Friday 13 November 2020

Found paper on Explaining Reactor 5 MeV neutrino excess with axial or vector neutrino interaction

Experiments measuring neutrino fluxes from nuclear reactors have found an excess of neutrinos at 5 MeV. effrey M. Berryman, Vedran Brdar, and Patrick Huber wrote a paper arXiv:1803.08506. That seeks to explain this by neutrinos ejecting neutrons from carbon-13 via an new interaction, either vector or axial. They actually found a good fit, but then rule it out by the lack of deutrium photodistintegration from neutrinos. Without a full calculation, we suggest, that given a charge assignment of plus a half on protons and minus a half on neutrinos, deutrium will be overall neutral to the new force, and only weakly interact via dipole moment, carbon-13 however a an uncancelled neutron that can full interact with the new force. Such a charge assignment is one we made for the axial force in 2009.

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