Published September 20, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Challenging Lorentz noninvariant neutrino oscillations without neutrino masses

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (United States)

Description

We show that the combined data from solar, long-baseline and reactor neutrino experiments can exclude the generalized bicycle model of Lorentz noninvariant direction-dependent and/or direction-independent oscillations of massless neutrinos. This model has five parameters, which is more than is needed in standard oscillation phenomenology with neutrino masses. Solar data alone are sufficient to exclude the pure direction-dependent case. The combination of solar and long-baseline data rules out the pure direction-independent case. With the addition of KamLAND data, a mixture of direction-dependent and direction-independent terms in the effective Hamiltonian is also excluded

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.07.047

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.07.047;
arXiv
arXiv:0706.1085v2;
PII
S0370-2693(07)00908-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
653
Journal Issue
2-4
Journal Page Range
p. 267-277
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39051844
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
HAMILTONIANS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MASS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NEUTRINOS
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM OPERATORS

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