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Fake CPT Violation in Disappearance Neutrino Oscillations
We make an analysis of the fake CPT-violating asymmetries between the
survival probabilities of neutrinos and antineutrinos, induced by the
terrestrial matter effects, in three different scenarios of long-baseline
neutrino oscillation experiments with L=730 km, L=2100 km and L=3200 km. In
particular, the dependence of those asymmetries on the Dirac-type CP-violating
phase of the lepton flavor mixing matrix is examined.Comment: RevTex 8 pages (including 3 PS figures). To be publishe
Lepton Number Violation in TeV Scale See-Saw Extensions of the Standard Model
The low-energy neutrino physics constraints on the TeV scale type I see-saw
scenarios of neutrino mass generation are revisited. It is shown that lepton
charge (L) violation, associated to the production and decays of heavy Majorana
neutrinos N_{j} having masses in the range of M_j \sim (100 \div 1000) GeV and
present in such scenarios, is hardly to be observed at ongoing and future
particle accelerator experiments, LHC included, because of very strong
constraints on the parameters and couplings responsible for the corresponding
|\Delta L| = 2 processes. If the heavy Majorana neutrinos N_j are observed and
they are associated only with the type I mechanism, they will behave
effectively like pseudo-Dirac fermions. Conversely, the observation of effects
proving the Majorana nature of N_j would imply that these heavy neutrinos have
additional relatively strong couplings to the Standard Model particles or that
light neutrino masses compatible with the observations are generated by a
mechanism other than see-saw (e.g., radiatively at one or two loop level) in
which the heavy Majorana neutrinos N_j are nevertheless involved.Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of DISCRETE 2010- Symposium on
Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, 8 page
Measurement of the nu(e) and total B-8 solar neutrino fluxes with the Sudbury neutrino observatory phase I data set
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Neutrino oscillations: status, prospects and opportunities at a neutrino factory
We review the current status of neutrino oscillations after 1258 days of Super-Kamiokande, assess their future prospects over the next 10 years as the next generation of experiments come on-line, and discuss the longer-term opportunities presented by a neutrino factory. We also give an introduction to the see-saw mechanism and its application to atmospheric and solar neutrinos