Lepton flavor violation in medium energy setup of a beta-beam facility

TL;DR

This paper investigates how medium energy beta-beam experiments can detect lepton flavor violation through neutrino interactions, setting bounds on new couplings with high sensitivity.

Contribution

It provides a model-independent analysis of lepton flavor violating couplings in neutrino interactions at beta-beam facilities, establishing new sensitivity bounds.

Findings

Muon production processes are highly sensitive to W-mu-nu_e couplings.

95% confidence level bounds are established on lepton flavor violating couplings.

Medium energy beta-beam setups can effectively probe new physics in neutrino interactions.

Abstract

We examine lepton flavor violating couplings of the neutrinos to W boson in medium energy setup of a beta-beam experiment. We show that muon production via quasielastic scattering and deep inelastic scattering processes nu_e n-> mu p and nu_e N-> mu X are very sensitive to W-mu-nu_e couplings. We perform a model independent analysis and obtain 95% confidence level bounds on these couplings.