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Electron polarization induced by magnetic fields can modify the potentials relevant for describing neutrino conversions in media with magnetic fields. The magnitudes of polarization potentials are determined for different conditions. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 H. Nunokawa , V. B. Semikoz , A. Yu. Smirnov , J. W. F. Valle

We consider the sensitivity of future neutrino experiments in the low energy region, such as BOREXINO or HELLAZ, to a solar electron antineutrino signal. We show that, if neutrino conversions within the Sun result in partial polarization of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 S. Pastor , V. B. Semikoz , J. W. F. Valle

Resonant spin--flavour conversion of neutrinos (RSFCN) in twisting magnetic fields might be at the origin of the apparent anticorrelation between the $^{37}$Ar production--rate in the Homestake solar neutrino detector and the solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 P. I. Krastev

This review has two parts. The first part summarizes the current observational constraints on fluctuations in the solar medium deep within the solar Radiative Zone, and shows how the KamLAND and SNO-salt data combine to make the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Burgess N. S. Dzhalilov , M. Maltoni , T. I. Rashba , V. B. Semikoz , M. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

The oscillations of pseudo-Dirac neutrinos in matter are discussed and applied to the solar neutrino problem. Several scenarios such as both $\nu_e$ and $\nu_{\mu}$ being pseudo-Dirac and only $\nu_e$ or $\nu_{\mu}$ being pseudo-Dirac are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Giunti , C. W. Kim , U. W. Lee

Opportunity of the solar flares (SF's) prediction observing the solar neutrino fluxes is investigated. In three neutrino generations the evolution of the neutrino flux traveling the coupled sunspots (CS's) which are the SF source is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 O. M. Boyarkin , I. O. Boyarkina

This paper reviews the constraints on the solar neutrino mixing parameters with data collected by the Homestake, SAGE, GALLEX, Kamiokande, SuperKamiokande, and SNO experiments. An emphasis will be given to the global solar neutrino analyses…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Bellerive

It is shown that the strong enhancement of the Earth (day-night) effect for solar neutrinos crossing the Earth core in the case of the small mixing angle MSW electron neutrino to muon (tau) neutrino transition solution of the solar neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. T. Petcov

Recent SNO results give strong evidence that the solar neutrinos undergo the flavor conversion. Main issue now is the identification of the mechanism of conversion. The LMA MSW solution with $\Delta m^2 = (5 - 7) \cdot 10^{-5}$ eV$^2$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-31 A. Yu. Smirnov

Matter-induced neutrino flavor mixing (the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein, or MSW, effect) is a central prediction of the neutrino mixing framework, but it has not been conclusively observed. Direct observation of the energy-dependent MSW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Obada Nairat , John F. Beacom , Kevin J. Kelly , Shirley Weishi Li

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 goal of this research is to investigate how magnetic field affects the dynamics of granular convection and excitation of solar oscillations by means of realistic numerical simulations. We have used a 3D, compressible, non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-27 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

We consider the implications of solar matter density random noise upon resonant neutrino conversion. The evolution equation describing MSW-like conversion is derived in the framework of the Schr\"odinger approach. We study quantitatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 H. Nunokawa , A. Rossi , V. B. Semikoz , J. W. F. Valle

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 report on searches for neutrinos and antineutrinos from astrophysical sources performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. Electron antineutrinos ($\bar{\nu}_e$) are detected in an organic…

Atmospheric neutrinos at low energies, $E \lsim 500$ MeV, is known to be a rich source of information of lepton mixing parameters. We formulate a simple perturbative framework to elucidate the characteristic features of neutrino oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-06 Ivan Martinez-Soler , Hisakazu Minakata

We have developed 3D, compressible, non-linear radiative MHD simulations to study the influence of the magnetic field of various strength and geometry on the turbulent convective cells and on the excitation mechanisms of the acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-29 Irina Kitiashvili , Laetitia Jacoutot , Alexander Kosovichev , Alan Wray , Nagi Mansour

We consider the conversions of active to sterile Majorana neutrinos $\nu_{a}$ and $\nu_{s}$, due to neutrino transition magnetic moments in the presence of random magnetic fields (r.m.f.) generated at the electroweak phase transition. From…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 V. B. Semikoz , S. Pastor , J. W. F. Valle

The Sun is a source of high energy neutrinos (E > 10 GeV) produced by cosmic ray interactions in the solar atmosphere. We study the impact of three-flavor oscillations (in vacuum and in matter) on solar atmosphere neutrinos, and calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Mirizzi , D. Montanino , P. D. Serpico

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