNE, HK and KNO
• Exploring new physics with DUNE high energy flux: the case of Lorentz Invariance Violation, Large Extra Dimensions and Long Range Forces
• Effect of spacetime geometry on neutrino oscillations
• Scalar NSI: A unique tool for constraining absolute neutrino masses via $\nu$-oscillations
• Analytic Neutrino Oscillation Probabilities
• Testing New Physics in Oscillations at a Neutrino Factory
• A Modern Look at the Oscillation Physics Case for a Neutrino Factory
• The effect of non-standard interactions and environmental decoherence at DUNE
• Sterile sector impacting the correlations and degeneracies among mixing parameters at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
• Impact of scalar NSI with off-diagonal parameters at DUNE and P2SO
• The Sensitivity of DUNE in Presence of Off-Diagonal Scalar NSI Parameters
• Probing Long-Range Forces in Neutrino Oscillations at the ESSnuSB Experiment
• Probing new physics scenarios using high energy events at NOvA far detector
• Probing neutrino-night-quark effective scalar interactions from neutrino masses