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This work was partially supported by Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia (CNPq). This project has also received support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 690575 (RISE InvisiblesPlus) and No. 674896 (ITN Elusives) SP and PB are supported by the European Research Council under ERC Grant "NuMass" (FP7-IDEAS-ERC ERC-CG 617143). SP acknowledges partial support from the Wolfson Foundation and the Royal Society.

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Neutrino trident scattering at near detectors

Publicated to:Journal Of High Energy Physics. 2019 (1): 119- - 2019-01-14 2019(1), DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2019)119

Authors: Ballett, Peter; Hostert, Matheus; Pascoli, Silvia; Perez-Gonzalez, Yuber F; Tabrizi, Zahra; Funchal, Renata Zukanovich

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Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Inst Particle Phys Phenomenol, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, England - Author
Univ Estadual Paulista, ICTP South Amer Inst Fundamental Res, Rua Dr Bento T Ferraz 271, BR-01140070 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Author
Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, Rua Dr Bento T Ferraz 271, BR-01140070 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Author
Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, Dept Fis Matemat, R Matao 1371, BR-05508090 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Author

Abstract

Neutrino trident scattering is a rare Standard Model process where a charged-lepton pair is produced in neutrino-nucleus scattering. To date, only the dimuon final-state has been observed, with around 100 total events, while the other channels are as yet unexplored. In this work, we compute the trident production cross section by performing a complete four-body phase space calculation for different hadronic targets. This provides a correct estimate both of the coherent and the diffractive contributions to these cross sections, but also allows us to address certain inconsistencies in the literature related to the use of the Equivalent Photon Approximation in this context. We show that this approximation can give a reasonable estimate only for the production of dimuon final-states in coherent scattering, being inadmissible for all other cases considered. We provide estimates of the number and distribution of trident events at several current and future near detector facilities subjected to intense neutrino beams from accelerators: five liquid-argon detectors (SBND, BooNE, ICARUS, DUNE and STORM), the iron detector of T2K (INGRID) and three detectors made of composite material (MINOS, NOA and MINERA). We find that for many experiments, trident measurements are an attainable goal and a valuable addition to their near detector physics programme.

Keywords

DistributionsHigh-energy neutrinoIntermediate bosonLeptonNeutrino physicsPairPrecision qePrecision qedProduction cross-sections

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal Of High Energy Physics due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2019, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category .

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 23.68, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-17, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 39
  • Scopus: 44
  • OpenCitations: 46

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-17:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 11.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 11 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.75.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 5 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Additionally, the work has been submitted to a journal classified as Diamond in relation to this type of editorial policy.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Brazil; United Kingdom.