Probing non-unitarity of neutrino mixing in the scenario of Lorentz violation and dark nonstandard interaction

TL;DR

This paper investigates how non-unitary neutrino mixing, influenced by Lorentz violation and dark non-standard interactions, affects neutrino oscillation experiments like DUNE and Daya Bay, revealing potential observable signatures.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of non-unitary mixing effects due to Lorentz violation and dark NSI in neutrino oscillations within experimental setups.

Findings

Dark NSI can explain the excess flux at 5 MeV in Daya Bay.

Lorentz violation signatures are observable only in short baseline Daya Bay.

Non-unitary mixing influences neutrino oscillation probabilities in both scenarios.

Abstract

Neutrino flavour oscillation is one of the primary indication of the existence of new physics beyond standard model. The presence of small neutrino mass is indispensable to explicate the oscillation among different flavours of neutrino. By the addition of a right handed neutral lepton with the standard model fermions, it is possible to generate tiny neutrino mass. Such additional fermion may induce non-unitarity to the $3\times 3$ PMNS mixing matrix which influences the propagation of neutrino in space-time. In this work the effect of non-unitary mixing matrix is analyzed in neutrino oscillation in presence of two new physics scenarios, Lorentz violation and dark non-standard interaction. Lorentz symmetry violation mainly appears at the Planck scale, which may also be manifested at a lower energy level. On the other hand, dark non standard interaction arises due to the interaction of neutrino with the environmental dark matter which contributes as a perturbative correction to the neutrino mass. In this analysis, the comparative study of unitary and non-unitary mixing matrix is carried out considering the scenario of Lorentz violation and dark NSI in the context of long baseline DUNE and short baseline Daya Bay experimental set up. The signature of dark nonstandard interaction is observable in both DUNE and Daya Bay set up in terms of large value of neutrino survival and oscillation probability respectively and is a possible explanation for the excess flux observed at $\sim5$ MeV in Daya Bay experiment. The signature of Lorentz violation is also possible to be observed in the short baseline Daya Bay experiment only.