Non-Standard neutrino interactions and neutral gauge bosons
Julian Heeck, Manfred Lindner, Werner Rodejohann, Stefan Vogl
SciPost Phys. 6, 038 (2019) · published 27 March 2019
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.6.3.038
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Abstract
We investigate Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions (NSI) arising from a flavor-sensitive $Z'$ boson of a new $U(1)'$ symmetry. We compare the limits from neutrino oscillations, coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering, and $Z'$ searches at different beam and collider experiments for a variety of straightforward anomaly-free $U(1)'$ models generated by linear combinations of $B-L$ and lepton-family-number differences $L_\alpha-L_\beta$. Depending on the flavor structure of those models it is easily possible to avoid NSI signals in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments or change the relative importance of the various experimental searches. We also point out that kinetic $Z$-$Z'$ mixing gives vanishing NSI in long-baseline experiments if a direct coupling between the $U(1)'$ gauge boson and matter is absent. In contrast, $Z$-$Z'$ mass mixing generates such NSI, which in turn means that there is a Higgs multiplet charged under both the Standard Model and the new $U(1)'$ symmetry.
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Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 2 Julian Heeck,
- 3 Manfred Lindner,
- 3 Werner Rodejohann,
- 3 Stefan Vogl
- 1 Université Libre de Bruxelles [ULB]
- 2 University of California, Irvine [UCI]
- 3 Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik / Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics [MPIK]