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Matter effects for `just so' oscillations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the effect of the matter term on the evolution of the solar neutrinos when the neutrino parameters are those of the `just-so' case. The extreme non-adiabatic effects at the edge of the sun reduce the expression for the survival probability in the just-so case to that of the vacuum case. This conclusion is independent of the width of the extreme non-adiabatic region, which is a function of the density profile of the sun beyond r>0.9Rsr > 0.9 R_s. However, in its propagation, neutrino encounters regions of moderate (non-extreme) non-adiabticity. Neutrino traversal through these regions give corrections to the survival probability which are profile dependent.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0004204,
  title  = {Matter effects for `just so' oscillations},
  author = {Mohan Narayan and S. Uma Sankar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0004204},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages including one figure