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Dark neutrinos and a three-portal connection to the standard model (2020)
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Ballett, P., Hostert, M., & Pascoli, S. (2020). Dark neutrinos and a three-portal connection to the standard model. Physical Review D, 101(11), Article 115025. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.115025

We introduce a dark neutrino sector which respects a hidden Uð1Þ0 gauge symmetry, subsequently broken by the vacuum expectation value of a dark scalar. The model is a self-consistent realization of an extended hidden sector that communicates with the... Read More about Dark neutrinos and a three-portal connection to the standard model.

Heavy Neutral Leptons from low-scale seesaws at the DUNE Near Detector (2020)
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Ballett, P., Boschi, T., & Pascoli, S. (2020). Heavy Neutral Leptons from low-scale seesaws at the DUNE Near Detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(3), Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282020%29111

Heavy nearly-sterile neutrinos are a common ingredient in extensions of the Standard Model which aim to explain neutrino masses, like for instance in Type I seesaw models, or one of its variants. If the scale of the new Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) i... Read More about Heavy Neutral Leptons from low-scale seesaws at the DUNE Near Detector.

Z's in neutrino scattering at DUNE (2019)
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Ballett, P., Hostert, M., Pascoli, S., Perez-Gonzalez, Y. F., Tabrizi, Z., & Funchal, R. Z. (2019). Z's in neutrino scattering at DUNE. Physical Review D, 100(5), Article 055012. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.055012

Novel leptophilic neutral currents can be tested at upcoming neutrino oscillation experiments using two complementary processes, neutrino trident production and neutrino-electron (ν − e) elastic scattering. Considering generic anomaly-free Uð1Þ exten... Read More about Z's in neutrino scattering at DUNE.

Neutrino masses from a dark neutrino sector below the electroweak scale (2019)
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Ballett, P., Hostert, M., & Pascoli, S. (2019). Neutrino masses from a dark neutrino sector below the electroweak scale. Physical Review D, 99(9), Article 091701(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.99.091701

We consider a minimal extension of the Standard Model which advocates a dark neutrino sector charged under a hidden U(1)′. We show that neutrino masses can arise radiatively in this model. The observed values are compatible with a light dark sector b... Read More about Neutrino masses from a dark neutrino sector below the electroweak scale.

Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors (2019)
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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

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... Read More about Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors.

MeV-scale sterile neutrino decays at the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program (2017)
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Ballett, P., Pascoli, S., & Ross-Lonergan, M. (2017). MeV-scale sterile neutrino decays at the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(04), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282017%29102

Nearly-sterile neutrinos with masses in the MeV range and below would be produced in the beam of the Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab. In this article, we study the potential for SBN to discover these particles through their subseque... Read More about MeV-scale sterile neutrino decays at the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program.

Precision neutrino experiments vs the Littlest Seesaw (2017)
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Ballett, P., King, S. F., Pascoli, S., Prouse, N., & Wang, T. (2017). Precision neutrino experiments vs the Littlest Seesaw. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(03), Article 110. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282017%29110

We study to what extent upcoming precision neutrino oscillation experiments will be able to exclude one of the most predictive models of neutrino mass and mixing: the Littlest Seesaw. We show that this model provides a good fit to current data, predi... Read More about Precision neutrino experiments vs the Littlest Seesaw.

Mixing angle and phase correlations from A5 with generalized CP and their prospects for discovery (2015)
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Ballett, P., Pascoli, S., & Turner, J. (2015). Mixing angle and phase correlations from A5 with generalized CP and their prospects for discovery. Physical Review D, 92(9), Article 093008. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.92.093008

The observed leptonic mixing pattern could be explained by the presence of a discrete flavor symmetry broken into residual subgroups at low energies. In this scenario, a residual generalized charge parity (CP) symmetry allows the parameters of the Po... Read More about Mixing angle and phase correlations from A5 with generalized CP and their prospects for discovery.

Testing solar lepton mixing sum rules in neutrino oscillation experiments (2014)
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Ballett, P., King, S., Luhn, C., Pascoli, S., & Schmidt, M. (2014). Testing solar lepton mixing sum rules in neutrino oscillation experiments. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(12), Article 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282014%29122

Small discrete family symmetries such as S4, A4 or A5 may lead to simple leading-order predictions for the neutrino mixing matrix such as the bimaximal, tribimaximal or golden ratio mixing patterns, which may be brought into agreement with experiment... Read More about Testing solar lepton mixing sum rules in neutrino oscillation experiments.

The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment (2014)
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collaboration, L.-L. (2014). The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(5), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282014%29094

The next generation neutrino observatory proposed by the LBNO collaboration will address fundamental questions in particle and astroparticle physics. The experiment consists of a far detector, in its first stage a 20 kt LAr double phase TPC and a mag... Read More about The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment.

Testing atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities (2014)
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Ballett, P., King, S., Luhn, C., Pascoli, S., & Schmidt, M. (2014). Testing atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities. Physical Review D, 89(1), Article 016016. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.89.016016

We study the prospects for testing classes of atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities. Such sum rules, which correlate the atmospheric mixing angle θ23 with the recently measured reactor angle θ13 and the cosine of the oscillati... Read More about Testing atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities.

Precision measurements of θ12 for testing models of discrete leptonic flavour symmetries (2014)
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Ballett, P., King, S., Luhn, C., Pascoli, S., & Schmidt, M. (2014). Precision measurements of θ12 for testing models of discrete leptonic flavour symmetries. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 598, Article 012014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/598/1/012014

Models of leptonic flavour with discrete symmetries can provide an attractive explanation of the pattern of elements found in the leptonic mixing matrix. The next generation of neutrino oscillation experiments will allow the mixing parameters to be t... Read More about Precision measurements of θ12 for testing models of discrete leptonic flavour symmetries.