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We analyze the impact of recent solar and atmospheric data in the determination of the neutrino oscillation parameters, taking into account that both the solar nu_e and the atmospheric nu_mu may convert to a mixture of active and sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Maltoni

The three neutrino mass matrices in the $SU(5)\times U(2)$ model are studied focusing on the neutrino oscillation experiments. The atmospheric neutrino anomaly could be explained by the large $\nu_{\mu} - \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation. The long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-11 Morimitsu Tanimoto

Solar and atmospheric neutrino data require physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The simplest, most generic, but not yet unique, interpretation of the data is in terms of neutrino oscillations. I summarize the results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. F. Valle

We have analyzed the most recent available Super-Kamiokande data in a three flavor neutrino oscillation model. We have here neglected possible matter effects and performed a fit to atmospheric and solar Super-Kamiokande data. We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Christoph Meier , Tommy Ohlsson

We make a global vacuum neutrino oscillation analysis of solar neutrino data, including the seasonal and energy dependence of the recent Super-Kamiokande 708-day results. The best fit parameters for \nu_e oscillations to an active neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 V. Barger , K. Whisnant

Motivated by the Exact Parity Model and other theories, the hypothesis that each of the known neutrinos oscillates maximally with a sterile partner has been put forward as an explanation of the atmospheric and solar neutrino anomalies. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-10 R. Foot , R. R. Volkas , O. Yasuda

Vacuum oscillations are considered for the combined solar neutrino observations, including the Kamiokande II spectrum data and incorporating theoretical uncertainties and their correlations. Despite the conceptual difficulty of the fine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoya Hata

The apparent anomaly in the ratio of muon to electron atmospheric neutrinos first observed by Kamiokande and IMB has been confirmed by Super-Kamiokande and Soudan-2. The experimental analysis, including the asymmetry in the zenithal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Marteau , J. Delorme , M. Ericson

Neutrino oscillation experiments provide a unique tool for probing neutrino-matter interactions, especially those involving the tau neutrino. We describe the sensitivity of the present atmospheric neutrino data to these interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Friedland , Cecilia Lunardini , Michele Maltoni

We report the result of a search for neutrino oscillations using precise measurements of the recoil electron energy spectrum and zenith angle variations of the solar neutrino flux from 1258 days of neutrino-electron scattering data in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-28 Kamiokande Collaboration

We present an updated analysis of astrophysical solutions, two-flavor MSW solutions, and vacuum oscillation solutions to the solar neutrino anomaly. The recent results of each of the five solar neutrino experiments are incorporated,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Naoya Hata , Paul Langacker

In these two lectures I describe first the theory of neutrino mass and then discuss the implications of recent data (including 708--day data Super--Kamiokande data) which strongly indicate the need for neutrino conversions to account for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. F. Valle

A comprehensive formalism for the description of neutrino oscillations in the Earth in a general scheme with three massive neutrinos and the mass hierarchy m_1<<m_2<<m_3 is presented. Using this formalism, which is valid both in vacuum and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 C. Giunti , C. W. Kim , M. Monteno

The recent observations of atmospheric nu events from the Super-Kamiokande experiment are compatible with three-flavor neutrino oscillations, occurring dominantly in the nu_mu<--->nu_tau channel and subdominantly in the nu_mu<--->nu_e…

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

The time variation of the elastic scattering rate of solar neutrinos with electrons in Super-Kamiokande-I was fit to the variations expected from active two-neutrino oscillations. The best fit in the Large Mixing Angle solution has a mixing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Kamiokande Collaboration

I review the history on neutrino magnetic moments and apply the neurino magnetic moment idea to constrain its bound from Super-Kamiokande neutrino oscillation data.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jihn E. Kim

A model of neutrino oscillation experiments is constructed. The experiments incorporated are: solar neutrinos (Chlorine, Gallium, Super-K, and SNO), reactor neutrinos (Bugey and CHOOZ), beam stop neutrinos (LSND decay at rest and decay in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Latimer , D. J. Ernst

Recent solar & atmospheric nu-data strongly indicate need for physics beyond the Standard Model. I review the ways of reconciling them in terms of 3-nu oscillations. Though not implied by data, bi-maximal nu-mixing models emerge as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 J. W. F. Valle

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 final results of the MACRO experiment on atmospheric neutrino oscillations are presented and discussed. The data concern different event topologies with average neutrino energies of ~3 and ~50 GeV. Multiple Coulomb Scattering of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Giacomelli , A. Margiotta