Published September 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Lorentz noninvariant oscillations of massless neutrinos are excluded

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

Description

The bicycle model of Lorentz noninvariant neutrino oscillations without neutrino masses naturally predicts maximal mixing and a 1/E dependence of the oscillation argument for νμ→ντ oscillations of atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos, but cannot also simultaneously fit the data for solar neutrinos and KamLAND. Within the standard model extension, we examine all 19 possible structures of the effective Hamiltonian for Lorentz noninvariant oscillations of massless neutrinos that naturally have a 1/E dependence at high neutrino energy. Because of the lack of any evidence for direction dependence, we consider only direction-independent oscillations. Although we find a number of models with a 1/E dependence for atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos, none can also simultaneously fit solar and KamLAND data.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 056014-056014.16
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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