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Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors

Ballett, Peter; Hostert, Matheus; Pascoli, Silvia; Perez-Gonzalez, Yuber F.; Tabrizi, Zahra; Funchal, Renata Zukanovich

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Authors

Peter Ballett

Matheus Hostert

Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez

Zahra Tabrizi

Renata Zukanovich Funchal



Abstract

Neutrino trident scattering is a rare Standard Model process where a charged-lepton pair is produced in neutrino-nucleus scattering. To date, only the dimuon final-state has been observed, with around 100 total events, while the other channels are as yet unexplored. In this work, we compute the trident production cross section by performing a complete four-body phase space calculation for different hadronic targets. This provides a correct estimate both of the coherent and the diffractive contributions to these cross sections, but also allows us to address certain inconsistencies in the literature related to the use of the Equivalent Photon Approximation in this context. We show that this approximation can give a reasonable estimate only for the production of dimuon final-states in coherent scattering, being inadmissible for all other cases considered. We provide estimates of the number and distribution of trident events at several current and future near detector facilities subjected to intense neutrino beams from accelerators: five liquid-argon detectors (SBND, μBooNE, ICARUS, DUNE and νSTORM), the iron detector of T2K (INGRID) and three detectors made of composite material (MINOS, NOνA and MINERνA). We find that for many experiments, trident measurements are an attainable goal and a valuable addition to their near detector physics programme.

Citation

Ballett, P., Hostert, M., Pascoli, S., Perez-Gonzalez, Y. F., Tabrizi, Z., & Funchal, R. Z. (2019). Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(1), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01%282019%29119

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 8, 2019
Online Publication Date Jan 14, 2019
Publication Date Jan 14, 2019
Deposit Date Jan 22, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jan 22, 2019
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Print ISSN 1126-6708
Electronic ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2019
Issue 1
Article Number 119
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01%282019%29119
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1339309

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