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A new parametrization of the neutrino mixing matrix for neutrino oscillations
In this paper we study three active neutrino oscillations, favored by recent
data from SuperK and SNO, using a new parametrization of the lepton mixing
matrix constructed from a linear combination of the unit matrix , and a
hermitian unitary matrix , that is, .
There are only three real parameters in including the parameter .
It is interesting to find that experimental data on atmospheric neutrino
dictates the angle to be such that the and
mixing is maximal. The solar neutrino problem is solved via the MSW
effect with a small mixing angle, with depending on one small parameter
. The resulting mixing matrix with just two parameters ( and
) predicts that the oscillating probabilities for
and to be equal and of the order . The measurement of CP asymmetries at the proposed Neutrino
Factories would also provide a test of our parametrization.Comment: 10 pages, Retex, no figure
Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay
Neutrinoless double beta decay is a lepton number violating process whose
observation would also establish that neutrinos are their own anti-particles.
There are many experimental efforts with a variety of techniques. Some (EXO,
Kamland-Zen, GERDA phase I and CANDLES) started take data in 2011 and EXO has
reported the first measurement of the half life for the double beta decay with
two neutrinos of Xe. The sensitivities of the different proposals are
reviewed.Comment: 8 pages, prepared for TAUP 201
Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay
Neutrinoless double beta decay is a lepton number violating process whose
observation would also establish that neutrinos are their own anti-particles.
There are many experimental efforts with a variety of techniques. Some (EXO,
Kamland-Zen, GERDA phase I and CANDLES) started take data in 2011 and EXO has
reported the first measurement of the half life for the double beta decay with
two neutrinos of Xe. The sensitivities of the different proposals are
reviewed.Comment: 8 pages, prepared for TAUP 201
Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay
Neutrinoless double beta decay is a lepton number violating process whose
observation would also establish that neutrinos are their own anti-particles.
There are many experimental efforts with a variety of techniques. Some (EXO,
Kamland-Zen, GERDA phase I and CANDLES) started take data in 2011 and EXO has
reported the first measurement of the half life for the double beta decay with
two neutrinos of Xe. The sensitivities of the different proposals are
reviewed.Comment: 8 pages, prepared for TAUP 201
A Mass Matrix for Atmospheric, Solar, and LSND Neutrino Oscillations
We construct a mass matrix for the four neutrino flavors, three active and
one sterile, needed to fit oscillations in all three neutrino experiments:
atmospheric, solar, and LSND, simultaneously. It organizes the neutrinos into
two doublets whose central values are about 1 eV apart, and whose splittings
are of the order of 10^(-3) eV. Atmospheric neutrino oscillations are described
as maximal mixing within the upper doublet, and solar as the same within the
lower doublet. Then LSND is a weak transition from one doublet to the other. We
comment on the Majorana versus Dirac nature of the active neutrinos and show
that our mass matrix can be derived from an S_2 x S_2 permutation symmetry plus
an equal splitting rule.Comment: 4 pages, 0 figures, minor text change
Three Generation Neutrino Oscillation Parameters after SNO
We examine the solar neutrino problem in the context of the realistic three
neutrino mixing scenario including the SNO charged current (CC) rate. The two
independent mass squared differences and are taken to be in the solar and atmospheric ranges
respectively. We incorporate the constraints on m as obtained
by the SuperKamiokande atmospheric neutrino data and determine the allowed
values of , and from a combined
analysis of solar and CHOOZ data. Our aim is to probe the changes in the values
of the mass and mixing parameters with the inclusion of the SNO data as well as
the changes in the two-generation parameter region obtained from the solar
neutrino analysis with the inclusion of the third generation. We find that the
inclusion of the SNO CC rate in the combined solar + CHOOZ analysis puts a more
restrictive bound on . Since the allowed values of
are constrained to very small values by the CHOOZ experiment there is no
qualitative change over the two generation allowed regions in the plane. The best-fit comes in the LMA region and
no allowed area is obtained in the SMA region at 3 level from combined
solar and CHOOZ analysis.Comment: One reference added. Version to apprear in PR
Solar neutrino-electron scattering as background limitation for double beta decay
The background on double beta decay searches due to elastic electron
scattering of solar neutrinos of all double beta emitters with Q-value larger
than 2 MeV is calculated, taking into account survival probability and flux
uncertainties of solar neutrinos. This work determines the background level to
be [1-2]E-7 counts /keV/kg/yr, depending on the precise Q-value of the double
beta emitter. It is also shown that the background level increases dramatically
if going to lower Q-values. Furthermore, studies are done for various detector
systems under consideration for next generation experiments. It was found that
experiments based on loaded liquid scintillator have to expect a higher
background. Within the given nuclear matrix element uncertainties any approach
exploring the normal hierarchy has to face this irreducible background, which
is a limitation on the minimal achievable background for purely calorimetric
approaches. Large scale liquid scintillator experiments might encounter this
problem already while exploring the inverted hierarchy. Potential caveats by
using more sophisticated experimental setups are also discussed
Is CP Violation Observable in Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments ?
We have studied CP violation originated by the phase of the neutrino mixing
matrix in the long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. The direct
measurements of CP violation is the difference of the transition probabilities
between CP-conjugate channels. In those experiments, the CP violating effect is
not suppressed if the highest neutrino mass scale is taken to be 1\sim 5 \eV,
which is appropriate for the cosmological hot dark matter. Assuming the
hierarchy for the neutrino masses, the upper bounds of CP violation have been
caluculated for three cases, in which mixings are constrained by the recent
short baseline ones. The calculated upper bounds are larger than ,
which will be observable in the long baseline accelerator experiments. The
matter effect, which is not CP invariant, has been also estimated in those
experiments.Comment: 28 pages, LaTex file, 6 figures included using epsfig Matter effect
is estimated(Figs.3(a) (b)). Physical parameters are change
CP violation effect in long-baseline neutrino oscillation in the four-neutrino model
We investigate CP-violation effect in the long-baseline neutrino oscillation
in the four-neutrino model with mass scheme of the two nearly degenerate pairs
separated with the order of 1 eV, by using the data from the solar neutrino
deficit, the atmospheric neutrino anomaly and the LSND experiments along with
the other accelerator and reactor experiments. By use of the most general
parametrization of the mixing matrix with six angles and six phases, we show
that the genuine CP-violation effect could attain as large as 0.3 for and that the matter effect is negligibly
small such as at most 0.01 for for , which is the mass-squared difference relevant
to the long-baseline oscillation.Comment: 21 pages in LaTeX, 9 ps figures. Some changes in the Introduction and
Reference
Three-flavor atmospheric neutrino anomaly
We investigate the indications of flavor oscillations that come from the
anomalous flavor composition of the atmospheric neutrino flux observed in some
underground experiments. We study the information coming from the
neutrino-induced -like and -like events both in the sub-GeV energy
range (Kamiokande, IMB, Fr{\'e}jus, and NUSEX experiments) and in the multi-GeV
energy range (Kamiokande experiment). First we analyze all the data in the
limits of pure and
oscillations. We obtain that
oscillations provide a better fit, in particular
to the multi-GeV data. Then we perform a three-flavor analysis in the
hypothesis of dominance of one neutrino square mass difference, , implying
that the neutrino mixing is parametrized by two angles,
. We explore the space
exhaustively, and find the regions favored by the oscillation hypothesis. The
results are displayed in a form suited to the comparison with other flavor
oscillation searches at accelerator, reactor, and solar experiments. In
the analysis, we pay particular attention to the earth matter effects, to the
correlation of the uncertainties, and to the symmetry properties of the
oscillation probability.Comment: 25 pages (RevTeX) + 12 figures, requires epsfig.sty. All the figures
are bitmapped. Postscript figures with full resolution are available at
ftp://ftp.sns.ias.edu/pub/lisi/atmpaper
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