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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.013006;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0205053v3;
Publishing Information
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35075015
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHARGED CURRENTS; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; ELECTRON NEUTRINOS; ENERGY SPECTRA; MEV RANGE; MIXING; NEUTRAL CURRENTS; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS; COSMIC RADIATION; CURRENTS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA
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- Notes
- (c) 2003 The American Physical Society