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We investigate the current status of the long-wavelength vacuum oscillation solution to the solar neutrino problem and to what extent the presence of a third neutrino can affect and modify it. Assuming that the smaller mass squared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. M. Gago , H. Nunokawa , R. Zukanovich Funchal

We estimate how well we will know the parameters of solar neutrino oscillations after KamLAND and Borexino. The expected error on Delta m^2 is few per-mille in the VO and QVO regions, few per-cent in the LMA region, and around 10% in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Strumia , Francesco Vissani

The robustness of the large mixing angle (LMA) oscillation (OSC) interpretation of the solar neutrino data is considered in a more general framework where non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) are present. Such interactions may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 O. G. Miranda , M. A. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

We use the recently reported KamLAND measurements on oscillations of reactor anti-neutrinos, together with the data of previously reported solar neutrino experiments, to show that: (1) the total 8B neutrino flux emitted by the Sun is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 John N. Bahcall , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Carlos Pena-Garay

In the forthcoming months, the KamLAND experiment will probe the parameter space of the solar large mixing angle (LMA) MSW solution as the origin of the solar neutrino deficit with $\nuebar$'s from distant nuclear reactors. If however the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 Stefan Schoenert , Thierry Lasserre , Lothar Oberauer

This article summarises the status of the solar neutrino oscillation phenomenology at the end of 2002 in the light of the SNO and KamLAND results. We first present the allowed areas obtained from global solar analysis and demonstrate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Srubabati Goswami

An updated analysis of all available neutrino oscillation evidence in Solar experiments including the latest SNO ES,CC and NC data (254d live time, NaCL enhanced efficiency) is presented. We obtain, for the fraction of active oscillating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Aliani , V. Antonelli , M. Picariello , E. Torrente-Lujan

Assuming the current best-fit solutions to the solar neutrino problem at large mixing angle, we briefly illustrate how prospective data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and from the Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Palazzo , A. M. Rotunno

We reanalyze the non-standard interaction (NSI) solutions to the solar neutrino problem in the light of the latest solar, atmospheric and reactor neutrino data. We show that such solutions, although preferred by the solar data and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 M. M. Guzzo , P. C. de Holanda , M. Maltoni , H. Nunokawa , M. A. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

There are reasons to believe that mechanisms exist in the solar interior which lead to random density perturbations in the resonant region of the Large Mixing Angle solution to the solar neutrino problem. We find that, in the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 M. M. Guzzo , P. C. de Holanda , N. Reggiani

We perform an updated phenomenological analysis of the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) solutions of the solar neutrino problem, assuming oscillations between two and three neutrino families. The analysis includes the total rates of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , D. Montanino , A. Palazzo

We present an updated analysis of all available solar and reactor neutrino data, emphasizing in particular the totality of the KamLAND (314d live time) results and including for the first time the solar $SNO$ (391d live time, phase II…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Antonelli , E. Torrente-Lujan

The large mixing (mass)(LMA)-MSW model of solar neutrinos (nue) is now widely held to be near definitive, based on global consistency with data. No physical effect, however, compels its uniqueness. The present search for an explicitly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. S. Raghavan

We perform global analysis of the solar neutrino data including the day and night spectra of events at SNO. In the context of two active neutrino mixing, the best fit of the data is provided by the LMA MSW solution with Delta m^2 = 6.15…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. C. de Holanda , A. Yu. Smirnov

We investigate the possibility of detecting solar antineutrinos with the KamLAND experiment. These antineutrinos are predicted by spin-flavor oscillations at a significant rate even if this mechanism is not the leading solution to the SNP.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-06-22 P. Aliani , V. Antonelli , M. Picariello , E. Torrente-Lujan

Possible mixing of the active and sterile neutrinos has been considered both in the single Delta m^2 approximation and in the case of more than one Delta m^2. We perform global fit of the available solar neutrino data with free boron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. de Holanda , A. Yu. Smirnov

We present a short review of the existing evidence in favor of neutrino mass and neutrino oscillations which come from different kinds of experiments. We focus our attention in particular on solar neutrinos, presenting a review of some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-06-22 P. Aliani , V. Antonelli , R. Ferrari , M. Picariello , E. Torrente-Lujan

Motivated by the indication that both the atmospheric and the solar neutrino puzzles may simultaneously be solved by (vacuum as well as matter-induced resonant) oscillations of two generations of neutrinos with large mixing, we have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 C. Giunti , C. W. Kim , J. D. Kim

The three neutrino Zee model and its extension including three active and one sterile species are studied in the light of new neutrino oscillation data. We obtain analytical relations for the mixing angle in solar oscillations in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Probir Roy , Sudhir K. Vempati

We investigate the possibility of detecting solar electron antineutrinos with the KamLAND experiment. These electron antineutrinos are predicted by spin-flavor oscillations at a significant rate even if this mechanism is not the leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 E. Torrente-Lujan