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Invisible neutrino decay at long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments

Christoph A. Ternes* and Giulia Pagliaroli†

  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, L’Aquila (AQ), Italy

  • *christoph.ternes@lngs.infn.it
  • †giulia.pagliaroli@lngs.infn.it
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Phys. Rev. D 109, L071701 – Published 23 April, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L071701

Abstract

We perform an updated analysis of long-baseline accelerator data in the framework of neutrino oscillations in presence of invisible neutrino decay. We analyze data from T2K, NOvA and MINOS/MINOS+ and show that the combined analysis of all experiments improves the previous bound from long-baseline data by approximately one order of magnitude.

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Phys. Rev. D 109, L071701– Published 23 April, 2024
  • Received 31 January 2024
  • Accepted 22 March 2024
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