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We present an updated analysis of all the data available about solar neutrinos, including the charged current SNO results. The best fit of the data is obtained in the Large Mixing Angle region, but different solutions are still possible. We…

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

I propose a simple extension of the bi-maximal neutrino mixing pattern, allowing slight coupling between solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations as well as large CP violation. The new scenario is compatible with either the vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhi-zhong Xing

There is no consistent solar model which can describe all experimental data on the solar neutrinos. The problem can be formulated essentially in a model independent way. The key points are the comparison of the Homestake and the Kamiokande…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Constraints on the core temperature (T_c) of the Sun and on neutrino- oscillation parameters are obtained from the existing solar neutrino data, including the recent GALLEX and Kamiokande III results. (1) A purely astrophysical solution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-13 S. A. Bludman , N. Hata , D. C. Kennedy , P. G. Langacker

The atmospheric neutrino oscillations and the vacuum oscillation solution of the solar neutrino problem can be consistently described by a doubly or triply degenerate neutrino spectrum as long as the high level of degeneracy required is not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Barbieri , G. Ross , A. Strumia

We examine the maximal $\nu_e --> \nu_s$ and $\nu_e --> \nu_\mu,\tau$ oscillation solutions to the solar neutrino problem. These solutions lead to roughly a 50% solar flux reduction for the large parameter range $3\times 10^{-10} < \delta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Foot

The analysis of the resonant spin-flavour (RSF) solutions to the solar neutrino problem in the framework of simplest analytic solutions to the solar magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations is presented. We performed the global fit of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 T. I. Rashba , O. G. Miranda , C. Penya-Garay , V. B. Semikoz , J. W. F. Valle

We study the effect of random matter density fluctuations in the sun on resonant neutrino conversion in matter by solving numerically the evolution equation for the neutrino system including the full effect of the random matter density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Bykov , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , C. Peña-Garay , V. Yu. Popov , V. B. Semikoz

A detailed study of the solar neutrino vacuum oscillation was made taking into account three neutrino flavours and the seasonal effect. This analysis was established for a range of the mixing parameter sin^2(2\phi), that is concerned with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. E. C. Lima , H. M. Portella

We discuss the status of the solutions of the solar neutrino problem in terms of oscillations of $\nu_e$ into active or sterile neutrinos. We present the results of a global fit to the full data set corresponding to the latest data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , C. Peña-Garay

We perform a global analysis of the latest solar neutrino data including the SNO result on the CC-event rate. This result further favors the LMA solution of the solar neutrino problem. The best fit values of parameters we find are: \Delta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. I. Krastev , A. Yu. Smirnov

The results of solar neutrino data from the first phase of Super-Kamiokande are presented. Super-Kamiokande can measure not only the solar neutrino flux but also its energy spectrum and its time variations such as day vs night and seasonal…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Koshio

We present "Before and After" global oscillation solutions, as well as predicted "Before and After" values and ranges for ten future solar neutrino observables (for BOREXINO, KamLAND, SNO, and a generic p-p neutrino detector). We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 John N. Bahcall , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Carlos Peña-Garay

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

The results of a solar model independent analysis of the existing solar neutrino data under the assumption of MSW transitions in matter or vacuum oscillations (in the cases of $\nu_{e}$--$\nu_{\mu}(\nu_{\tau})$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. M. Bilenky , C. Giunti

We present the evolution equation describing MSW conversion, derived in the framework of the Schr\"odinger approach, in the presence of matter density fluctuations. Then we analyse the effect of such fluctuations in the MSW scenario as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Anna Rossi

Various theoretical uncertainties in the standard solar model and in the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) analysis are discussed. It is shown that two methods of estimating the solar neutrino flux uncertainties are equivalent: (a) a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Naoya Hata , Paul Langacker

There are large uncertainties in the predictions of the boron neutrino flux from the Sun which cannot be considered as being of purely statistical origin. We treat the magnitude of this flux, $\Phi_B$, as a parameter to be found from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 P. I. Krastev , A. Yu. Smirnov

Results for solar neutrino detection from the SuperKamiokande collaboration have been presented recently while those from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are expected in the near future. These experiments are sensitive to the 8B neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Debasish Majumdar , Amitava Raychaudhuri

By comparing the neutrino spectra measured by SNO and Super Kamiokande, we obtain inequalities between the ratios of observed rate to SSM rate for the two experiments. These inequalities apply to a possibly energy-dependent reduction of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Waikwok Kwong , S. P. Rosen