Interpreting the Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v3
Abstract
We suggest that the atmospheric neutrino anomaly observed in the Super-Kamiokande (and other) experiments results from the combined effects of muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino oscillations with a Delta m^2 value of approximately 0.4 eV^2 and oscillations between muon neutrinos and electron neutrinos (and vice-versa) with 0.0001 < Delta m^2 < 0.001 eV^2. With an appropriate choice of a three-neutrino mixing matrix, such a hypothesis is consistent with essentially all neutrino observations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9806534,
title = {Interpreting the Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly},
author = {R. P. Thun and S. McKee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9806534},
year = {2009}
}
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12 pages, 2 eps figures, Latex2e, elsart style, submitted to Physics Letters B --REV2-- Updated figure 1 and added figure 2: Super-K single R data