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Low-energy neutrino-electron scattering as a standard model probe: The potential of LENA as case study

E. A. Garcés* and O. G. Miranda†

M. A. Tórtola‡ and J. W. F. Valle§

  • Departamento de Física, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 17-740, 07000, Mexico Distrito Federal, Mexico

  • AHEP Group, Institut de Física Corpuscular—C.S.I.C./Universitat de València Edificio Institutos de Paterna, Apartado 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain

  • *egarces@fis.cinvestav.mx
  • †Omar.Miranda@fis.cinvestav.mx
  • ‡mariam@ific.uv.es
  • §valle@ific.uv.es
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Phys. Rev. D 85, 073006 – Published 6 April, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.073006

Abstract

Several proposals for studying neutrinos with large detectors are currently under discussion. We suggest that they could provide a precise measurement of the electroweak mixing angle as well as a probe for new physics, such as nonstandard neutrino interactions, and the electroweak gauge structure. We illustrate this explicitly for the case of the LENA proposal, either with an artificial radioactive source or by using the solar neutrino flux.

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 073006– Published 6 April, 2012
  • Received 22 December 2011

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