Updated Global 3+1 Analysis of Short-BaseLine Neutrino Oscillations
Abstract
We present the results of an updated fit of short-baseline neutrino oscillation data in the framework of 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing. We first consider and disappearance in the light of the Gallium and reactor anomalies. We discuss the implications of the recent measurement of the reactor spectrum in the NEOS experiment, which shifts the allowed regions of the parameter space towards smaller values of . The beta-decay constraints allow us to limit the oscillation length between about 2 cm and 7 m at for neutrinos with an energy of 1 MeV. We then consider the global fit of the data in the light of the LSND anomaly, taking into account the constraints from and disappearance experiments, including the recent data of the MINOS and IceCube experiments. The combination of the NEOS constraints on and the MINOS and IceCube constraints on lead to an unacceptable appearance-disappearance tension which becomes tolerable only in a pragmatic fit which neglects the MiniBooNE low-energy anomaly. The minimization of the global in the space of the four mixing parameters , , , and leads to three allowed regions with narrow widths at (best-fit), 1.3 (at ), 2.4 (at ) eV. The restrictions of the allowed regions of the mixing parameters with respect to our previous global fits are mainly due to the NEOS constraints. We present a comparison of the allowed regions of the mixing parameters with the sensitivities of ongoing experiments, which show that it is likely that these experiments will determine in a definitive way if the reactor, Gallium and LSND anomalies are due to active-sterile neutrino oscillations or not.
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@article{arxiv.1703.00860,
title = {Updated Global 3+1 Analysis of Short-BaseLine Neutrino Oscillations},
author = {S. Gariazzo and C. Giunti and M. Laveder and Y. F. Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.00860},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
39 pages; improved treatment of the reactor flux uncertainties and other minor corrections