# Atmospheric Trident Production for Probing New Physics

## TL;DR

This paper explores how atmospheric neutrino-induced trident production at large Cherenkov detectors can serve as a novel method to detect new physics beyond the Standard Model, focusing on potential new bosons.

## Contribution

It introduces the use of atmospheric neutrino trident production as a new probe for physics beyond the Standard Model and calculates the expected event rates and sensitivities.

## Key findings

- Standard Model predicts specific event rates for trident production
- Sensitivity to new vector and scalar bosons is demonstrated
- Distinctive double muon track signature identified as a key signal

## Abstract

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.