Published January 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Determination of neutrino mixing parameters after SNO oscillation evidence

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano, and INFN Sezione Milano, Via Celoria 16, Milan (Italy)
  • 2. CERN TH-Division, CH-1202 Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica Teorica C-XI, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid (Spain)

Description

An updated analysis of all available neutrino oscillation evidence in solar experiments (SK day and night spectra, global rates from Homestake, SAGE, and GALLEX) including the latest SNO CC and NC data is presented. Assuming that the shape of the SNO CC energy spectrum is undistorted and using the information provided by SNO we obtain, for the fraction of electron neutrinos remaining in the solar beam at energies > or approx. 5 MeV, φCC/φNC=0.34-0.04+0.05, which is nominally many standard deviations away from the standard value. The fraction of oscillating neutrinos into active ones is computed to be (ΦNC-ΦCC)/(ΦSSM-ΦCC)=0.92-0.20+0.39, nearly 5σ deviations from the pure sterile oscillation case. The data are still compatible with an important fraction of sterile component in the solar beam (up to 20%-30% of the total). In the framework of two active neutrino oscillations we determine individual neutrino mixing parameters and their errors in the region of no spectrum distortion (Δ<1%); we obtain Δm2=4.5-1.4+2.7x10-5 eV2, tan2θ=0.40-0.08+0.10. These parameters are in agreement with those ones of the best χ2 solution in the LMA region

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 013006-013006.5
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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