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Title: | Measuring the deviation of the 2-3 lepton mixing from maximal with atmospheric neutrinos |
Author: | González García, Ma. Concepción Maltoni, Michele Smirnov, Alexei Yu |
Keywords: | Partícules (Física nuclear) Astrofísica nuclear Astronomia Particles (Nuclear physics) Nuclear astrophysics Astronomia |
Issue Date: | 2004 |
Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
Abstract: | The measurement of the deviation of the 2-3 leptonic mixing from maximal, D_23 = 1/2 - sin^2(theta_23), is one of the key issues for understanding the origin of the neutrino masses and mixing. In the three-neutrino context we study the dependence of various observables in the atmospheric neutrinos on D_23. We perform a global three-neutrino analysis of the atmospheric and reactor neutrino data taking into account the effects of both the oscillations driven by the "solar" parameters (Delta_m_21^2 and theta_12) and the 1-3 mixing. The departure from the one-dominant mass scale approximation results into the shift of the 2-3 mixing from maximal by Delta_sin^2(theta_23) ~ 0.04, so that D_23 ~ 0.04 +- 0.07 (1 sigma). Though value of the shift is not statistically significant, the tendency is robust. The shift is induced by the excess of the e-like events in the sub-GeV sample. We show that future large scale water Cherenkov detectors can determine D_23 with accuracy of a few percent, comparable with the sensitivity of future long baseline experiments. Moreover, the atmospheric neutrinos will provide unique information on the sign of the deviation (octant of theta_23). |
Note: | Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.093005 |
It is part of: | Physical Review D, 2004, vol. 70, núm. 9, p. 093005-1-093005-10 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12518 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.093005 |
ISSN: | 0556-2821 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica) |
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