Published June 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Solar atmosphere neutrino oscillations

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione INFN, Via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica and Sezione INFN di Lecce, Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce (Italy)
  • 3. Particle Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510-0500 (United States)

Description

The Sun is a source of high energy neutrinos (E>10 GeV) produced by cosmic ray interactions in the solar atmosphere. We study the impact of three-flavor oscillations on the solar atmosphere neutrino fluxes observable at Earth. We find that peculiar matter oscillation effects in the Sun do exist, but are significantly suppressed by averaging over the production region and over the neutrino and antineutrino components. In particular, the relation between the neutrino fluxes at the Sun and at the Earth can be approximately expressed in terms of phase-averaged 'vacuum' oscillations, dominated by a single mixing parameter (the angle θ23)

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.02.088;
PII
S0920-5632(07)00163-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
168
Journal Page Range
p. 283-285
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
Neutrino oscillation workshop
Dates
9-15 Sep 2006
Place
Conca Specchiulla, Otranto (Italy)

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