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Updating $\nu_{3}$ lifetime from solar antineutrino spectra

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-27 v2

Abstract

We study the production of antineutrinos from the solar neutrinos due the Majorana neutrino decays of neutrino to antineutrino. Using the antineutrino spectra from KamLAND and Borexino, we present newest limits on the lifetime of ν3\nu_{3} in this scenario. We consider ν3νˉ1+X\nu_{3} \rightarrow \bar{\nu}_{1} + X and ν3νˉ2+X\nu_{3} \rightarrow \bar{\nu}_{2} + X channels assuming scalar or pseudo-scalar interactions. For hierarchical mass-splittings, the limits obtained by us are τ3/m3 7×105s/eV\tau_{3}/m_{3}~\geq 7\times 10^{-5} s/eV and τ3/m3 1×105s/eV\tau_{3}/m_{3}~\geq 1\times 10^{-5} s/eV for the two channels at 90%90\% C.L. We found that the newest bound is five orders of magnitude better than the atmospheric and long-baseline bounds.

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@article{arxiv.2109.13272,
  title  = {Updating $\nu_{3}$ lifetime from solar antineutrino spectra},
  author = {R. Picoreti and D. Pramanik and P. C. de Holanda and O. L. G. Peres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13272},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures