Published September 6, 1999 | Version v1
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Neutrino conversions in solar random magnetic fields

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We consider the effect of a random magnetic field in the convective zone of the Sun super-imposed to a regular magnetic field on resonant neutrino spin-flavor oscillations. We argue for the existence of a field of strongly chaotic nature at the bottom of the convective zone. In contrast to previous attempts we employ a model motivated regular magnetic field profile: it is a static field solution to the solar equilibrium hydro-magnetic equations. These solutions have been known for a long time in the literature. We show for the first time that in addition they are twisting solutions. In this scenario electron antineutrinos are produced through cascades like νeL → νμL → V-tildeeR, The detection of V-tildeeR at Earth would be a long-awaited signature of the Majorana nature of the neutrino. The expected signals in the different experiments (SK, GALLEX-SAGE, Homestake) are obtained as a function of the level of noise, regular magnetic field and neutrino mixing parameters. Previous results obtained for small mixing and ad-hoc regular magnetic profiles are reobtained. We confirm the strong suppression for a large part of the parameter space of the V-tildeeR-flux for high energy boron neutrinos in agreement with present data of the SK experiment. We find that MSW (Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein) regions (Δm2 congruent with ]0-5 eV2, both small and large mixing solutions) are stable up to very large levels of noise (P = 0.7-0.8) but they are acceptable from the point of view of antineutrino production only for moderate levels of noise (P congruent with 0.95). For strong noise and a reasonable regular magnetic field, any parameter region (Δm2, sin2 2θ) is excluded. As a consequence, we are allowed to reverse the problem and to put limits on the r.m.s. field strength and transition magnetic moments by demanding a particle physics solution to the SNP in this scenario

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S0550321399003521;

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Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
556
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 353-372
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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Copyright (c) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.