Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions and Neutral Gauge Bosons

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 As Contributors: Julian Heeck Preprint link: scipost_201812_00042v3 Date accepted: 2019-03-22 Date submitted: 2019-03-15 Submitted by: Heeck, Julian Submitted to: SciPost Physics Discipline: Physics Subject area: High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology Approach: Theoretical

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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Published as SciPost Phys. 6, 038 (2019)