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Effect of compactification of twisted toroidal extra-dimension on sterile neutrino

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a toroidal extra-dimensional space with shape moduli θ\theta which is the angle between the two large extra dimensions R1R_1 and R2R_2 (twisted LED with δ=2\delta=2). The Kaluza-Klein (KK) compactification results in a tower of KK bulk neutrinos which are sterile in nature and couple to the active neutrinos in the brane. The active-sterile mixing probability strongly depends on the angle θ\theta due to changing pattern of KK mass gaps which leads to level crossing. Considering only the first two lowest KK states in analogy with (3+2)(3+2) model, it is shown that Uα4>Uα5|U_{\alpha 4}| > |U_{\alpha 5}| when θ=π/2\theta = \pi/2 corresponding to the case of a normal torus. Since Δ142<Δ152\Delta_{14}^2 < \Delta_{15}^2, this is expected in normal LED model as higher the sterile mass lower is the mixing probability. Contrary to this expectation, it is found that there exists a range in θ\theta where Uα5Uα4|U_{\alpha 5}| \ge |U_{\alpha 4}| even though Δm142<Δm152\Delta m_{14}^2 < \Delta m_{15}^2 which has been demonstrated qantitatively using fourier transformation of reactor anti-neutrino spectrum. This is an important observation which can be linked to the oscillation parameters extracted by several (3+2)(3+2) global analyses of the neutrino and anti-neutrino data obtained from the short base line measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1606.07625,
  title  = {Effect of compactification of twisted toroidal extra-dimension on sterile neutrino},
  author = {Ajit Kumar Mohanty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07625},
  year   = {2016}
}

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10 pages, 6 figs