Journal article
Testing New Physics Explanations of the MiniBooNE Anomaly at Neutrino Scattering Experiments
Physical review letters, Vol.123(26), p.261801
12/26/2019
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.261801
PMID: 31951430
Abstract
Heavy neutrinos with additional interactions have recently been proposed as an explanation to the MiniBooNE excess. These scenarios often rely on marginally boosted particles to explain the excess angular spectrum, thus predicting large rates at higher-energy neutrino-electron scattering experiments. We place new constraints on this class of models based on neutrino-electron scattering sideband measurements performed at MINER nu A and CHARM-II. A simultaneous explanation of the angular and energy distributions of the MiniBooNE excess in terms of heavy neutrinos with light mediators is severely constrained by our analysis. In general, high-energy neutrino-electron scattering experiments provide strong constraints on explanations of the MiniBooNE observation involving light mediators.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Testing New Physics Explanations of the MiniBooNE Anomaly at Neutrino Scattering Experiments
- Creators
- Carlos A. Arguelles - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMatheus Hostert - Durham UniversityYu-Dai Tsai - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physical review letters, Vol.123(26), p.261801
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.261801
- PMID
- 31951430
- NLM abbreviation
- Phys Rev Lett
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- eISSN
- 1079-7114
- Publisher
- Amer Physical Soc
- Number of pages
- 7
- Grant note
- Fermilab Center for Neutrino Physics summer visitor program DE-AC02-07CH11359 / Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (FRA) Conselho Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia (CNPq); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ) ST/P001246/1 / STFC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) PHY-1801996 / U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/26/2019
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984946626802771
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