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Pragmatic View of Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-07 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present the results of global analyses of short-baseline neutrino oscillation data in 3+1, 3+2 and 3+1+1 neutrino mixing schemes. We show that the data do not allow us to abandon the simplest 3+1 scheme in favor of the more complex 3+2 and 3+1+1 schemes. We present the allowed region in the 3+1 parameter space, which is located at Δm412\Delta{m}^2_{41} between 0.82 and 2.19 eV2\text{eV}^2 at 3σ3\sigma. The case of no oscillations is disfavored by about 6σ6\sigma, which decreases dramatically to about 2σ2\sigma if the LSND data are not considered. Hence, new high-precision experiments are needed to check the LSND signal.

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@article{arxiv.1308.5288,
  title  = {Pragmatic View of Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations},
  author = {C. Giunti and M. Laveder and Y. F. Li and H. W. Long},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5288},
  year   = {2013}
}

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6 pages. Final version published in Phys. Rev. D 88, 073008 (2013)