Light sterile neutrinos, lepton number violating interactions, and the LSND neutrino anomaly

We develop the consequences of introducing a purely leptonic, lepton number violating nonstandard interaction (NSI) and standard model neutrino mixing with a fourth, sterile neutrino in the analysis of short baseline, neutrino experiments. We focus on the muon decay at rest (DAR) results from the Li...

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Published in:Physical review. D 2016-06, Vol.93 (11), Article 113019
Main Authors: Babu, K. S., McKay, Douglas W., Mocioiu, Irina, Pakvasa, Sandip
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cosmology
Decay
Leptons
Mathematical models
Muons
Neutrinos
Operators
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Summary:We develop the consequences of introducing a purely leptonic, lepton number violating nonstandard interaction (NSI) and standard model neutrino mixing with a fourth, sterile neutrino in the analysis of short baseline, neutrino experiments. We focus on the muon decay at rest (DAR) results from the Liquid Scintillation Neutrino Experiment (LSND) and the Karlsruhe and Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino Experiment. We make a comprehensive analysis of lepton number violating, NSI effective operators and find nine that affect muon decay relevant to LSND results. Two of these preserve the standard model value 3/4 for the Michel [rho] and [delta] parameters and, overall, show favorable agreement with precision data and the [nu]e signal from LSND data. We display theoretical models that lead to these two effective operators. In the model we choose to apply to DAR data, both [nu] sub(e)appearance from [nu] sub([mu]) oscillation and [nu] sub(e)survival after production from NSI decay of the [mu]+ contribute to the expected signal. This is a unique feature of our scheme. We find a range of parameters where both experiments can be accommodated consistently with recent global, sterile neutrino fits to short baseline data. We comment on implications of the models for new physics searches at colliders and comment on further implications of the lepton number violating interactions plus sterile neutrino-standard neutrino mixing.
ISSN:2470-0010
2470-0029
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.113019