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Testing lepton non-unitarity with the next generation of Germanium-based CE$\nu$NS reactor experiments

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Pith's one-line read A next-generation germanium detector sitting 20 meters from a nuclear reactor could measure departures from lepton-mixing unitarity down to about 0.5 percent, reaching the TeV-scale mass range predicted by low-scale seesaw models.

desk verdict A competent, clearly-presented sensitivity study for future Ge CEνNS reactors that gives useful design guidance but whose headline 0.005/2.5 TeV reach depends on an unproven factor-10 improvement in the reactor flux uncertainty. read the letter →

arxiv 2512.09027 v2 pith:RZ34S7KU submitted 2025-12-09 hep-ph hep-ex

Salvador Centelles Chuliá , Manfred Lindner , Thomas Rink This is my paper
classification hep-phhep-ex
keywords leptonnon-unitarityCEνNScoherentelasticneutrino-nucleusscatteringgermaniumdetectorsreactorantineutrinoslightsterileneutrinoseesawmechanismneutrino-electron
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The reading

The paper argues that a scaled-up germanium detector array placed 20 meters from a 3.5 GW reactor—the same technology that recently recorded the first reactor CEνNS signal—would be sensitive enough to see the tiny departures from 3×3 lepton-mixing unitarity that low-scale seesaw models predict. If such departures exist at the level of roughly half a percent in the parameters 1−α11² and 1−α22², the experiment would reveal them at 90% confidence, and under the low-scale seesaw assumption that translates to probing new fermion masses up to ~2.5 TeV. In the alternative light-sterile regime, the same setup would exclude active-sterile mixing angles sin²2θ14 above about 2×10⁻² for mass splittings between 0.1 and 10 eV². The authors identify the reactor antineutrino flux uncertainty, not backgrounds or quenching, as the limiting systematic; a tenfold reduction in flux uncertainty improves projected limits by roughly 60%.

What carries the argument

The central objects are the non-unitary mixing matrix N, written as a triangular matrix times the unitary PMNS matrix U with diagonal αii and off-diagonal αij parameters, and two limiting regimes: the seesaw limit, where only the 3×3 active block matters and the observable is the ratio NNU/NSM ≈ 2α11² − α22² (identical for CEνNS and elastic neutrino-electron scattering), and the light-sterile limit, where the full 3×4 mixing matrix enters and both processes share the survival probability 1 − sin²2θ14 sin²(LΔm²41/4Eν). The equality of the two prefactors is what makes the reactor setup sensitive: a single measured spectral shape constrains both unitarity and sterile parameters.

What would settle it

Run the proposed experiment (or a careful background measurement at the existing germanium reactor site) and check whether the background below 1 keV is actually flat at ≤10 counts/keV/kg/day and whether the reactor antineutrino spectrum's shape is known to a few percent. A measured background with non-flat spectral features—or an unfolded flux whose bins carry correlated shape errors comparable to the 3% normalization—would directly invalidate the projected 0.005/0.006 limits. Alternatively, a null result at the projected sensitivity from 500 kg·yr would put the low-scale seesaw interpretatio

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Core claim

The central result is that coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering receive a common, potentially sizable correction from lepton non-unitarity. In the seesaw limit, where the extra singlet fermions are too heavy to be produced, the event-rate ratio relative to the Standard Model simplifies to 2α11² − α22², which can be larger or smaller than one because the non-unitarity suppression at the vertices competes with the redefinition of the Fermi constant. This single prefactor carries the entire signal. In the light-sterile limit, both processes are modulated by the same survival probability 1 − sin²2θ14 sin²(LΔm²41/4Eν). A likelihood analysis

Load-bearing premise

The projections assume a flat detector background of 10 counts/keV/kg/day below 1 keV and 0.5 counts/keV/kg/day above, 100% detection efficiency down to threshold, and a reactor antineutrino spectrum whose only uncertainty is a 3% normalization; if the real background is not flat or shows spectral features at that level, or if the flux has shape uncertainties of comparable size, the quoted limits in Tables I–III would degrade.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • At the intermediate 'soon' configuration (125 eV threshold, 50 kg·yr), the experiment alone already improves current oscillation-based bounds on 1−α11² by roughly a factor 2.5, and combined with oscillation data it pushes the inferred low-scale seesaw mediator scale above ~1.1 TeV for α11 and ~760 GeV for α22.
  • If systematics are improved tenfold on flux and background and twofold on quenching, the 'future' configuration reaches 1−α11² ≈ 0.005 and 1−α22² ≈ 0.006 at 90% C.L., corresponding to mediator masses up to ~2.5 TeV.
  • In the light-sterile regime, the setup is not systematics-limited: doubling exposure or lowering threshold continues to sharpen the reach, down to sin²2θ14 ≲ 2×10⁻² for Δm²14 in [0.1, 10] eV².
  • The reactor antineutrino flux normalization is the dominant systematic; improving it by a factor 10 gives a ~63% improvement in the seesaw limit and ~54% in the sterile case, while background and quenching improvements matter much less.
  • A 500 kg·yr experiment at 150 eV threshold has sensitivity almost identical to a 50 kg·yr experiment at 100 eV, so detector-development choices can be made on engineering rather than physics grounds.

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

  • The analysis treats the reactor flux as a single 3% normalization pull with a fixed spectral shape; real spectral-shape uncertainties (e.g., from fission-fraction evolution or IBD spectrum unfolding) could degrade the projected α limits more than the quoted normalization-only pulls suggest, and would presumably also affect the sterile-limit reach near the 2×10⁻² exclusion.
  • Because the same prefactor 2α11² − α22² appears in CEνNS and elastic neutrino-electron scattering, an experiment that separates the two channels (e.g., via different energy windows, as done here) could use their ratio to cancel the flux normalization and isolate the unitarity parameters more cleanly than the single-process fit.
  • A multi-distance configuration of identical germanium detectors, rather than a single 20 m site, would cancel the common flux systematic and sharpen the sterile-neutrino mass-squared reconstruction, since the oscillation phase LΔm²/4Eν depends on baseline.
  • The TeV-scale interpretation rests on the low-scale seesaw assumption with O(1) Yukawa couplings; if the new singlet fermions couple more weakly, the same α limits would point to heavier states, so the mass reach should be read as an illustrative scale rather than a hard bound.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper analyzes how lepton non-unitarity arising from additional gauge-singlet fermions modifies coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (EvES), and projects the sensitivity of an upscaled CONUS+-style germanium reactor experiment. In the heavy (seesaw) limit, the modification is an energy-independent rescaling of the total rate, approximately 2*alpha11^2 - alpha22^2; in the light-sterile limit, it is the standard short-baseline disappearance probability 1 - sin^2(2*theta14)*sin^2(L*Delta_m^2/4E). Using a likelihood with simultaneous ON/OFF reactor data, pull terms for flux normalization, quenching, background, and external oscillation constraints, the authors derive 90% C.L. projections, including 1-alpha11^2 ~ 0.005 and sin^2(2*theta14) ~ 2e-2 for an optimized 'future' configuration, and identify reactor flux normalization as the dominant systematic.

Significance. If the projections are robust, this is a valuable physics case for next-generation germanium CEvNS detectors: TeV-scale seesaw mediators are otherwise difficult to probe at low energies, and the CEvNS channel is flavor-universal, complementing CC-based oscillation searches. The theoretical derivation at O(epsilon^2) is transparent and internally consistent, and the authors correctly label the mass-scale translation as illustrative rather than a strict limit. The paper usefully isolates which experimental systematics dominate, which is directly actionable for experimental design.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section III, Eq. (35), Tables I-II] The headline sensitivity (1-alpha11^2 ~ 0.005; 2.5 TeV in Table III) is obtained in the 'optimized' configuration with a factor-10 reduction of the reactor flux normalization pull to 0.3%. The manuscript states that this improvement 'could arise from combining all other existing and upcoming reactor experiments' but provides no concrete method or reference demonstrating that a 0.3% uncertainty is achievable for the specific 3.5 GW PWR at 20 m. Thermal power, fission fractions, and spectrum shape are reactor-specific; other reactor experiments do not directly calibrate this core. Since the seesaw signal is an energy-independent rescaling of the total rate, the projected reach is essentially a rate measurement, making this assumption load-bearing. With the reference 3% flux, the limit degrades to ~0.023 (Table I), corresponding to ~1.1 TeV. Please either provide a realistic error budget fo
  2. [Section III, Eq. (35), Fig. 8] The likelihood includes only a single Gaussian pull on the flux normalization; reactor antineutrino spectral-shape uncertainties and energy-dependent background shapes are not included. The non-unitarity signal is flat in recoil energy, so any shape systematic that shifts the integrated rate in the 0.1-1 keV CEvNS ROI will directly degrade the limit. A covariance-matrix treatment such as the Daya Bay spectrum covariance, or a quantitative argument for why shape uncertainties are negligible, should be added. The assumed flat backgrounds (10 cnts/keV/kg/d below 1 keV, 0.5 above) and 100% detection efficiency are also idealized; the paper should either justify these from CONUS+ background decomposition or show how non-flat backgrounds affect the projections.
  3. [Section IV.B, Fig. 9] The light-sterile projections are internally consistent, but the authors themselves note that the parameter space probed is 'mostly excluded by existing short-baseline experiments.' The claim of complementarity rests on flavor-universality of CEvNS; however, the reactor source is purely electron-antineutrinos and the signal is normalized to the Standard Model prediction. Please clarify the precise sense in which the projected sterile-neutrino limits are complementary, rather than merely weaker, to existing disappearance searches.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Eq. (5)] The third row of the N matrix appears as (alpha31, alpha31, alpha33); the second entry should be alpha32 to match Eq. (6) and the standard parametrization.
  2. [Fig. 9 caption] The caption lists thresholds as '(150, 100, 50) eV' but the text and other figures consistently use (150, 125, 100) eV.
  3. [Table III caption] The caption refers to 'current/realistic/optimistic' configurations while the rows use 'now/soon/future'; harmonize the terminology.
  4. [Section IV.A] The text says limits are extracted from a chi^2 with two degrees of freedom; for the individual one-parameter profiles shown in Figs. 5 and 10, a one-degree-of-freedom Delta_chi^2 is more standard. If the two-degree-of-freedom choice was intentional (conservative), it should be stated explicitly.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; the sensitivity projections are self-contained likelihood analyses with externally imported oscillation constraints.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is not circular. The central observable ratios, (NNU/NSM)_CEνNS ≈ 2α11² − α22² (Eq. 17) and the light-sterile ratio (Eq. 26), are obtained by explicit perturbative expansion of the non-unitarity formalism, with α and sterile parameters entering as free parameters to be constrained by the projected data rather than as quantities defined by the same data being predicted. The oscillation constraints from Ref. [80] are imported as external, independent two-dimensional pull terms, and the paper explicitly quotes the external 90% C.L. limits used. The translation from a limit on (1−αii²) to a mediator mass scale in Eq. (9) is explicitly labeled by the authors as illustrative and not a strict experimental constraint ('Eq. 9 should not be interpreted as a strict experimental constraint on M'), so it is not presented as a derived prediction. The assumed flat backgrounds, 100% efficiency, and 3% flux normalization are modeling inputs for an imaginary future experiment; their fragility is a robustness concern, not a circularity. No load-bearing self-citation, fitted input renamed as prediction, or definitional identity between input and output could be identified in the manuscript.

Assumptions & free parameters 9 free parameters · 8 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The core derivation uses only the standard non-unitary mixing parametrization and the GF redefinition. The paper-specific assumptions are experimental: flat backgrounds, 100% efficiency, normalization-only flux pull, and chosen threshold/exposure grids. The α and sterile parameters are the targets of the sensitivity, not fitted constants; the mass-scale translation is explicitly illustrative. No new particles or mediators are introduced.

free parameters (9)
  • α11
    Model parameter scanned in the seesaw sensitivity; the 90% C.L. output limits on 1−α11² range from ~0.005 (optimized, 500 kg·yr) to ~0.039 (reference, 5 kg·yr).
  • α22
    Model parameter scanned in the seesaw sensitivity; the 90% C.L. output limits on 1−α22² range from ~0.006 to ~0.086 depending on setup.
  • sin²2θ14
    Light-sterile mixing parameter scanned in the sterile-neutrino sensitivity projections.
  • Δm²14
    Mass-squared splitting scanned over the range ~10⁻¹ to 10 eV² in the light-sterile projections.
  • Flat background rate below 1 keV = 10 cnts/keV/kg/d
    Chosen background assumption for the CEνNS ROI; sensitivity numbers depend on it.
  • Flat background rate above 1 keV = 0.5 cnts/keV/kg/d
    Chosen background floor for the EνeS region; varied by a factor 10 in the optimized scenario.
  • Reactor flux normalization uncertainty ΔΦ = 3% (reference); factor-10 improvement studied
    Single Gaussian pull on flux normalization; identified as the dominant systematic.
  • Quenching k parameter = 0.162 ± 0.004
    Input from Germanium quenching measurements; 1% uncertainty used in the likelihood, with factor-2 improvement studied.
  • Threshold/exposure grid = (150,125,100) eV; (5,50,500) kg·yr
    Chosen experimental scenarios; all sensitivity statements are conditional on these choices.
assumptions (8)
  • standard math The full 3×(3+m) neutrino mixing matrix is unitary, so KK† = I₃ₓ₃ (Eq. 2).
    Used to derive P=K†K and the probability prefactors in Eqs. (16)–(21).
  • domain assumption In the seesaw limit, NN† ≈ 1 − O(ε²) and off-diagonal αij ≈ O(ε⁴) (Eqs. 7–8).
    Taken from non-unitary mixing literature (Ref. [3]); truncating at O(ε²) produces the key ratio 2α11²−α22².
  • domain assumption ε ∼ mD/M and mD = Yv with O(1) Yukawa coefficients for translating α limits into mediator mass M (Eq. 9).
    Explicitly illustrative; the authors warn it is not a strict experimental constraint.
  • domain assumption At reactor baselines standard active oscillations are negligible; only ΔE4it is visible (Section II B).
    Yields the simplified survival probability P ≈ 1 − sin²2θ14 sin²(LΔm²41/4Eν).
  • domain assumption Germanium detector response: Helm form factor, Lindhard quenching with k = 0.162, Gaussian resolution with Fano factor (Section III).
    Converts nuclear recoil spectra to ionization spectra; assumed valid down to 100–150 eV.
  • domain assumption Reactor antineutrino spectrum from Daya Bay unfolded IBD data plus summation model below threshold (Section III).
    The analysis uses this spectrum; only its normalization uncertainty is treated as a pull.
  • ad hoc to paper Backgrounds are flat at 10 cnts/keV/kg/d below 1 keV and 0.5 above; detection efficiency is 100% in the ROI.
    Projection assumptions not derived from a full detector simulation; all sensitivity numbers depend on them.
  • ad hoc to paper Systematics enter as independent Gaussian pulls with reactor ON/OFF fitted simultaneously and tOFF = 0.1·tON (Eq. 35).
    Methodological choice in the sensitivity estimate; may underestimate correlated uncertainties.

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abstract

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) has been experimentally confirmed using neutrinos from pion decay at rest, solar neutrinos and reactor antineutrinos. Future CE$\nu$NS experiments will foreseeable lead to precision measurements which will be a powerful tool to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we investigate possible deviations from unitarity in the $3\times3$ leptonic mixing matrix that controls the propagation of active neutrinos. Such deviations may originate from the mixing with additional gauge singlet fermions and depending on their mass scale and mixing, the resulting phenomenology can differ substantially. We explore two well-motivated regimes: the \textit{seesaw limit}, where the new fermions are heavy and kinematically inaccessible, leading to effective deviations from unitarity in the active sector; and the \textit{light sterile limit}, where they are light enough to be produced and participate in neutrino propagation and scattering processes. We show how these scenarios modify both CE$\nu$NS and elastic neutrino--electron scattering (E$\nu e$S), and we present the corresponding sensitivity projections for a future CE$\nu$NS reactor experiment obtained by upscaling the CONUS+ experiment, which reported the first observation of reactor CE$\nu$NS. We identify the leading experimental systematics relevant for such an upscaling and demonstrate the resulting capability to probe TeV-scale new physics. Our results highlight the strong potential of CE$\nu$NS to test the structure of the lepton sector and to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1: Feynman diagram of CE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2: Feynman diagrams for E [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3: Left: Prefactor (2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: Left: Oscillation probability of Eqs. ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5: ∆ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6: ∆ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7: Allowed regions of the alpha parameters for three threshold values and three exposures for our detector. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8: ∆ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9: Experimental sensitivity (exclusion potential) of light sterile neutrino searches of our reference setup [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10: Detailed ∆ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13: Sensitivity of CE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14: Exclusion potential of CE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_14.png]

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