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Low Energy Solar Neutrinos and Spin Flavour Precession

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

The possibility that the Gallium data effectively indicates a time modulation of the solar active neutrino flux in possible connection to solar activity is examined on the light of spin flavour precession to sterile neutrinos as a subdominant process in addition to oscillations. We distinguish two sets of Gallium data, relating them to high and low solar activity. Such modulation affects principally the low energy neutrinos (pppp and 7Be^7 Be) so that the effect, if it exists, will become most clear in the forthcoming Borexino and LENS experiments and will provide evidence for a neutrino magnetic moment. Using a model previously developed, we perform two separate fits in relation to low and high activity periods to all solar neutrino data. These fits include the very recent charged current spectrum from the SNO experiment. We also derive the model predictions for Borexino and LENS experiments.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0504069,
  title  = {Low Energy Solar Neutrinos and Spin Flavour Precession},
  author = {Bhag C. Chauhan and Joao Pulido and R. S. Raghavan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0504069},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 5 ps figures, 1 eps figure, final version to be published in JHEP