137 research outputs found
Lepton Flavor Violation in a Long Baseline Experiment
We evaluate the size of a coupling for a lepton flavor violating interaction
with neutrinos (nLFV) in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with
right-handed neutrinos (MSSMRN). It is expected that the nLFV interactions are
detected in a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. We here deal with
in
channel at a neutrino factory. First, we show the numerical study on
feasibility to observe such interaction and point out that we can search for
them with some oscillation channels. Next, we make a numerical calculation for
the size of the nLFV coupling in the framework of the MSSMRN. A long baseline
experiment is sensitive not only to the lepton mixings in the standard model
but also to new physics effect.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 6th
International Workshop on Neutrino Factory and Superbeams NuFact04,
Osaka,Japan, July 26 - August 1, 200
Discovery reach for non-standard interactions in a neutrino factory
We study the discovery reach for Non-Standard Interactions (NSIs) in a
neutrino factory experiment. After giving a theoretical, but model-independent,
overview of the most relevant classes of NSIs, we present detailed numerical
results for some of them. Our simulations take into account matter effects,
uncertainties in the neutrino oscillation parameters, systematical errors,
parameter correlations, and degeneracies. We perform scans of the parameter
space, and show that a neutrino factory has excellent prospects of detecting
NSIs originating from new physics at around 1 TeV, which is a scale favored by
many extensions of the standard model. It will also turn out that the discovery
reach depends strongly on the standard and non-standard CP violating phases in
the Lagrangian.Comment: RevTeX 4, 10 pages, 5 figures, extended discussion of systematical
errors and of existing bounds, matches published versio
Neutrino factory optimization for non-standard interactions
We study the optimization of a neutrino factory with respect to non-standard
neutral current neutrino interactions, and compare the results to those
obtained without non-standard interactions. We discuss the muon energy,
baselines, and oscillation channels as degrees of freedom. Our conclusions are
based on both analytical calculations and on a full numerical simulation of the
neutrino factory setup proposed by the international design study (IDS-NF). We
consider all possible non-standard parameters, and include their complex
phases. We identify the impact of the different parameters on the golden,
silver, and disappearance channels. We come to the conclusion that, even in the
presence of non-standard interactions, the performance of the neutrino factory
hardly profits from a silver channel detector, unless the muon energy is
significantly increased compared to the IDS-NF setup. Apart from the
dispensable silver channel detector, we demonstrate that the IDS-NF setup is
close to optimal even if non-standard interactions are considered. We find that
one very long baseline is a key component in the search for non-standard
interactions, in particular for |\epsilon^m_{\mu\tau}| and
|\epsilon^m_{\tau\tau}|.Comment: LaTeX, 30 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
Effective field theory approach to , and with third generation couplings
LHCb reported anomalies in , and
. Furthermore, BaBar, BELLE and LHCb
found hints for the violation of lepton flavour universality violation in
. In this note we reexamine
these decays and their correlations to using gauge
invariant dim-6 operators. For the numerical analysis we focus on scenarios in
which new physics couples, in the interaction eigenbasis, to third generation
quarks and lepton only. We conclude that such a setup can explain the data simultaneously with for small mixing angles in
the lepton sector (of the order of ) and very small mixing angles in
the quark sector (smaller than ). In these region of parameter space
and can be order . Possible UV
completions are briefly discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Proton decay and light sterile neutrinos
Within the standard model, non-renormalizable operators at dimension six
() violate baryon and lepton number by one unit and thus lead to proton
decay. Here, we point out that the proton decay mode with a charged pion and
missing energy can be a characteristic signature of operators containing
a light sterile neutrino, if it is not accompanied by the standard
final state. We discuss this effect first at the level of effective operators
and then provide a concrete model with new physics at the TeV scale, in which
the lightness of the active neutrinos and the stability of the proton are
related.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, published versio
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