Probing Non-Standard Neutrino Physics at Neutrino Factory and T2KK
Abstract
We discuss ways to explore non-standard interactions (NSI) which neutrinos may possess by expressing them as effective four Fermi operators with coefficient of the order of (MW / MNP)2 ~0.01 (0.0001) for energy scales of new physics as MNP ~1 (10) TeV. Neutrino Factory is a prime candidate for such apparatus that can reach to the extreme precision. I describe a two detector setting, one at baseline L~3000 km and the other at L~7000 km, which is able to solve the notorious theta13-NSI confusion, and possibly also the two-phase confusion. The resultant sensitivities to off-diagonal NSI elements ε's are excellent, |εe tau| a few ×10-3 and |εe mu| a few ×10-4. Our results suggest a new picture of neutrino factory as a hunting machine for NSI while keeping its potential of precision measurement of lepton mixing parameters. Sensitivities to NSI by T2KK and the related settings are also discussed.
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