Looping Around Neutrino Charge Radius at Ultra-Near Reactor Experiments

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Main Authors: Brdar, Vedran, Leite, Leonardo J. Ferreira, Parker, George A., Xu, Xun-Jie
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Published: 2024
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author Brdar, Vedran
Leite, Leonardo J. Ferreira
Parker, George A.
Xu, Xun-Jie
author_facet Brdar, Vedran
Leite, Leonardo J. Ferreira
Parker, George A.
Xu, Xun-Jie
contents We scrutinize the potential of upcoming ultra-near reactor neutrino experiments to detect radiative corrections in the elastic neutrino-electron scattering channel, focusing on the JUNO-TAO and CLOUD detectors, which employ advanced scintillator detection technologies. Previous reactor experiments have already constrained the electron neutrino charge radius, which is a neutrino property associated with a certain subset of the total radiative corrections, and have achieved limits that are only about an order of magnitude away from the Standard Model prediction. Our study demonstrates that JUNO-TAO and CLOUD could discover the neutrino charge radius in the near future, considering the established treatment of the charge radius. However, we show that it is necessary to go beyond this standard treatment. By including the complete set of one-loop level radiative corrections, we find a partial cancellation with the charge radius effect, reducing the experimental sensitivity to this quantity. Nevertheless, JUNO-TAO and CLOUD still have the potential to achieve a $5σ$ discovery but over longer timescales within a reasonable operational timeframe.
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spellingShingle Looping Around Neutrino Charge Radius at Ultra-Near Reactor Experiments
Brdar, Vedran
Leite, Leonardo J. Ferreira
Parker, George A.
Xu, Xun-Jie
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
We scrutinize the potential of upcoming ultra-near reactor neutrino experiments to detect radiative corrections in the elastic neutrino-electron scattering channel, focusing on the JUNO-TAO and CLOUD detectors, which employ advanced scintillator detection technologies. Previous reactor experiments have already constrained the electron neutrino charge radius, which is a neutrino property associated with a certain subset of the total radiative corrections, and have achieved limits that are only about an order of magnitude away from the Standard Model prediction. Our study demonstrates that JUNO-TAO and CLOUD could discover the neutrino charge radius in the near future, considering the established treatment of the charge radius. However, we show that it is necessary to go beyond this standard treatment. By including the complete set of one-loop level radiative corrections, we find a partial cancellation with the charge radius effect, reducing the experimental sensitivity to this quantity. Nevertheless, JUNO-TAO and CLOUD still have the potential to achieve a $5σ$ discovery but over longer timescales within a reasonable operational timeframe.
title Looping Around Neutrino Charge Radius at Ultra-Near Reactor Experiments
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00107