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Alleviating the present tension between T2K and NO ν A with nonstandard neutrino interactions

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Since neutrino oscillation was observed, several experiments have been built to measure its parameters. NuMI Off-axis ν e Appearance ( NO ν A ) and Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) are two long-baseline experiments dedicated to measuring mainly the mixing angle θ 23 , the charge-parity ( C P ) conjugation phase δ CP , and the mass ordering. However, there is a tension in current data. The T2K allowed region is in conflict with the region allowed by NO ν A . We propose a nonstandard charged current interaction (CC-NSI) in neutrino production to relieve this tension. The CC-NSI is computed through quantum field theory formalism, where we derive perturbative analytical formulae considering CC-NSI in the pion decay. Within this new approach, we can alleviate NO ν A and T2K tension for CC-NSI complex parameters of order 10 − 3 . We show the new phase has a degeneracy to the Dirac C P phase of the form δ CP ± ϕ = 1.5 π , being a possible source of violation of charge-parity symmetry.
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4416176325
FWCI: 0.947
Cites: 61
Cited by: 2
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