Disentangling Charged-Current Scalar NSI from the Solar Sector at JUNO

Abstract

We constrain charged-current scalar non-standard interaction with reactor antineutrinos within a quantum field theory framework of neutrino oscillations. We derive an analytical expression up to $\mathcal{O}({\epsilon }^4)$ for the electron antineutrino survival probability including scalar NSI contributions, and show that these effects induce spectral distortions that admit a large mixing angle solution for ${\theta }_{12}$. Using the 59.1-day and preliminary 207.2-day JUNO datasets, we obtain the first neutrino-oscillation determination of NSI parameters individually, rather than in a flavor-summed combination, from reactor experiments. Assuming one year of data taken, we show that the only solar sector analysis breaks the degeneracy with the solar mixing angle at $3\sigma$ of C.L.

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures