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Testing nonstandard neutrino matter interactions in atmospheric neutrino propagation

Animesh Chatterjee1,*, Poonam Mehta2,†, Debajyoti Choudhury3,‡, and Raj Gandhi4,§

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
  • 2School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
  • 3Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
  • 4Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Allahabad 211 019, India

  • *animesh.chatterjee@uta.edu
  • †pm@jnu.ac.in
  • ‡debchou@physics.du.ac.in
  • §raj@hri.res.in
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Phys. Rev. D 93, 093017 – Published 26 May, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.093017

Abstract

We study the effects of nonstandard interactions on the oscillation pattern of atmospheric neutrinos. We use neutrino oscillograms as our main tool to infer the role of nonstandard interactions (NSI) parameters at the probability level in the energy range, E∈[1,20]  GeV and zenith angle range, cosθ∈[−1,0]. We compute the event rates for atmospheric neutrino events in presence of NSI parameters in the energy range E∈[1,10]  GeV for two different detector configurations—a magnetized iron calorimeter and an unmagnetized liquid argon time projection chamber which have different sensitivities to NSI parameters due to their complementary characteristics.

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Phys. Rev. D 93, 093017– Published 26 May, 2016
  • Received 1 October 2015

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