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We investigate source and detector non-standard neutrino interactions at the proposed ESSνSB experiment. We analyze the effect of non-standard physics at the probability level, the event-rate level and by a full computation of the ESSνSB setup. We find that the precision measurement of the leptonic mixing angle θ 23 at ESSνSB is robust in the presence of non-standard interactions, whereas that of the leptonic CP-violating phase δ is worsened at most by a factor of two. We compute sensitivities to all the relevant source and decector non-standard interaction parameters and find that the sensitivities to the parameters ε s μe and ε d μe are comparable to the existing limits in a realistic scenario, while they improve by a factor of two in an optimistic scenario. Finally, we show that the absence of a near detector compromises the sensitivity of ESSνSB to non-standard interactions.
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Blennow, M., Choubey, S., Ohlsson, T. et al. Exploring source and detector non-standard neutrino interactions at ESSνSB. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 96 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)096
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