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Solar neutrino oscillation parameters after first KamLAND results

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-07 v2

Abstract

We analyze the energy spectrum of reactor neutrino events recently observed in the Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND) and combine them with solar and terrestrial neutrino data, in the context of two- and three-family active neutrino oscillations. In the 2-neutrino case, we find that the solution to the solar neutrino problem at large mixing angle (LMA) is basically split into two sub-regions, that we denote as LMA-I and LMA-II. The LMA-I solution, characterized by lower values of the squared neutrino mass gap, is favored by the global data fit. This picture is not significantly modified in the 3-neutrino mixing case. A brief discussion is given about the discrimination of the LMA-I and LMA-II solutions with future KamLAND data. In both the 2- and 3-neutrino cases, we present a detailed analysis of the post-KamLAND bounds on the oscillation parameters.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0212127,
  title  = {Solar neutrino oscillation parameters after first KamLAND results},
  author = {G. L. Fogli and E. Lisi and A. Marrone and D. Montanino and A. Palazzo and A. M. Rotunno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0212127},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Revised version. Two figures added