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Damping signatures at JUNO, a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment

  • The JUNO collaboration
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
  • Università degli Studi di Catania
  • East China University of Science and Technology
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • University of Milano
  • Department of Physics
  • Chulalongkorn University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Comenius University
  • Department of Physics and Earth Science
  • Sezione INFN di Ferrara
  • University of Milano-Bicocca
  • INFN
  • III. Physikalisches Institut A
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Physikalisches Institut
  • University of Tübingen
  • Department of Physics
  • National Taiwan University
  • Université de Nantes
  • Univ. Bordeaux
  • University of Padova
  • University Roma Tre
  • Aix Marseille Université
  • Wuhan University
  • Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca

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Abstract

We study damping signatures at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment. These damping signatures are motivated by various new physics models, including quantum decoherence, ν3 decay, neutrino absorption, and wave packet decoherence. The phenomenological effects of these models can be characterized by exponential damping factors at the probability level. We assess how well JUNO can constrain these damping parameters and how to disentangle these different damping signatures at JUNO. Compared to current experimental limits, JUNO can significantly improve the limits on τ3/m3 in the ν3 decay model, the width of the neutrino wave packet σx, and the intrinsic relative dispersion of neutrino momentum σrel. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original languageEnglish
Article number62
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2022
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Neutrino Detectors and Telescopes (experiments)

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