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Neutrino Oscillation, in which a given flavour of neutrino transforms into another is a powerful tool for probing small neutrino masses. The intrinsic neutrino properties involved are neutrino mass squared difference $\Delta m^2$ and the…
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We consider neutrino oscillations in non-uniform matter in a quantum field theoretic (QFT) approach, in which neutrino production, propagation and detection are considered as a single process. We find the conditions under which the…
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Differential evolution (DE) is an effective population-based metaheuristic algorithm for solving complex optimisation problems. However, the performance of DE is sensitive to the mutation operator. In this paper, we propose a novel DE…
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Recently, the JUNO experiment published its measurement of the solar neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $\sin^2\theta_{12}$ based on 59 days of data, with central values differing by $0.2\sigma$ from those released by the…
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Differential equations are important tools to portray dynamic problems, and are widely used in finance, engineering and biology. Here, multiple dynamic differential models were built innovatively, and discretized with the Runge-Kutta…
The theory of neutrino oscillations explains changes in neutrino flavor, count rates, and spectra from solar, atmospheric, accelerator, and reactor neutrinos. These oscillations are characterized by three mixing angles and two mass-squared…