Non-Standard Interactions and Light Z' Bosons from CEvNS Data at CONUS+: A Statistical Analysis

Abstract

Motivated by the recent results reported by the CONUS$+$ collaboration, in which coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\hat{I}½\mathcal{N}$S) with reactor antineutrinos was observed for the first time, we perform a statistical analysis to constrain possible low-energy scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The models considered include effective non-standard vector interactions of neutrinos (NSI) and generalized neutrino interactions (NGI) by light vector bosons within the $E_6$ and $U(1{)}_{L_e-L_{\hat{I}}¼}$ frameworks.

23 pages, 6 figures