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Sterile Neutrinos and Future Solar Neutrino Experiments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-24 v1

Abstract

It is shown that future solar neutrino experiments (SNO, Super-Kamiokande and others), in which high energy neutrinos will be detected (mostly from 8B decay), may allow to answer in a model independent way the question whether there are transitions of solar νe\nu_e's into sterile states. No assumptions about the initial flux of 8B neutrinos are done. Lower bounds for the probability of transition of solar νe\nu_e's into all possible sterile states are derived and expressed through measurable quantities.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9310314,
  title  = {Sterile Neutrinos and Future Solar Neutrino Experiments},
  author = {S. M. Bilenky and C. Giunti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9310314},
  year   = {2009}
}

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DFTT 62/93. 11 pages, 1 figure (included). Compressed Postscript file. If you prefer the uncompressed postscript file or a hardcopy of the paper, please write to [email protected]