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Phys. Rev. D 76, 095014 (2007) [4 pages]

Constraints on unparticles from low energy neutrino-electron scattering

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A. B. Balantekin*
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

K. O. Ozansoy
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA and Department of Physics, Ankara University, 06100 Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey

Received 28 September 2007; published 27 November 2007

We place limits on scalar and vector unparticle couplings to electrons and neutrinos using data from reactor neutrino experiments originally designed to search for neutrino magnetic moment. Upper bounds on standard model lepton-scalar unparticle and lepton-vector unparticle couplings λ0, and λ1 are given for various values of the unparticle mass dimension d, and the unparticle energy scale ΛU. Especially for smaller values of the mass dimension d (1<d<1.3) these bounds are very significant and comparable to those obtained from production rates at high energy colliders. These bounds are also similar to those obtained by the analysis of the absence of the decay of the low-energy solar and reactor neutrinos.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.095014
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.095014
PACS:
12.60.−i, 11.25.Hf, 14.80.−j, 13.15.+g

*baha@physics.wisc.edu

oozansoy@physics.wisc.edu