Study of nonstandard neutrino interactions with atmospheric neutrino data in Super-Kamiokande I and II

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作者
Mitsuka, G. [2 ]
Abe, K. [1 ]
Hayato, Y. [1 ,3 ]
Iida, T. [1 ]
Ikeda, M. [1 ]
Kameda, J. [1 ]
Koshio, Y. [1 ]
Miura, M. [1 ]
Moriyama, S. [1 ,3 ]
Nakahata, M. [1 ,3 ]
Nakayama, S. [1 ]
Obayashi, Y. [1 ]
Sekiya, H. [1 ]
Shiozawa, M. [1 ,3 ]
Suzuki, Y. [1 ,3 ]
Takeda, A. [1 ]
Takenaga, Y. [1 ]
Takeuchi, Y. [1 ,3 ]
Ueno, K. [1 ]
Ueshima, K. [1 ]
Watanabe, H. [1 ]
Yamada, S. [1 ]
Hazama, S. [2 ]
Higuchi, I. [2 ]
Ishihara, C. [2 ]
Kaji, H. [2 ]
Kajita, T. [2 ,3 ]
Kaneyuki, K. [2 ,3 ]
Nishino, H. [2 ]
Okumura, K. [2 ]
Tanimoto, N. [2 ]
Dufour, F. [4 ]
Kearns, E. [3 ,4 ]
Litos, M. [4 ]
Raaf, J. L. [4 ]
Stone, J. L. [3 ,4 ]
Sulak, L. R. [4 ]
Goldhaber, M. [5 ]
Bays, K. [6 ,7 ]
Cravens, J. P. [6 ,7 ]
Kropp, W. R. [6 ,7 ]
Mine, S. [6 ,7 ]
Regis, C. [6 ,7 ]
Smy, M. B. [3 ,6 ,7 ]
Sobel, H. W. [3 ,6 ,7 ]
Vagins, M. R. [3 ,6 ,7 ]
Ganezer, K. S. [8 ]
Hill, J. [8 ]
Keig, W. E. [8 ]
Jang, J. S. [9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Kamioka Observ, Gifu 5061205, Japan
[2] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Res Ctr Cosm Neutrinos, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[3] Univ Tokyo, Inst Phys & Math Universe, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[4] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[5] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[6] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[7] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[8] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Dept Phys, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[9] Chonnam Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Kwangju 500757, South Korea
[10] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[11] Fukuoka Inst Technol, Jr Coll, Fukuoka 8110295, Japan
[12] Gifu Univ, Dept Phys, Gifu 5011193, Japan
[13] Univ Hawaii, Dept Phys & Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[14] Kanagawa Univ, Dept Engn, Div Phys, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2218686, Japan
[15] High Energy Accelerator Res Org KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[16] Kobe Univ, Dept Phys, Kobe, Hyogo 6578501, Japan
[17] Kyoto Univ, Dept Phys, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[18] Miyagi Univ Educ, Dept Phys, Sendai, Miyagi 9800845, Japan
[19] Nagoya Univ, Solar Terr Environm Lab, Nagoya, Aichi 4648602, Japan
[20] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[21] Niigata Univ, Dept Phys, Niigata 9502181, Japan
[22] Okayama Univ, Dept Phys, Okayama 7008530, Japan
[23] Osaka Univ, Dept Phys, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
[24] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[25] Shizuoka Univ Welf, Dept Informat Social Welf, Yaizu, Shizuoka 4258611, Japan
[26] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Phys, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[27] Tokai Univ, Dept Phys, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 2591292, Japan
[28] Univ Tokyo, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[29] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[30] Warsaw Univ, Inst Expt Phys, PL-00681 Warsaw, Poland
[31] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2011年 / 84卷 / 11期
基金
美国能源部; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
OSCILLATIONS; DECAY;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.113008
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In this paper we study nonstandard neutrino interactions as an example of physics beyond the standard model using atmospheric neutrino data collected during the Super-Kamiokande I (1996-2001) and II (2003-2005) periods. We focus on flavor-changing-neutral-currents (FCNC), which allow neutrino flavor transitions via neutral current interactions, and effects which violate lepton nonuniversality and give rise to different neutral-current interaction-amplitudes for different neutrino flavors. We obtain a limit on the FCNC coupling parameter, epsilon(mu tau), vertical bar epsilon(mu tau)vertical bar < 1.1 x 10(-2) at 90% C. L. and various constraints on other FCNC parameters as a function of the nonuniversality coupling, epsilon(ee). We find no evidence of nonstandard neutrino interactions in the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric data.
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