Journal of High Energy Physics (Jun 2019)

On the determination of leptonic CP violation and neutrino mass ordering in presence of non-standard interactions: present status

  • Ivan Esteban,
  • M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia,
  • Michele Maltoni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)055
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2019, no. 6
pp. 1 – 24

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Abstract We perform a global analysis of neutrino data in the framework of three massive neutrinos with non-standard neutrino interactions which affect their evolution in the matter background. We focus on the effect of NSI in the present observables sensitive to leptonic CP violation and to the mass ordering. We consider complex neutral current neutrino interactions with quarks whose lepton-flavor structure is independent of the quark type. We quantify the status of the “hints” for CP violation, the mass-ordering and non-maximality of θ 23 in these scenarios. We also present a parametrization-invariant formalism for leptonic CP violation in presence of a generalized matter potential induced by NSI.

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