956 research outputs found
Status of FNAL SciBooNE experiment
SciBooNE is a new experiment at FNAL which will make precision
neutrino-nucleus cross section measurements in the one GeV region. These
measurements are essential for the future neutrino oscillation experiments. We
started data taking in the antineutrino mode on June 8, 2007, and collected
5.19 \times 10^{19} protons on target (POT) before the accelerator shutdown in
August. The first data from SciBooNE are reported in this article.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference
on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP) 2007, Sendai,
Japan, September 11-15, 200
Bi-large neutrino mixing and the Cabibbo angle
Recent measurements of the neutrino mixing angles cast doubt on the validity
of the so-far popular tri-bimaximal mixing ansatz. We propose a parametrization
for the neutrino mixing matrix where the reactor angle seeds the large solar
and atmospheric mixing angles, equal to each other in first approximation. We
suggest such bi-large mixing pattern as a model building standard, realized
when the leading order value of the reactor angle equals the Cabibbo angle.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figs. v2: matches version appearing in Phys.Rev.D, rapid
communication
Resolving parameter degeneracies in long-baseline experiments by atmospheric neutrino data
In this work we show that the physics reach of a long-baseline (LBL) neutrino
oscillation experiment based on a superbeam and a megaton water Cherenkov
detector can be significantly increased if the LBL data are combined with data
from atmospheric neutrinos (ATM) provided by the same detector. ATM data are
sensitive to the octant of and to the type of the neutrino mass
hierarchy, mainly through three-flavor effects in e-like events. This allows to
resolve the so-called - and sign()-parameter
degeneracies in LBL data. As a consequence it becomes possible to distinguish
the normal from the inverted neutrino mass ordering at CL from a
combined LBL+ATM analysis if . The potential
to identify the true values of and the CP-phase
is significantly increased through the lifting of the
degeneracies. These claims are supported by a detailed simulation of the T2K
(phase II) LBL experiment combined with a full three-flavor analysis of ATM
data in the HyperKamiokande detector.Comment: 25 pages, 10 figure
disappearance at the SPL, T2K-I and the Neutrino Factory
We study the disappearance channel at T2K-phase I and the SPL and
analyse the achievable reduction of present uncertainties in and
. We analyse the impact of discrete ambiguities in
sign() and sign(). We show how the
disappearance channel at the Neutrino Factory is complementary to the
``golden'' and ``silver'' appearance channels and can be used to reduce the
eightfold-ambiguity problem in ().Comment: 2 pages, 3 epsfig; NUFACT'05, 21-26 June 2005, Frascat
From Double Chooz to Triple Chooz - Neutrino Physics at the Chooz Reactor Complex
We discuss the potential of the proposed Double Chooz reactor experiment to
measure the neutrino mixing angle . We especially consider
systematical uncertainties and their partial cancellation in a near and far
detector operation, and we discuss implications of a delayed near detector
startup. Furthermore, we introduce Triple Chooz, which is a possible upgrade
scenario assuming a second, larger far detector, which could start data taking
in an existing cavern five years after the first far detector. We review the
role of the Chooz reactor experiments in the global context of future neutrino
beam experiments. We find that both Double Chooz and Triple Chooz can play a
leading role in the search for a finite value of . Double
Chooz could achieve a sensitivity limit of at the
90%~confidence level after 5~years while the Triple Chooz setup could give a
sensitivity below .Comment: 18 pages, 6 figure
Physics Potential of the SPL Super Beam
Performances of a neutrino beam generated by the CERN SPL proton driver are
computed considering a 440 kton water Cerenkov detector at 130 km from the
target. sensitivity down to and a
sensitivity comparable to a Neutrino Factory, for ,
are within the reach of such a project.Comment: Invited talk at the Nufact02 Workshop, Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine, London, July 200
Diagnostic Potential of Cosmic-Neutrino Absorption Spectroscopy
Annihilation of extremely energetic cosmic neutrinos on the relic-neutrino
background can give rise to absorption lines at energies corresponding to
formation of the electroweak gauge boson . The positions of the
absorption dips are set by the masses of the relic neutrinos. Suitably intense
sources of extremely energetic ( -- -eV) cosmic neutrinos
might therefore enable the determination of the absolute neutrino masses and
the flavor composition of the mass eigenstates. Several factors--other than
neutrino mass and composition--distort the absorption lines, however. We
analyze the influence of the time-evolution of the relic-neutrino density and
the consequences of neutrino decay. We consider the sensitivity of the
lineshape to the age and character of extremely energetic neutrino sources, and
to the thermal history of the Universe, reflected in the expansion rate. We
take into account Fermi motion arising from the thermal distribution of the
relic-neutrino gas. We also note the implications of Dirac vs. Majorana relics,
and briefly consider unconventional neutrino histories. We ask what kinds of
external information would enhance the potential of cosmic-neutrino absorption
spectroscopy, and estimate the sensitivity required to make the technique a
reality.Comment: 25 pages, 26 figures (in 46 files), uses RevTe
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Alpha diversity, or species richness, of East Asian mainland evergreen broadleaved forests, expressed by indices of Fisher\u27s alpha (agr) and S(100), a new index showing species number in a 100-individual sample, is significantly correlated with the climatic favorableness, expressed by Kira\u27s warmth index. On the contrary, diversity values of insular forests studied on Kyushu satellites of Japan, the Bonins, the Eastern Carolines of Micronesia, and the Galapagos in the eastern Pacific, are below those expected from the climate of respective oceanic islands. Species-individual curves, comparing mainland-and insular communities, also support clearly the above conclusion of species poverty in the insular communities studied.The original publication is available at www.springerlink.co
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