7–9 May 2012
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Corrections to the atmospheric neutrino mixing from charged Higgs and $W'$ contribution to $ν_τ$-nucleon scattering

8 May 2012, 17:30
15m
104 (Lawrence)

104

Lawrence

parallel talk Neutrino

Speaker

Mr Ahmed Rashed (University of Mississippi)

Abstract:

We consider charged Higgs and $W'$ gauge boson contributions to the quasielastic scattering $\nu_{\tau}+ n \to \tau + p$. These effects modify the standard model cross section for this process and thus impact the extraction of the neutrino mixing angle $\theta_{23}$. We include form factor effects in our calculations and find the deviation of the actual mixing angle from the measured one, assuming the standard model cross section, can be significant and can depend on the energy of the neutrino.

Author

Mr Ahmed Rashed (University of Mississippi)

Co-authors

Dr Alakabha Datta (University of Mississippi) Dr Murugeswaran Duraisamy (University of Mississippi)

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