Gauged LL and different muon neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations: MINOS and beyond

Julian Heeck (1) , Werner Rodejohann (1)

1 MPIK - Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik

If a Z  gauge boson of a gauged L µ − L τ symmetry is very light, it is associated with a long-range leptonic force. In this case the particles in the Sun create via mixing of Z  with the Standard Model Z a flavor-dependent potential for muon neutrinos in terrestrial long-baseline experiments. The potential changes sign for anti-neutrinos and hence can lead to apparent differences in neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations without introducing CP or CPT violation. This can for instance explain the recently found discrepancy in the survival probabilities of muon neutrinos and anti-neutrinos in the MINOS experiment. We obtain the associated parameters of gauged L µ − L τ required to explain this anomaly, and compare our scenario to usually considered nonstandard interactions. When applied to MINOS, both approaches have difficulties with existing limits. The consequences for future long-baseline experiments and for the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are discussed. The main feature is that atmospheric neutrino mixing has to be non-maximal in order to have an effect. Neutrino masses tend to have a mild hierarchy.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Julian Heeck, Werner Rodejohann. Gauged LL and different muon neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations: MINOS and beyond. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2011, 38 (8), pp.85005. ⟨10.1088/0954-3899/38/8/085005⟩. ⟨hal-00637339⟩