A global analysis strategy to resolve neutrino NSI degeneracies with scattering and oscillation data Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract Neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) with the first generation of standard model fermions can span a parameter space of large dimension and exhibit degeneracies that cannot be broken by a single class of experiment. Oscillation experiments, together with neutrino scattering experiments, can merge their observations into a highly informational dataset to combat this problem. We consider combining neutrino-electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering data from the Borexino and COHERENT experiments, including a projection for the upcoming coherent neutrino scattering measurement at the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. We extend the reach of these data sets over the NSI parameter space with projections for neutrino scattering at a future multi-ton scale dark matter detector and future oscillation measurements from atmospheric neutrinos at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). In order to perform this global anal- ysis, we adopt a novel approach using the copula method, utilized to combine posterior information from different experiments with a large, generalized set of NSI parameters. We find that the contributions from DUNE and a dark matter detector to the Borexino and COHERENT fits can improve constraints on the electron and quark NSI parameters by up to a factor of 2 to 3, even when relatively many NSI parameters are left free to vary in the analysis.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

altmetric score

  • 2.35

author list (cited authors)

  • Dutta, B., Lang, R. F., Liao, S., Sinha, S., Strigari, L., & Thompson, A.

citation count

  • 23

complete list of authors

  • Dutta, Bhaskar||Lang, Rafael F||Liao, Shu||Sinha, Samiran||Strigari, Louis||Thompson, Adrian

publication date

  • September 2020