Speaker
Dr
Peter Denton
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
The nature of CP violation in the lepton sector is one of the biggest open questions in particle physics. Long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments have the opportunity to determine if CP is violated in the mass matrix. I will look at the most recent NOvA and T2K data which show a slight and very interesting tension. While this tension possibly indicates a flipping in the mass ordering, it is better fit by new physics such as non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) with an additional source of CP violation. The strength of this NSI can be easily estimated analytically and I will present a numerical analysis of the preferred regions which are generally consistent with other constraints.
Primary author
Dr
Peter Denton
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Co-authors
Julia Gehrlein
Rebekah Pestes
(Virginia Tech)
