Search for CP -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment

Acero, M.A.; Acharya, B.; Adamson, P.; Aliaga, L.; Anfimov, N.; Antoshkin, A.; Arrieta-Diaz, E.; Asquith, L.; Aurisano, A.; Back, A.; Balashov, N.; Baldi, P.; Bambah, B.A.; Bat, A.; Bays, K.; Bernstein, R.; Bezerra, T.J.C.; Bhatnagar, V.; Bhattarai, D.; Bhuyan, B.; Bian, J.; Booth, A.C.; Bowles, R.; Brahma, B.; Bromberg, C.; Buchanan, N.; Butkevich, A.; Calvez, S.; Carroll, T.J.; Catano-Mur, E.; Cesar, J.P.; Chatla, A.; Chaudhary, S.; Chirco, R.; Choudhary, B.C.; Christensen, A.; Cicala, M.F.; Coan, T.E.; Cooleybeck, A.; Cortes-Parra, C.; Coveyou, D.; Cremonesi, L.; Davies, G.S.; Derwent, P.F.; Djurcic, Z.; Dolce, M.; Doyle, D.; Dueñas Tonguino, D.; Dukes, E.C.; Dye, A.; Ehrlich, R.; Ewart, E.; Filip, P.; Franc, J.; Frank, M.J.; Gallagher, H.R.; Gao, F.; Giri, A.; Gomes, R.A.; Goodman, M.C.; Groh, M.; Group, R.; Habig, A.; Hakl, F.; Hartnell, J.; Hatcher, R.; He, M.; Heller, K.; Hewes, V.; Himmel, A.; Ivaneev, Y.; Ivanova, A.; Jargowsky, B.; Jarosz, J.; Johnson, C.; Judah, M.; Kakorin, I.; Kaplan, D.M.; Kalitkina, A.; Kleykamp, J.; Klimov, O.; Koerner, L.W.; Kolupaeva, L.; Kralik, R.; Kuruppu, C.D.; Kus, V.; Lackey, T.; Lang, K.; Lesmeister, J.; Lister, A.; Liu, J.; Lock, J.A.; Lokajicek, M.; Macmahon, M.; Magill, S.; Mann, W.A.; Manoharan, M.T.; Manrique Plata, M.; Marshak, M.L.; Martinez-Casales, M.; Matveev, V.; Mehta, B.; Messier, M.D.; Meyer, H.; Miao, T.; Mikola, V.; Miller, W.H.; Mishra, S.; Mishra, S.R.; Mislivec, A.; Mohanta, R.; Moren, A.; Morozova, A.; Mu, W.; Mualem, L.; Muether, M.; Mulder, K.; Myers, D.; Naples, D.; Nath, A.; Nelleri, S.; Nelson, J.K.; Nichol, R.; Niner, E.; Norman, A.; Norrick, A.; Nosek, T.; Oh, H.; Olshevskiy, A.; Olson, T.; Ozkaynak, M.; Pal, A.; Paley, J.; Panda, L.; Patterson, R.B.; Pawloski, G.; Petrova, O.; Petti, R.; Prais, L.R.; Rafique, A.; Raj, V.; Rajaoalisoa, M.; Ramson, B.; Ravelhofer, M.; Rebel, B.; Roy, P.; Samoylov, O.; Sanchez, M.C.; Sánchez Falero, S.; Shanahan, P.; Sharma, P.; Shmakov, A.; Sheshukov, A.; Shukla, S.; Singha, D.K.; Shorrock, W.; Singh, I.; Singh, P.; Singh, V.; Smith, E.; Smolik, J.; Snopok, P.; Solomey, N.; Sousa, A.; Soustruznik, K.; Strait, M.; Suter, L.; Sutton, A.; Sutton, K.; Swain, S.; Sweeney, C.; Sztuc, A.; Tapia Oregui, B.; Tas, P.; Thakore, T.; Thomas, J.; Tiras, E.; Torun, Y.; Tripathi, J.; Trokan-Tenorio, J.; Urheim, J.; Vahle, P.; Vallari, Z.; Vasel, J.; Villamil, J.D.; Vockerodt, K.J.; Vrba, T.; Wallbank, M.; Wetstein, M.; Whittington, D.; Wickremasinghe, D.A.; Wieber, T.; Wolcott, J.; Wrobel, M.; Wu, S.; Wu, W.; Xiao, Y.; Yaeggy, B.; Yahaya, A.; Yankelevich, A.; Yonehara, K.; Yu, Y.; Zadorozhnyy, S.; Zalesak, J.; Zwaska, R.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.133.201802

Search for CP -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment

Acero M., Acharya B., Adamson P., Aliaga L., Anfimov N., Antoshkin A., ...More

Physical Review Letters, vol.133, no.20, 2024 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 133 Issue: 20
Publication Date: 2024
Doi Number: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.201802
Journal Name: Physical Review Letters
Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, INSPEC, zbMATH, DIALNET, Nature Index
Erciyes University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This Letter reports a search for charge-parity (CP) symmetry violating nonstandard interactions (NSI) of neutrinos with matter using the NOvA Experiment, and examines their effects on the determination of the standard oscillation parameters. Data from νμ(ν¯μ)→νμ(ν¯μ) and νμ(ν¯μ)→νe(ν¯e) oscillation channels are used to measure the effect of the NSI parameters Iµeμ and Iµeτ. With 90% CL the magnitudes of the NSI couplings are constrained to be |Iµeμ| 0.3 and |Iµeτ| 0.4. A degeneracy at |Iµeτ|≈1.8 is reported, and we observe that the presence of NSI limits sensitivity to the standard CP phase δCP.