Physics with beam tau-neutrino appearance at DUNE

André de Gouvêa (Northwestern University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA) ; Kevin J. Kelly (Northwestern University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Post Office Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA) ; G. V. Stenico (Northwestern University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin-UNICAMP, 13083-859, Campinas, SP, Brazil) ; Pedro Pasquini (Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Post Office Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA; Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin-UNICAMP, 13083-859, Campinas, SP, Brazil)

We explore the capabilities of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) to measure ντ charged-current interactions and the associated oscillation probability P(νμντ) at its far detector, concentrating on how such results can be used to probe neutrino properties and interactions. DUNE has the potential to identify significantly more ντ events than all existing experiments and can use this data sample to nontrivially test the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm by providing complementary measurements to those from the νe-appearance and νμ-disappearance channels. We further discuss the sensitivity of the ντ-appearance channel to several hypotheses for the physics that may lurk beyond the three-massive-neutrinos paradigm: a nonunitary lepton mixing matrix, the 3+1 light neutrinos hypothesis, and the existence of nonstandard neutral-current neutrino interactions. Throughout, we also consider the relative benefits of the proposed high-energy tune of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) beam line.

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Published on:
10 July 2019
Publisher:
APS
Published in:
Physical Review D , Volume 100 (2019)
Issue 1
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.016004
arXiv:
1904.07265
Copyrights:
Published by the American Physical Society
Licence:
CC-BY-4.0

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