Non-standard interactions using the OPERA experiment

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dc.creatorBlennow, Mattias
dc.creatorMeloni, Davide
dc.creatorOhlsson, Tommy
dc.creatorTerranova, Francesco
dc.creatorWesterberg, Mattias
dc.date2008-04-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:49:56Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:49:56Z
dc.descriptionWe investigate the implications of non-standard interactions on neutrino oscillations in the OPERA experiment. In particular, we study the non-standard interaction parameter $ε_{μτ}$. We show that the OPERA experiment has a unique opportunity to reduce the allowed region for this parameter compared with other experiments such as the MINOS experiment, mostly due to the higher neutrino energies in the CNGS beam compared to the NuMI beam. We find that OPERA is mainly sensitive to a combination of standard and non-standard parameters and that a resulting anti-resonance effect could suppress the expected number of events. Furthermore, we show that running OPERA for five years each with neutrinos and anti-neutrinos would help in resolving the degeneracy between the standard parameters and $ε_{μτ}$. This scenario is significantly better than the scenario with a simple doubling of the statistics by running with neutrinos for ten years.
dc.description15 pages, 5 figures, REVTeX4
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2744
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2744
dc.identifierEur.Phys.J.C56:529-536,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0683-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/203410
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleNon-standard interactions using the OPERA experiment
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