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arXiv · 2112.14450

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

JUNO collaboration·Jun Wang·Jiajun Liao·Wei Wang·Angel Abusleme·Thomas Adam·Shakeel Ahmad·Rizwan Ahmed·Sebastiano Aiello·Muhammad Akram·Fengpeng An·Qi An·Giuseppe Andronico·Nikolay Anfimov·Vito Antonelli·Tatiana Antoshkina·Burin Asavapibhop·João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André·Didier Auguste·Andrej Babic·Nikita Balashov·Wander Baldini·Andrea Barresi·Davide Basilico·Eric Baussan·Marco Bellato·Antonio Bergnoli·Thilo Birkenfeld·Sylvie Blin·David Blum·Simon Blyth·Anastasia Bolshakova·Mathieu Bongrand·Clément Bordereau·Dominique Breton·Augusto Brigatti·Riccardo Brugnera·Riccardo Bruno·Antonio Budano·Mario Buscemi·Jose Busto·Ilya Butorov·Anatael Cabrera·Hao Cai·Xiao Cai·Yanke Cai·Zhiyan Cai·Riccardo Callegari·Antonio Cammi·Agustin Campeny·Chuanya Cao·Guofu Cao·Jun Cao·Rossella Caruso·Cédric Cerna·Jinfan Chang·Yun Chang·Pingping Chen·Po-An Chen·Shaomin Chen·Xurong Chen·Yi-Wen Chen·Yixue Chen·Yu Chen·Zhang Chen·Jie Cheng·Yaping Cheng·Alexey Chetverikov·Davide Chiesa·Pietro Chimenti·Artem Chukanov·Gérard Claverie·Catia Clementi·Barbara Clerbaux·Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo·Daniele Corti·Flavio Dal Corso·Olivia Dalager·Christophe De La Taille·Jiawei Deng·Zhi Deng·Ziyan Deng·Wilfried Depnering·Marco Diaz·Xuefeng Ding·Yayun Ding·Bayu Dirgantara·Sergey Dmitrievsky·Tadeas Dohnal·Dmitry Dolzhikov·Georgy Donchenko·Jianmeng Dong·Evgeny Doroshkevich·Marcos Dracos·Frédéric Druillole·Ran Du·Shuxian Du·Stefano Dusini·Martin Dvorak·Timo Enqvist

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, $ν_3$ 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 $τ_3/m_3$ in the $ν_3$ decay model, the width of the neutrino wave packet $σ_x$, and the intrinsic relative dispersion of neutrino momentum $σ_{\rm rel}$.

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JUNO collaboration, Jun Wang, Jiajun Liao, Wei Wang, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Shakeel Ahmad, Rizwan Ahmed, Sebastiano Aiello, Muhammad Akram, Fengpeng An, Qi An, Giuseppe Andronico, Nikolay Anfimov, Vito Antonelli, Tatiana Antoshkina, Burin Asavapibhop, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André, Didier Auguste, Andrej Babic, Nikita Balashov, Wander Baldini, Andrea Barresi, Davide Basilico, Eric Baussan, Marco Bellato, Antonio Bergnoli, Thilo Birkenfeld, Sylvie Blin, David Blum, Simon Blyth, Anastasia Bolshakova, Mathieu Bongrand, Clément Bordereau, Dominique Breton, Augusto Brigatti, Riccardo Brugnera, Riccardo Bruno, Antonio Budano, Mario Buscemi, Jose Busto, Ilya Butorov, Anatael Cabrera, Hao Cai, Xiao Cai, Yanke Cai, Zhiyan Cai, Riccardo Callegari, Antonio Cammi, Agustin Campeny, Chuanya Cao, Guofu Cao, Jun Cao, Rossella Caruso, Cédric Cerna, Jinfan Chang, Yun Chang, Pingping Chen, Po-An Chen, Shaomin Chen, Xurong Chen, Yi-Wen Chen, Yixue Chen, Yu Chen, Zhang Chen, Jie Cheng, Yaping Cheng, Alexey Chetverikov, Davide Chiesa, Pietro Chimenti, Artem Chukanov, Gérard Claverie, Catia Clementi, Barbara Clerbaux, Selma Conforti Di Lorenzo, Daniele Corti, Flavio Dal Corso, Olivia Dalager, Christophe De La Taille, Jiawei Deng, Zhi Deng, Ziyan Deng, Wilfried Depnering, Marco Diaz, Xuefeng Ding, Yayun Ding, Bayu Dirgantara, Sergey Dmitrievsky, Tadeas Dohnal, Dmitry Dolzhikov, Georgy Donchenko, Jianmeng Dong, Evgeny Doroshkevich, Marcos Dracos, Frédéric Druillole, Ran Du, Shuxian Du, Stefano Dusini, Martin Dvorak, Timo Enqvist. 2022-06-14. Damping signatures at JUNO, a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2022)062

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