Published March 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Probing nonstandard interactions with reactor neutrinos

  • 1. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Am Muehlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm (Germany)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apdo. Postal 14-740 07000 Mexico, D F (Mexico)
  • 3. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN), 142190, Troitsk, Moscow region (Russian Federation)
  • 4. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Foehringer Ring 6, D-80805 Muenchen (Germany)

Description

New limits on the weak mixing angle and on the electron neutrino effective charge radius in the low energy regime, below 100 MeV, are obtained from a combined fit of all electron-(anti)neutrino electron elastic scattering measurements. We have included the recent TEXONO measurement with a CsI (Tl) detector. Only statistical error of this measurement has been taken into account. Weak mixing angle is found to be sin2θW=0.255-0.023+0.022. The electron neutrino effective charge radius squared is bounded to be =(0.9-1.0+0.9)x10-32 cm2. The sensitivity of future low energy neutrino experiments to nonstandard interactions of neutrinos with quarks is also discussed.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.02.051

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.02.051;
arXiv
arXiv:0810.5361v2;
PII
S0920-5632(09)00151-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
188
Journal Page Range
p. 214-216
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
Neutrino oscillation workshop
Acronym
NOW 2008
Dates
6-12 Sep 2008
Place
Otranto (Italy)

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