Testing NSI suggested by the solar neutrino tension in T2HKK and DUNE

Abstract

It was shown that the tension between the mass-squared differences obtained from solar neutrinos and those acquired through KamLAND experiments may be solved by the introduction of a non-standard flavor-dependent interaction (NSI) in neutrino propagation. In this study, we discuss the possibility of testing such a hypothesis using the future long-baseline neutrino experiments T2HKK and DUNE. Assuming that the NSI does not exist, we provide the excluded region within the (${ϵ}_D$, ${ϵ}_N$) plane, where ${ϵ}_D$ and ${ϵ}_N$ are the parameters appearing in the solar neutrino analysis conducted with the NSI. We find that the best-fit value from the solar neutrino and KamLAND data (global analysis of a particular coupling to quarks) can be tested at more than 10$\sigma$ (3$\sigma$) by these two experiments for most of the parameter space.

Comments: 21 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, Version accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett. A