EFT analysis of New Physics at COHERENT with Dirac neutrinos

Mart\'in Gonz\'alez-Alonso; Sergio Cruz-Alzaga; Suraj Prakash; V\'ictor Bres\'o-Pla

EFT analysis of New Physics at COHERENT with Dirac neutrinos

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Pith's one-line read COHERENT, through a flavor-general low-energy field theory with right-handed Dirac neutrinos, can constrain new physics in both neutrino production and detection, with all effects packaged into effective nuclear charges.

desk verdict A genuinely reusable νWEFT framework for COHERENT with right-handed neutrinos, plus a correct and overdue fix to the tensor enhancement error; the fits are secondary. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.01275 v1 pith:MAVXBDSW submitted 2025-05-02 hep-ph

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The reading

This paper argues that COHERENT's coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) data are sensitive not only to new physics in neutrino detection but also, once right-handed Dirac neutrinos are included, to new physics in neutrino production. Working in νWEFT, the most general low-energy effective theory with the Standard Model fields plus right-handed Dirac neutrinos, it keeps arbitrary lepton flavor and derives the full event rate for pion decay, muon decay, and CEνNS detection in compact form: Standard Model fluxes times effective cross sections built from a few generalized nuclear charges. The paper uses current COHERENT cesium-iodide and liquid-argon data to bound these charges and the underlying Wilson coefficients, including first constraints on the muon-decay antineutrino spectral parameters $P_{\bar\nu_L}$ and $w_{\bar\nu_L}$. It also establishes that tensor interactions are not coherently enhanced at leading nuclear order, correcting a long-standing assumption in earlier CEνNS analyses, and gives projections for the planned CENNS-750 detector. If right, the paper supplies a ready-made parametrization that any existing or future CEνNS experiment can use to constrain production-side new physics.

What carries the argument

The central objects are the generalized nuclear charges of Eq. (3.3)—$Q_V$, $\tilde Q_V$, $Q_S$, $Q_F$, and $Q_{SF}$—and their production-weighted combinations $(\tilde Q^f_X)^2$ of Eq. (4.6), which bundle detection-side Wilson coefficients with muon-decay spectral matrices $H^{(i)}_x$ and pion-decay factors $P,\tilde P$. The machinery is the νWEFT operator basis (including right-handed Dirac neutrinos) matched onto a pionless nonrelativistic nucleon EFT; the nonrelativistic reduction in Eq. (2.8) maps the scalar nucleon bilinear onto the coherent vector structure and the tensor bilinear onto the incoherent axial structure, which is the step that removes the coherent enhancement for tensor couplings. With that mapping in place, the rate factorizes into SM fluxes times effective cross sections, making the new physics implementation immediate for any target or experiment.

What would settle it

Compute the full nuclear response for scalar and tensor currents at the momentum transfers sampled by COHERENT, including subleading recoil corrections and two-body nuclear currents; if the coherent $N^2$ part of the tensor response is not negligible at these recoil energies, the bounds in Tables 2 and 3 shift outside their quoted uncertainties. A direct experimental check would be a high-precision measurement of the delayed-neutrino spectrum from muon decay by an independent charged-current detector, which should reproduce the extracted $P_{\bar\nu_L}$ and $w_{\bar\nu_L}$ within the reported 90% region.

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Core claim

The paper claims that the complete COHERENT event rate in the presence of flavor-general νWEFT new physics, including right-handed Dirac neutrinos in pion decay, muon decay, and CEνNS detection, can be written as the conventional Standard Model fluxes times effective cross sections, with all new physics collected in generalized nuclear charges $\tilde Q^f_V$, $\tilde Q^f_S$, $\tilde Q^f_F$, and $\tilde Q^f_{SF}$ of Eqs. (4.3)–(4.6). Production-side new physics enters through factors $x_\mu$, $x_{\bar\mu}$, and $x_e$ multiplying the SM weak nuclear charge; in the presence of right-handed neutrinos these factors no longer cancel as they do in the SM-field-content case, which is why COHERENT can constrain them. The paper further claims first constraints on the muon-decay antineutrino spectral parameters $P_{\bar\nu_L}$ and $w_{\bar\nu_L}$, and shows, via the leading-order nonrelativistic reduction of the nucleon EFT, that scalar interactions mimic the coherent vector response while tensor interactions mimic the incoherent axial response. The tensor contribution therefore does not receive the $N^2$ coherent enhancement used in many previous CEνNS analyses, so the corresponding earlier bounds are not correct.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is the leading-order nonrelativistic pionless EFT of Section 2.2, which maps scalar and tensor nucleon bilinears onto vector and axial structures and assumes that subleading recoil corrections and two-body nuclear currents are negligible at COHERENT's recoil energies; the paper states that recoil corrections from tensor interactions are coherently enhanced but currently much smaller than experimental uncertainties, so if that hierarchy fails, the derived tensor and scalar limits shift.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

Earlier COHERENT bounds on tensor quark couplings that assumed an $N^2$ coherent enhancement should be revisited; those analyses overestimated the tensor rate by a factor $N^2$ and therefore quoted coefficient bounds that are too strong.
The delayed spectrum measured at COHERENT now yields constraints on the muon-decay spectral parameters $P_{\bar\nu_L}$ and $w_{\bar\nu_L}$ and their neutrino counterparts, without detecting the charged lepton in the decay.
All new physics can be implemented by replacing the SM weak charge with the generalized charges of Eqs. (4.3)–(4.6), so future CEνNS analyses at any target can reuse the same compact parametrization with little additional amplitude work.
Projections for the CENNS-750 detector show substantial improvements, including a projected lower bound $|[h^V_{LL}]_{\alpha\beta}| > 0.976$ at 90% CL, competitive with current values from global muon-decay analyses.
The same generalized-charge framework extends to CEνNS measurements with reactor and solar neutrinos, where the production side is nuclear beta decay rather than pion and muon decay.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same leading-order nonrelativistic rule that suppresses tensor coherence also governs dark-matter direct detection and muon-to-electron conversion, so the correction to CEνNS tensor bounds likely propagates to those processes; the paper notes the shared context but does not quantify that transfer.
If the muon-decay spectral parameters can be pinned down at CENNS-750, stopped-pion neutrino sources could become a broadly accessible laboratory for the Lorentz structure of the weak charged current, without needing to detect the charged lepton.
A multi-target global fit at fixed Wilson coefficients is a built-in consistency test of the factorization: cesium iodide and argon weight $Z$ and $N$ differently, so a disagreement between their inferred charges would point to nuclear-response or production physics missing from the leading-order EFT.
Extending the same method to reactor and solar CEνNS experiments, where neutrinos are born in beta decay, would open production-side sensitivity to charged-current operators that are hard to reach at spallation sources; the paper lists this as a direction to explore.

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Worth a serious look. The genuinely new thing is a flavor-general νWEFT treatment of COHERENT with an arbitrary number of right-handed Dirac neutrinos, including non-standard effects in both production (pion and muon decay) and detection (CEνNS), all reduced to a compact SM-fluxes-times-effective-cross-sections form. The factorization in Eqs. (4.3)–(4.6) is clean enough that other groups will pick it up. The paper also makes a real correction to the tensor-interaction literature: at leading order in the non-relativistic pionless EFT, tensor operators map onto axial structure and do not receive coherent enhancement, so many previous bounds are off by N². I checked the reduction in Eq. (2.8); it is standard, and the neglected subleading terms are O(T/m_N) ~ 10⁻⁶, far below current precision. That part alone justifies refereeing.

The derivation is careful and self-consistent. It reduces properly to the SM, left-handed NSI, the Lindner et al. limit, magnetic moment, scalar, and interference cases. The PMNS matrices cancel at zero baseline, as they should. The muon-decay spectral parameterization with P_ν and w_ν for both chiralities is a natural generalization of Fetscher and of the authors' earlier letter. The numerical fits are plausible but less probative. There is no public code, the COHERENT implementation is inherited from the previous paper, and the one-at-a-time bounds leave out dark solutions at large couplings. Those are ordinary limitations, not cracks in the central EFT result.

One point to watch: the paper is blunt about the tensor error and cites a long list of papers that made it. The correction looks right, but the authors have skin in the game; a referee should independently verify the non-relativistic reduction and the agreement with Refs. [23,27,48] rather than take the footnote at face value. The novelty claim versus their own [32] is a modest extension, but the extension to arbitrary νR number and lepton-flavor violation is a clear step forward.

If I worked on CEνNS or neutrino EFT, I would cite this. The formalism is the contribution, and it is a good one. The fits are illustrative. The paper should go to peer review with a competent referee, not desk reject.

Referee Report

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Summary. This paper presents a νWEFT (weak effective field theory extended with light right-handed Dirac neutrinos) analysis of the COHERENT CEνNS data. It derives the full event rate for flavor-general new physics in pion decay, muon decay, and neutrino-nucleus detection, and shows that the rate can be written compactly as SM fluxes times effective cross sections with generalized nuclear charges (Eqs. (4.3)-(4.6)). The authors then use the COHERENT CsI and LAr datasets to set one-at-a-time bounds on these charges and on the underlying νWEFT Wilson coefficients, and estimate the sensitivity of the future CENNS-750 detector. They also argue, on the basis of a non-relativistic nuclear EFT, that tensor interactions do not receive the coherent enhancement assumed in much of the earlier CEνNS literature.

Significance. The compact factorization of the rate is a genuinely useful technical result: it encodes the full νWEFT prediction (with right-handed neutrinos, lepton-flavor violation, and simultaneous production and detection effects) in a few effective charges, and the derivation is checked against several known limits (SM, left-handed NSI, Lindner et al., magnetic moment, scalar, and interference). The paper provides the first constraints on production-side right-handed neutrino parameters from COHERENT, notably the muon-decay spectral parameters P_ν̄L and w_ν̄L, and corrects the literature on the absence of coherent enhancement of tensor operators. The numerical analysis is transparent about its own limitations (dark solutions, one-at-a-time fits, idealized projections), and the analytic part is self-contained. The main weakness is the lack of a public implementation, which limits direct reproducibility of the fits.

minor comments (6)

[Abstract; Sec. 1] The abstract and the introduction state that the analysis includes 'for the first time' flavor-general new physics in neutrino production and detection with right-handed neutrinos. Since Ref. [34] also treats general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in meson decays and CEνNS, the authors should state explicitly which element is new (e.g., muon decay production, the treatment of lepton-flavor violation, or the complete operator basis), or soften the claim.
[Sec. 5.2, Eq. (5.5)] The three production factors xµ, x̄µ and xe are strongly correlated, and the paper reports their covariance matrix but not the full likelihood. Providing the fit results in a machine-readable form, or at least the exact χ² function, would allow interested readers to reproduce the derived bounds in Eqs. (5.7)-(5.10).
[Sec. 5.3, Table 2] The note that 'dark solutions' are omitted should be more precise: please state whether the quoted 90% CL intervals are local bounds around the SM and, if so, specify the range of each Wilson coefficient over which the bound applies; otherwise the global validity of the table is not clear.
[Sec. 2.2, after Eq. (2.9)] The statement that axial-vector and tensor nucleon operators are 'not relevant for the remainder of our calculations' requires a quantitative justification for the CsI target, whose nuclei have nonzero spin; a short estimate of the spin-dependent contribution relative to the coherent vector rate would remove the ambiguity.
[Sec. 4.2, tensor comparison] The sentence 'the bounds on the tensor quark-level coefficients e~ϵqq_T obtained in these works are incorrect by a factor N^2' is imprecise: the tensor contribution to the cross section was overestimated by a factor N^2, so the derived bounds on the Wilson coefficients are too strong by a factor N rather than N^2. Please rephrase.
[Throughout] The paper stresses that the rate parametrization is easy to implement, but no public code or data tables are provided; making the generalized-charge expressions and fit code available would significantly improve reproducibility. There are also several typos (e.g., the Appendix A title 'Kinematic fj X(T) functions', 'ννe' in Sec. 5.2, and a formatting issue in Eq. (2.1)).

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the compact event-rate parametrization is derived from amplitudes, and constraints are fits to public COHERENT data, not fits renamed as predictions.

full rationale

The central result, Eqs. (4.3)-(4.6), is not circular: it is an algebraic rearrangement of the production and detection amplitudes computed in Sec. 3, with the PMNS matrices cancelling by unitarity for zero baseline and the SM flux shapes recovered by setting P_L=1 and w=0. The generalized charges (eQ^f_X)^2 are defined through Eq. (4.6) so that the convolution identity holds; this is a parametrization, not a fit masquerading as a prediction. All numerical results are constraints extracted from the public COHERENT CsI and LAr data via the chi-squared in Eq. (5.4), and the future projections in Table 1 and Sec. 5 deliberately take the SM as central value rather than using the fitted parameters to predict new data. The tensor non-enhancement statement follows from the explicitly displayed non-relativistic reduction in Eq. (2.8), a stated leading-order pionless-EFT assumption whose O(T/m_N) corrections are acknowledged, so it is not an input smuggled in by citation. The self-citations to Refs. [31] and [32] provide the experimental implementation, the numerical x_f fit in Eq. (5.5), and priority statements, but they are not load-bearing: the derivation of the x_f-to-(P,w) mapping is in the present paper, and the underlying fit is to publicly available data and is therefore externally falsifiable. No equation reduces to an input by construction, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. The score of 2 reflects the presence of minor, non-load-bearing self-citations only.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities: the right-handed neutrino fields are part of the νWEFT framework from Refs. [33,34], not new particles proposed here. Its target parameters are the generalized nuclear charges and νWEFT Wilson coefficients, which are fitted one or two at a time to COHERENT data. The load-bearing assumptions are the EFT field content, massless neutrinos, the leading-order non-relativistic nuclear EFT mapping, equal proton/neutron form factors, and the experimental model inherited from [31].

free parameters (6)

Generalized vector charge eQ_V = ~1.03 Q_SM
Fitted to COHERENT data; Table 1 reports |eQ_V|(CsI)=1.033^{+85}_{-75} Q_SM and |eQ_V|(Ar)=1.03^{+22}_{-25} Q_SM in one-at-a-time fits.
Scalar generalized charges eQ_e_S and eQ_µ_S = 90% CL bounds <0.48 Q_SM (CsI, e), <1.5 Q_SM (Ar, e), <0.39 Q_SM (CsI, µ), <1.2 Q_SM (Ar, µ)
One-at-a-time limits reported in Table 1.
Effective magnetic moments µ_νe/µ_B and µ_νµ/µ_B = 90% CL bounds 3.7e-9 and 2.7e-9 respectively
Table 1 quotes these as 90% CL bounds for current COHERENT data.
Production factors x_µ, x_ν̄, x_e = 1.30(32), -1.2(1.4), 4.3(2.2) with correlation matrix in Eq. (5.5)
Fitted to combined CsI and LAr data under the assumption of SM detection.
Muon-decay WC combination Tr(|h^V_LL|^2 + |h^S_RR|^2/4) = 0.95^{+0.05}_{-0.15} at 1σ, 90% CL lower bound 0.72
Given in Eq. (5.11) under the stated assumptions that other operators are set to zero.
Wilson coefficients in one- and two-parameter fits = Various 90% CL bounds, e.g. |ϵ_ee^uu| < 0.078 and |[h^V_LL]_αβ| > 0.848
Representative entries from Tables 2 and 3; the paper reports separate one-at-a-time and two-parameter fits.

assumptions (6)

domain assumption Massless right-handed Dirac neutrinos are included as three (or n) light fields, and lepton-number-violating operators are absent at dimension six.
Sec. 2.1, Eqs. (2.1)-(2.3); this fixes the operator basis of νWEFT and the Dirac nature of neutrinos.
domain assumption Neutrino masses are neglected and the COHERENT baseline is short, so oscillation phases vanish and the PMNS matrix U cancels in the rate.
Sec. 3.1 after Eq. (3.1): 'the oscillatory factor... can be approximated as one due to the short baseline'; Sec. 4: 'the PMNS matrix does not appear in the final result, as it should be since L≈0.'
domain assumption The pionless EFT at leading order in ∇/m_N describes all relevant nuclear responses; the non-relativistic mappings Eq. (2.8) set the operator structures.
Sec. 2.2, Eqs. (2.8)-(2.9); this is the basis for the claim that tensor interactions are not coherently enhanced.
domain assumption Isospin symmetry and F_p(q^2)=F_n(q^2)≡F(q^2) for nuclear form factors.
Sec. 2.2, text after Eq. (2.10): 'From isospin symmetry it follows that F_N(0)=1, and we will approximate F_p(q^2)=F_n(q^2)≡F(q^2).'
domain assumption The COHERENT experimental model (quenching, resolution, efficiencies, backgrounds, nuisance parameters) is taken from the authors' previous implementation in Ref. [31].
Sec. 5.1: 'we refer the reader to Ref. [31], where our implementation of the COHERENT prescription is presented.'
standard math Standard Dirac algebra and phase-space integration for 2-to-n decay and scattering amplitudes, including Fierz identities for tensor couplings, are assumed.
Used throughout Sec. 3 for the production and detection amplitudes and the resulting rates.

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abstract

We study the sensitivity of COHERENT-like experiments to non-standard contributions within the so-called $\nu$WEFT framework. The latter is the most general low-energy effective field theory that includes not only the light SM fields but also additional right-handed Dirac neutrinos. Our analysis includes for the first time flavor-general New Physics effects in neutrino production (pion and muon decays) and neutrino detection (through Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering). Despite the generality, the results can be written in compact form and are easy to implement in existing or future analyses using effective nuclear charges. We use current COHERENT data to set constraints on the corresponding effective operators, and we estimate the sensitivity of future measurements.

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