Published July 1, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Possible scenario for MaVaN's as the only neutrino flavor conversion mechanism in the Sun

  • 1. Instituto de Física ''Gleb Wataghin'', Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil)

Description

Mass Varying neutrino mechanisms were proposed to link the neutrino mass scale with dark energy, addressing the coincidence problem. In some scenarios this mass can present a dependence on the baryonic density felt by neutrinos, creating an effective neutrino mass that depends both on the neutrino and baryonic densities. In this article we investigate the possibility that a neutrino effective mass in matter in addition to a very small mass squared difference in vacuum (O(10−9 eV2)) are the main flavour conversion mechanism acting in neutrino oscillation experiments. We present a parameterization on the environmental effects on neutrino mass that produces the right flavour conversion probabilities for solar and terrestrial neutrinos experiments

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/024

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2009
Journal Issue
07
Journal Page Range
p. 024
ISSN
1475-7516