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Extricating New Physics Scenarios at DUNE with High Energy Beams
M. MasudM. BishaiPoonam Mehtasubject
0301 basic medicineParticle physicsPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsPhysics beyond the Standard ModelFOS: Physical scienceslcsh:MedicineArticleHigh Energy Physics - Experiment03 medical and health sciencesHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)0302 clinical medicineHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Deep Underground Neutrino ExperimentNeutrino oscillationlcsh:SciencePhysicsMultidisciplinaryOscillationlcsh:RHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology030104 developmental biologyCP violationlcsh:QHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrino030217 neurology & neurosurgeryEnergy (signal processing)Beam (structure)description
The proposed Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) utilizes a wide-band on-axis tunable muon-(anti)neutrino beam with a baseline of 1300 km to search for CP violation with high precision. Given the long baseline, DUNE is also sensitive to effects due to non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) which can interfere with the standard 3-flavor oscillation paradigm. In this Letter, we exploit the tunability of the DUNE neutrino beam over a wide-range of energies and utilize a new theoretical metric to devise an experimental strategy for separating oscillation effects due to NSI from the standard 3-flavor oscillation scenario. Using our metric, we obtain an optimal combination of beam tunes and distribution of run times in neutrino and anti-neutrino modes that would enable DUNE to isolate new physics scenarios from the standard. To the best of our knowledge, our strategy is entirely new and has not been reported elsewhere.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-27 |