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Variations around the average density and composition of the Earth mantle may affect long-baseline (anti)neutrino oscillations through matter effects. For baselines not exceeding a few thousand km, such effects are known to be very small,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Fogli , G. Lettera , E. Lisi

We discuss unitarity tests of the neutrino mixing (PMNS) matrix. We show that the combination of solar neutrino experiments, medium-baseline and short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments make it possible to perform the first direct…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-28 X. Qian , C. Zhang , M. Diwan , P. Vogel

We use solar neutrino data to derive stringent bounds on Majorana neutrino transition moments (TMs). Such moments, if present, would contribute to the neutrino-electron scattering cross section and hence alter the signal observed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 M. A. Tortola

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an ambitious multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine the neutrino mass ordering, with an impressive energy resolution goal of at least 3% at 1 MeV. To achieve a photon…

Neutrino oscillation is a significant physical process worthy of in-depth exploration. In this paper, we investigate the matter effect of massive neutrinos in a scalar-type ultra-light dark matter and calculate the neutrino oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Wei Chao

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an experiment proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and probe the fundamental properties of neutrino oscillation. The JUNO central detector is a spherical liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-15 Xinying Li , Ziyan Deng , Liangjian Wen , Weidong Li , Zhengyun You , Chunxu Yu , Yumei Zhang , Tao Lin

The JUNO collaboration has released its first measurement of reactor neutrino oscillations results, obtaining $\sin^2\theta_{12} = 0.3092\pm 0.0087$, an improvement in precision by a factor of 1.6 over previous combined results. We confront…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiao-Gang He

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-19 Guihong Huang

We explore the impact of the data from the KamLAND experiment in constraining neutrino mass and mixing angles involved in solar neutrino oscillations. In particular we discuss the precision with which we can determine the the mass squared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Srubabati Goswami , Abhijit Bandyopadhyay , Sandhya Choubey

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) project aims at probing, at the same time, the two main frequencies of three-flavor neutrino oscillations, as well as their interference related to the mass ordering (normal or inverted),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-09 Francesco Capozzi , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone

In the past few decades, numerous searches have been made for the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) process, aiming to establish whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles (Majorana neutrinos), but no 0$\nu\beta\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-06-29 Jie Zhao , Liang-Jian Wen , Yi-Fang Wang , Jun Cao

We discuss the physics potential of intermediate $L \sim 20 \div 30$ km baseline experiments at reactor facilities, assuming that the solar neutrino oscillation parameters $\Delta m^2_{\odot}$ and $\theta_{\odot}$ lie in the high-LMA…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-11 Sandhya Choubey , S. T. Petcov , M. Piai

Motivated by the precise measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters at Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), we investigate the possibility of probing the unitarity violation of lepton flavor mixing matrix solely with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Jihong Huang , Shun Zhou

We determine the possible values of the effective Majorana neutrino mass $|< m > |= |\sum_j U_{ej}^2 m_j|$ in the different phenomenologically viable three and four-neutrino scenarios. The quantities $U_{\alpha j}$ ($\alpha =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. M. Bilenky , C. Giunti , W. Grimus , B. Kayser , S. T. Petcov

Solar neutrino physics enters a stage of precision measurements. In this connection we present a precise analytic description of the neutrino conversion in the context of LMA MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem. Using the adiabatic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. de Holanda , Wei Liao , A. Yu. Smirnov

Long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments require external constraints on $\sin^2\theta_{12}$ and $\Delta m_{21}^2$ to make precision measurements of the leptonic mixing matrix. These constraints come from measurements of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-06 Andres Lopez Moreno

We consider three active flavor neutrino oscillations where both the mass-square differences play a role in atmospheric neutrino problem. We calculate the matter effects arising due to propagation through earth. We demonstrate that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Mohan Narayan , S. Uma Sankar , IIT Bombay

We consider the problem of determination of the neutrino mass ordering via precise study of the vacuum neutrino oscillations in the JUNO and other future medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments. We are proposing to resolve neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 S. M. Bilenky

We present simple analytical approximations to matter-effect corrected effective neutrino mixing-angles and effective mass-squared-differences. The expressions clarify the dependence of oscillation probabilities in matter to the mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Minako Honda , Yee Kao , Naotoshi Okamura , Tatsu Takeuchi

Effects of the dense matter can induce the neutrino decay even if neutrinos are stable in vacuum. This is due to coherent interactions with matter which lead to energy level-splitting between the neutrino and antineutrino states and thereby…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zurab G. Berezhiani , Anna Rossi