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Are there two sterile neutrinos cooscillating with $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v1

Abstract

The existence of two sterile neutrinos νs\nu_s and νs\nu'_s (blind to all Standard-Model interactions) is shown to be implied by a model of fermion "texture" that we develop since some time. They may mix nearly maximally with two of three conventional neutrinos, say νe\nu_e and νμ\nu_\mu, thus leading to neutrino oscillations, say νeνs\nu_e \to \nu_s and νμνs\nu_\mu \to \nu'_s, with nearly maximal amplitudes. Then, they can be responsible for the observed deficits of solar νe\nu_e's and atmospheric νμ\nu_\mu's, respectiv% ely, but by themselves do not help to explain the LSND results for νμνe\nu_\mu \to \nu_e oscillations. On the other hand, they are consistent with the CHOOZ negative result. At the moment, the experiment cannot decide, whether the deficit of atmospheric νμ\nu_\mu's, confirmed by the recent \SK findings, has to be related to the oscillations νμντ\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau or νμνs\nu_\mu \to \nu'_s. In the last Section of the paper, a new notion of "non-Abelian spin-1/2 fermions" is presented in the context of a composite option for fermion families.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808307,
  title  = {Are there two sterile neutrinos cooscillating with $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$?},
  author = {Wojciech Krolikowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808307},
  year   = {2016}
}

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