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We investigate the effect of a possible large frozen-in magnetic field in the core of the sun and a neutrino magnetic moment of the order of $10^{-10}$ Bohr magneton on the MSW parameters. Such a possibility can completely depolarize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Mohapatra

{Large enough random magnetic fields may affect in an important way neutrino conversion rates, even in the case where neutrinos have zero transition magnetic moments. We consider their effect in the case of active to sterile \neu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Pastor , V. Semikoz , Jose W. F. Valle

The active-sterile neutrino conversion is studied for neutrino propagating in the axial potential generated by magnetised electron plasma in the supernova medium. We consider the effect of random magnetic field $B_{rms}$ on the average…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Sarira Sahu , Vishnu M. Bannur

Sterile neutrinos at the eV scale have long been studied in the context of anomalies in short baseline neutrino experiments. Their cosmology can be made compatible with our understanding of the early Universe provided the sterile neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 Francesco Capozzi , Ian M. Shoemaker , Luca Vecchi

We study the impact of neutrino oscillations on the interpretation of the supernova (SN) 1987A neutrino signal by means of a maximum-likelihood analysis. We focus on oscillations between $\overline\nu_e$ with $\overline\nu_\mu$ or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 B. Jegerlehner , F. Neubig , G. Raffelt

The anomalously slow rotation of the solar core is just one from a remarkable lists of fundamental indications showing that the solar core is somehow coupled to the surface activity cycle. On the other hand, the atmospheric, LSND and solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Attila Grandpierre

In the last decade, the photospheric abundances of the Sun had been revised several times by many observers. The standard solar models (SSM) constructed with the new low-metal abundances disagree with helioseismic results and detected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Wuming Yang

Solar and atmospheric neutrino anomalies are described by bimaximal mixing of three neutrinos. Neutrino oscillations in appearance nu_e <--> nu_mu,nu_tau and in disappearance nu_e long baseline and atmospheric experiments are sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Jezabek , Y. Sumino

We find that magnetic neutrino-electron scattering is unaffected by oscillations for vacuum mixing of Dirac neutrinos with only diagonal moments and for Majorana neutrinos with two flavors. For MSW mixing, these cases again obtain, though…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. F. Beacom , P. Vogel

The main features of the observables in the SNO and Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino experiments in the case of neutrino spin and/or spin-flavour precession in the magnetic field of the sun are discussed. It is shown without any model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bilenky , C. Giunti

A new concept is proposed to solve the solar neutrino problem, that is based on a hypothesis about the existence of semi-weak interaction of electron neutrinos with nucleons mediated by massless pseudoscalar bosons. Owing to about 10…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-23 L. M. Slad

Neutrino interactions play a central role in transport and flavor evolution in the ejecta of binary neutron star mergers. Simulations suggest that neutron star mergers may produce magnetic fields as strong as $10^{17}$ G, but computational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 Mia Kumamoto , Catherine Welch

Besides the opportunity for discovering new neutrino physics, solar neutrino measurements provide a sensitive probe of the solar interior, and thus a rigorous test of solar model predictions. We present model independent determinations of…

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

The MSW (Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein) effect is the adiabatic or partially adiabatic neutrino flavor conversion in medium with varying density. The main notions related to the effect, its dynamics and physical picture are reviewed. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Yu. Smirnov

Neutrino oscillations in the presence of strong gravitational fields are studied. We look at very high energy neutrinos ($\sim $1 TeV) emanating from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). It is observed that spin flavor resonant transitions of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-15 Dardo Píriz , Mou Roy , José Wudka

We study neutrino, muon, and gamma-ray fluxes in extraterrestrial environments in our Solar System via semi-analytical estimates and Monte Carlo simulations. In sites with negligible atmosphere, we find a strong reduction in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-15 Xilin Zhang , Jason Detwiler , Clint Wiseman

Kilogauss-strength magnetic fields are often observed in intergranular lanes at the photosphere in the quiet Sun. Such fields are stronger than the equipartition field $B_e$, corresponding to a magnetic energy density that matches the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. J. Bushby , S. M. Houghton , M. R. E. Proctor , N. O. Weiss

It is shown that the processes of neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field can be consistently described in the framework of a new quantum field-theoretical approach without use of the neutrino flavor states. It is based on the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Vadim Egorov , Igor Volobuev

We consider the Grand Unification (GU) scenario for neutrino masses which is based on the see-saw mechanism with the mass of the heaviest right handed (RH) neutrino at the GU-scale: $M_3 \sim \Lambda_{GU}$, and on the quark-lepton symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 K. S. Babu , Q. Y. Liu , A. Yu. Smirnov

We perform a detailed study of the Earth matter effects on supernova neutrinos. The dependences of these effects on the properties of the original neutrino fluxes, on the trajectory of the neutrinos inside the Earth and on the oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 C. Lunardini , A. Yu. Smirnov