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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 20: Neutrinophysik (Theorie)

T 20.6: Talk

Monday, March 28, 2011, 18:00–18:15, 30.23: 3-1

New physics searches at near detectors of neutrino oscillation experiments — Stefan Antusch, Mattias Blennow, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez, and •Toshihiko Ota — Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen, Germany

We systematically investigate the prospects of testing new physics with tau sensitive near detectors at neutrino oscillation facilities. For neutrino beams from pion decay, from the decay of radiative ions, as well as from the decays of muons in a storage ring at a neutrino factory, we discuss which effective operators can lead to new physics effects. Furthermore, we discuss the present bounds on such operators set by other experimental data currently available. For operators with two leptons and two quarks we present the first complete analysis including all relevant operators simultaneously and performing a Markov Chain Monte Carlo fit to the data. We find that these effects can induce tau neutrino appearance probabilities as large as the order of ten to minus fourth, which are within reach of forthcoming experiments. We highlight to which kind of new physics a tau sensitive near detector would be most sensitive.