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Title: | Phenomenology of maximal and near-maximal lepton mixing |
Author: | González García, Ma. Concepción Peña Garay, Carlos Nir, Yosef Smirnov, Alexei Yu |
Keywords: | Fenomenologia (Física) Partícules (Física nuclear) Astrofísica nuclear Leptons Radiació solar Phenomenological theory (Physics) Particles (Nuclear physics) Nuclear astrophysics Leptons (Nuclear physics) Solar radiation |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
Publisher: | The American Physical Society |
Abstract: | We study the phenomenological consequences of maximal and near-maximal mixing of the electron neutrino with other ($x$=tau and/or muon) neutrinos. We describe the deviations from maximal mixing in terms of a parameter $\epsilon\equiv1-2\sin^2\theta_{ex}$ and quantify the present experimental status for $|\epsilon|<0.3$. We find that the global analysis of solar neutrino data allows maximal mixing with confidence level better than 99% for $10^{-8}$ eV$^2\lsim\Delta m^2\lsim2\times10^{-7}$ eV$^2$. In the mass ranges $\Delta m^2\gsim 1.5\times10^{-5}$ eV$^2$ and $4\times10^{-10}$ eV$^2\lsim\Delta m^2\lsim2\times10^{-7}$ eV$^2$ the full interval $|\epsilon|<0.3$ is allowed within 4$\sigma$(99.995 % CL). We suggest ways to measure $\epsilon$ in future experiments. The observable that is most sensitive to $\epsilon$ is the rate [NC]/[CC] in combination with the Day-Night asymmetry in the SNO detector. With theoretical and statistical uncertainties, the expected accuracy after 5 years is $\Delta \epsilon\sim 0.07$. We also discuss the effects of maximal and near-maximal $\nu_e$-mixing in atmospheric neutrinos, supernova neutrinos, and neutrinoless double beta decay. |
Note: | Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.013007 |
It is part of: | Physical Review D, 2000, vol. 63, núm. 1, p. 013007-1-013007-23 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12506 |
Related resource: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.013007 |
ISSN: | 0556-2821 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica) |
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