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Imprint of SNO neutral current data on the solar neutrino problem

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-15 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We perform a global analysis in the framework of two active neutrino oscillations of all solar neutrino data, including the recent SNO day and night spectra (comprised of the charged current (CC), elastic scattering (ES) and neutral current (NC) events), the Super-Kamiokande (SK) day and night spectra (from 1496 days) and the updated SAGE results. We find that the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) solution is selected at the 99% C.L.; the best-fit parameters are \Delta m^2=5.6 \times 10^{-5} eV^2 and \theta=32^{\circ}. No solutions with \theta\geq \pi/4 are allowed at the 5\sigma C.L. Oscillations to a pure sterile state are excluded at 5.3\sigma, but a sizeable sterile neutrino component could still be present in the solar flux.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0204253,
  title  = {Imprint of SNO neutral current data on the solar neutrino problem},
  author = {V. Barger and D. Marfatia and K. Whisnant and B. P. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0204253},
  year   = {2009}
}

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