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It has been claimed that the coherent scattering of relic neutrinos with the Earth will result in a neutrino-antineutrino asymmetry of $\mathcal{O}(10^{-4})$ on the Earth surface, which is five orders of magnitude larger than the naive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-07 Guo-yuan Huang

We derive predictions for the Nadir angle (theta(n)) dependence of the ratio N(mu)/N(e) of the rates of the mu-like and e-like multi-GeV events measured in water-Cerenkov detectors in the case of 3-neutrino oscillations of the atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Bernabeu , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , S. T. Petcov

We point out that the measurement of the $L/E$ distribution of atmospheric neutrino events with sufficient resolution in order to observe the characteristic modulations of neutrino oscillations would provide a unique way to test the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Mannocchi , L. Periale , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , S. Ragazzi , A. Rubbia

A short introduction summarizes the experimental high energy field of neutrino oscillations and the oscillation notations. Then the results obtained by experiments on atmospheric neutrino oscillations are summarized and discussed. At the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-04 Giorgio Giacomelli

Limits on $\nu_\mu (\overline{\nu}_\mu) \to \nu_e (\overline{\nu}_e)$ oscillations based on a statistical separation of $\nu_e N$ charged current interactions in the CCFR detector at Fermilab are presented. $\nu_e$ interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 NuTeV Collaboration , A. Romosan

The results obtained by several experiments on atmospheric neutrino oscillations are summarized and discussed. Then the results obtained by different long baseline neutrino experiments are considered. Finally conclusions and perspectives…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Giorgio Giacomelli

The neutrino long wavelength (just-so) oscillation is reconsidered as a solution to the solar neutrino problem. In the light of the presently updated results of the four solar neutrino experiments, the data fit in the just-so scenario…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Zurab G. Berezhiani , Anna Rossi

We study properties of the oscillation effects in the matter of the Earth on antineutrino fluxes from supernovae. We show that these effects can provide explanation of the difference in the energy spectra of the events detected by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Lunardini , A. Yu. Smirnov

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 present an analysis of the MSW neutrino oscillation solutions of the solar neutrino problem in the framework of two-neutrino mixing in the enlarged parameter space $(\Delta m^2, \tan^2\theta)$ with $\theta \in (0,\frac{\pi}{2})$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , C. Peña-Garay

The data supporting neutrino oscillations are reexamined empirically, ignoring the phase space of the usual theory. An absolutely minimum description can be constructed easily without assuming oscillations. An empirical fit to a simplified…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Michael Williams

We analyzed the solar, terrestrial and atmospheric neutrinos experiments using the three-flavor neutrino framework and got the allowed regions for parameters (\Delta m_{12}^2, \sin^22\theta_{12}, \Delta m_{23}^2, \theta_{13}, \theta_{23}).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 T. Teshima , T. Sakai , O. Inagaki

We have analyzed the results of reactor and accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments in the framework of a general model with mixing of three neutrino fields and a neutrino mass hierarchy that can accommodate the results of the solar…

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

The atmospheric neutrino fluxes observed by underground detectors are not symmetric for rotations around the vertical axis. The flux is largest (smallest) for the nu's traveling toward east (west). This asymmetry is the result of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Paolo Lipari

The only experimentally observed phenomenon that lies outside the standard model of the electroweak interaction is neutrino oscillations. A way to try to unify the extensive neutrino oscillation data is to add a phenomenological mass term…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 D. J. Ernst , B. K. Cogswell , H. R. Burroughs , J. Escamilla-Roa , D. C. Latimer

We have analyzed the results of reactor and accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments in a model with mixing of three neutrino fields and a neutrino mass hierarchy. It is shown that $ \nu_\mu \leftrightarrows \nu_e $ oscillations with $…

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

The predictions of the atmospheric nu event rates are affected by significant uncertainties, however the evidence for the `disappearance' of nu_mu's and antinu_mu's obtained by SK and other underground detectors is robust and cannot be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Lipari

We discuss various aspects of the solar neutrino spectrum distortion and time variations of fluxes. (i) Oscillations of neutrinos which cross the mantle and the core of the Earth can be parametrically enhanced. The parametric effect gives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Yu. Smirnov

By numerically solving the quantum kinetic equations we compute the range of parameters where the $\nu_\mu \to \nu_s$ oscillation solution to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly is consistent with a stringent big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Foot

I summarize here the results of a global fit to the full data set corresponding to 535 days of data of the Super-Kamiokande experiment as well as to all other experiments in order to compare the two most likely solutions to the atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia