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Flavor Neutrino Oscillations and Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation
We consider neutrino oscillations as non stationary phenomenon based on
Schrodinger evolution equation and mixed states of neutrinos with definite
flavors. We show that time-energy uncertainty relation plays a crucial role in
neutrino oscillations. We compare neutrino oscillations with
oscillations.Comment: A report at the 2nd Scandinavian Neutrino Workshop, SNOW 2006,
Stockholm, May 2-6, 200
Physics Reach of High-Energy and High-Statistics IceCube Atmospheric Neutrino Data
This paper investigates the physics reach of the IceCube neutrino detector
when it will have collected a data set of order one million atmospheric
neutrinos with energies in the 0.1 \sim 10^4 TeV range. The paper consists of
three parts. We first demonstrate how to simulate the detector performance
using relatively simple analytic methods. Because of the high energies of the
neutrinos, their oscillations, propagation in the Earth and regeneration due to
\tau decay must be treated in a coherent way. We set up the formalism to do
this and discuss the implications. In a final section we apply the methods
developed to evaluate the potential of IceCube to study new physics beyond
neutrino oscillations. Not surprisingly, because of the increased energy and
statistics over present experiments, existing bounds on violations of the
equivalence principle and of Lorentz invariance can be improved by over two
orders of magnitude. The methods developed can be readily applied to other
non-conventional physics associated with neutrinos.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures, Revtex
Measuring Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with Neutrino Telescopes
Neutrino telescopes with large detection volumes can demonstrate that the
current indications of neutrino oscillation are correct or if a better
description can be achieved with non-standard alternatives. Observations of
contained muons produced by atmospheric neutrinos can better constrain the
allowed region for oscillations or determine the relevant parameters of
non-standard models. We analyze the possibility of neutrino telescopes
measuring atmospheric neutrino oscillations. We suggest adjustments to improve
this potential. An addition of four densely-instrumented strings to the AMANDA
II detector makes observations feasible. Such a configuration is competitive
with current and proposed experiments.Comment: 36 pages, 21 figures, revte
Status of the CPT Violating Interpretations of the LSND Signal
We study the status of the CPT violating neutrino mass spectrum which has
been proposed to simultaneously accommodate the oscillation data from LSND,
KamLAND, atmospheric and solar neutrino experiments, as well as the
non-observation of anti-neutrino disappearance in short-baseline reactor
experiments. We perform a three-generation analysis of the global data with the
aim of elucidating the viability of this solution. We find no compatibility
between the results of the oscillation analysis of LSND and all-but-LSND data
sets below 3 CL. Furthermore, the global data without LSND show no
evidence for CPT violation: the best fit point of the all-but-LSND analysis
occurs very close to a CPT conserving scenario.Comment: Improved version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D, 16 pages, 5 figure
Three-Neutrino Mixing after the First Results from K2K and KamLAND
We analyze the impact of the data on long baseline \nu_\mu disappearance from
the K2K experiment and reactor \bar\nu_e disappearance from the KamLAND
experiment on the determination of the leptonic three-generation mixing
parameters. Performing an up-to-date global analysis of solar, atmospheric,
reactor and long baseline neutrino data in the context of three-neutrino
oscillations, we determine the presently allowed ranges of masses and mixing
and we consistently derive the allowed magnitude of the elements of the
leptonic mixing matrix. We also quantify the maximum allowed contribution of
\Delta m^2_{21} oscillations to CP-odd and CP-even observables at future long
baseline experiments.Comment: Some typos correcte
Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations and New Physics
We study the robustness of the determination of the neutrino masses and
mixing from the analysis of atmospheric and K2K data under the presence of
different forms of phenomenologically allowed new physics in the nu_mu--nu_tau
sector. We focus on vector and tensor-like new physics interactions which allow
us to treat, in a model independent way, effects due to the violation of the
equivalence principle, violations of the Lorentz invariance both CPT conserving
and CPT violating, non-universal couplings to a torsion field and non-standard
neutrino interactions with matter. We perform a global analysis of the full
atmospheric data from SKI together with long baseline K2K data in the presence
of nu_mu -> nu_tau transitions driven by neutrino masses and mixing together
with sub-dominant effects due to these forms of new physics. We show that
within the present degree of experimental precision, the extracted values of
masses and mixing are robust under those effects and we derive the upper bounds
on the possible strength of these new interactions in the nu_mu--nu_tau sector.Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX file using RevTEX4, 5 figures and 4 tables include
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Active to Sterile Neutrino Mixing Limits from Neutral-Current Interactions in MINOS
Results are reported from a search for active to sterile neutrino oscillations in the MINOS long-baseline experiment, based on the observation of neutral-current neutrino interactions, from an exposure to the NuMI neutrino beam of 7.07×10^(20) protons on target. A total of 802 neutral-current event candidates is observed in the Far Detector, compared to an expected number of 754±28(stat)±37(syst) for oscillations among three active flavors. The fraction f_s of disappearing ν_μ that may transition to ν_s is found to be less than 22% at the 90% C.L
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New constraints on muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino transitions in MINOS
This paper reports results from a search for ν_μ → ν_e transitions by the MINOS experiment based on a 7×10^(20) protons-on-target exposure. Our observation of 54 candidate ν_e events in the far detector with a background of 49.1±7.0(stat)±2.7(syst) events predicted by the measurements in the near detector requires 2sin^2(2θ_(13))sin^2θ_(23)<0.12(0.20) at the 90% C.L. for the normal (inverted) mass hierarchy at δ_(CP)=0. The experiment sets the tightest limits to date on the value of θ_(13) for nearly all values of δ_(CP) for the normal neutrino mass hierarchy and maximal sin^2(2θ_(23))
Measurement of the neutrino mass splitting and flavor mixing by MINOS
Measurements of neutrino oscillations using the disappearance of muon neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI neutrino beam as observed by the two MINOS detectors are reported. New analysis methods have been applied to an enlarged data sample from an exposure of protons on target. A fit to neutrino oscillations yields values of ,eV for the atmospheric mass splitting and m sin^2!(2 heta) > 0.90 (90%,C.L.) for the mixing angle. Pure neutrino decay and quantum decoherence hypotheses are excluded at 7 and 9 standard deviations, respectively
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