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Cornering (3+1) sterile neutrino schemes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Using the most recent atmospheric neutrino data, as well as short-baseline, long-baseline and tritium β\beta-decay data we show that the joint interpretation of the LSND, solar and atmospheric neutrino anomalies in (3+1) sterile neutrino schemes is severely disfavored, in contrast to the theoretically favored (2+2) schemes.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0107150,
  title  = {Cornering (3+1) sterile neutrino schemes},
  author = {M. Maltoni and T. Schwetz and J. W. F. Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0107150},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, 4 figures, v3: extended tritium decay analysis, small corrections in Fig. 2 and Eq.(4), version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B