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Three Generation Neutrino Oscillation Parameters after SNO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We examine the solar neutrino problem in the context of the realistic three neutrino mixing scenario including the SNO charged current (CC) rate. The two independent mass squared differences Δm212\Delta m^2_{21} and Δm312Δm322\Delta m^2_{31} \approx \Delta m^2_{32} are taken to be in the solar and atmospheric ranges respectively. We incorporate the constraints on Δ\Deltam312^2_{31} as obtained by the SuperKamiokande atmospheric neutrino data and determine the allowed values of Δm212\Delta m^2_{21}, θ12\theta_{12} and θ13\theta_{13} from a combined analysis of solar and CHOOZ data. Our aim is to probe the changes in the values of the mass and mixing parameters with the inclusion of the SNO data as well as the changes in the two-generation parameter region obtained from the solar neutrino analysis with the inclusion of the third generation. We find that the inclusion of the SNO CC rate in the combined solar + CHOOZ analysis puts a more restrictive bound on θ13\theta_{13}. Since the allowed values of θ13\theta_{13} are constrained to very small values by the CHOOZ experiment there is no qualitative change over the two generation allowed regions in the Δm212tan2θ12\Delta m^2_{21} - \tan^2 \theta_{12} plane. The best-fit comes in the LMA region and no allowed area is obtained in the SMA region at 3σ\sigma level from combined solar and CHOOZ analysis.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0110307,
  title  = {Three Generation Neutrino Oscillation Parameters after SNO},
  author = {Abhijit Bandyopadhyay and Sandhya Choubey and Srubabati Goswami and Kamales Kar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0110307},
  year   = {2009}
}

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