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NSI can improve LMA predictions: neutrino decay in solar matter?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-08-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate the prospects for non-standard interactions (NSI) in solar neutrino propagation and detection and find that these may solve the tension between the observed flatness of the SuperKamiokande electron spectrum and its LMA prediction which has a clear negative slope. Also the Cl rate prediction from NSI comes within 1σ\sigma of its experimental value instead of the LMA one which lies more than 2σ\sigma above. A remarkable consequence of NSI for solar neutrinos is the possibility of neutrino decay into majorons and antineutrinos whose appearance probability is calculated but found to be rather small.

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@article{arxiv.1012.3842,
  title  = {NSI can improve LMA predictions: neutrino decay in solar matter?},
  author = {Joao Pulido and C. R. Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3842},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

3 pages, 3 figures, Parallel talk in "NOW 2010" Neutrino Oscillation Workshop, Conca Specchiulla (Otranto, Lecce, Italy), September 4-11, 2010