Atmospheric trident production for probing new physics

oleh: Shao-Feng Ge, Manfred Lindner, Werner Rodejohann

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Elsevier 2017-09-01

Deskripsi

We propose to use atmospheric neutrinos as a powerful probe of new physics beyond the Standard Model via neutrino trident production. The final state with double muon tracks simultaneously produced from the same vertex is a distinctive signal at large Cherenkov detectors. We calculate the expected event numbers of trident production in the Standard Model. To illustrate the potential of this process to probe new physics we obtain the sensitivity on new vector/scalar bosons with coupling to muon and tau neutrinos.