153 research outputs found
Analytic Calculation of Neutrino Mass Eigenvalues
Implicaion of the neutrino oscillation search for the neutrino mass square
difference and mixing are discussed. We have considered the effective majorana
mass m_{ee}, related for \beta\beta_{0\nu}decay. We find limits for neutrino
mass eigen value m_{i} in the different neutrino mass spectrum,which explain
the different neutrino data.Comment: 10 page
A Reanalysis of the LSND Neutrino Oscillation Experiment
We reanalyse the LSND neutrino oscillation results in the framework of the
Projected Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (PQRPA), which is the only
RPA model that treats the Pauli Principle correctly, and accounts
satisfactorily for great majority of the weak decay observables around 12C. We
have found that the employment of the PQRPA inclusive DIF 12C(nu_e,e-)12N
cross-section, instead of the CRPA used by the LSND collaboration in the (nu_mu
->nu_e) oscillations study of the 1993-1995 data sample, leads to the
following: 1) the oscillation probability is increased from (0.26 +/- 0.10 +/-
0.05) percents to (0.33 +/- 0.10 +/- 0.13) percents, and 2) the previously
found consistence between the (sin^2 2theta, Delta m^2) confidence level
regions for the (nu_mu -> nu_e) and the (bar{nu}_mu -> bar{nu}_e) oscillations
is significantly diminished. These effects are not due to the difference in the
uncertainty ranges for the neutrino-nucleus cross-section, but to the
difference in the cross-sections themselves.Comment: REVTEX4, 14 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett.
Search for Radiative Decays of Cosmic Background Neutrino using Cosmic Infrared Background Energy Spectrum
We propose to search for the neutrino radiative decay by fitting a photon
energy spectrum of the cosmic infrared background to a sum of the photon energy
spectrum from the neutrino radiative decay and a continuum. By comparing the
present cosmic infrared background energy spectrum observed by AKARI and
Spitzer to the photon energy spectrum expected from neutrino radiative decay
with a maximum likelihood method, we obatined a lifetime lower limit of to years at 95% confidence level for the
third generation neutrino in the mass range between 50 \mmev
and 150 \mmev under the present constraints by the neutrino oscillation
measurements. In the left-right symmetric model, the minimum lifetime of
is predicted to be years for of 50 \mmev. We
studied the feasibility of the observation of the neutrino radiative decay with
a lifetime of years, by measuring a continuous energy
spectrum of the cosmic infrared background
Evidence for right-handed neutrinos at a neutrino factory
We emphasize that a muon based neutrino factory could show the existence of
light right-handed neutrinos, if a deficit in the number of detected events is
observed at a near detector. This could be as large as ~10% if the size of the
new interactions saturates the present limits from electroweak precision data,
what is not excluded by the oscillation experiments performed up to now. A
simple model realizing such a scenario can be obtained adding right-handed
neutrinos to the minimal Standard Model, together with an extra scalar doublet
and a triplet of hypercharge 1. In this case, however, the possible deficit is
reduced by a factor of ~3, and the Yukawa couplings must be adequately chosen.
This is also generically required if lepton flavour violation must be below
present bounds.Comment: Latex 18 pages, 2 eps figure
Majorana Neutrino Mixing
The most plausible see-saw explanation of the smallness of the neutrino
masses is based on the assumption that total lepton number is violated at a
large scale and neutrinos with definite masses are Majorana particles. In this
review we consider in details difference between Dirac and Majorana neutrino
mixing and possibilities of revealing Majorana nature of neutrinos with
definite masses
Recent advances in neutrinoless double beta decay search
Even after the discovery of neutrino flavour oscillations, based on data from
atmospheric, solar, reactor, and accelerator experiments, many characteristics
of the neutrino remain unknown. Only the neutrino square-mass differences and
the mixing angle values have been estimated, while the value of each mass
eigenstate still hasn't. Its nature (massive Majorana or Dirac particle) is
still escaping. Neutrinoless double beta decay (-DBD) experimental
discovery could be the ultimate answer to some delicate questions of elementary
particle and nuclear physics. The Majorana description of neutrinos allows the
-DBD process, and consequently either a mass value could be measured or
the existence of physics beyond the standard should be confirmed without any
doubt. As expected, the -DBD measurement is a very difficult field of
application for experimentalists. In this paper, after a short summary of the
latest results in neutrino physics, the experimental status, the R&D projects,
and perspectives in -DBD sector are reviewed.Comment: 36 pages, 7 figures, To be publish in Czech Journal of Physic
A new, very massive modular Liquid Argon Imaging Chamber to detect low energy off-axis neutrinos from the CNGS beam. (Project MODULAr)
The paper is considering an opportunity for the CERN/GranSasso (CNGS)
neutrino complex, concurrent time-wise with T2K and NOvA, to search for
theta_13 oscillations and CP violation. Compared with large water Cherenkov
(T2K) and fine grained scintillators (NOvA), the LAr-TPC offers a higher
detection efficiency and a lower backgrounds, since virtually all channels may
be unambiguously recognized. The present proposal, called MODULAr, describes a
20 kt fiducial volume LAr-TPC, following very closely the technology developed
for the ICARUS-T60o, and is focused on the following activities, for which we
seek an extended international collaboration:
(1) the neutrino beam from the CERN 400 GeV proton beam and an optimised horn
focussing, eventually with an increased intensity in the framework of the LHC
accelerator improvement program;
(2) A new experimental area LNGS-B, of at least 50000 m3 at 10 km off-axis
from the main Laboratory, eventually upgradable to larger sizes. A location is
under consideration at about 1.2 km equivalent water depth;
(3) A new LAr Imaging detector of at least 20 kt fiducial mass. Such an
increase in the volume over the current ICARUS T600 needs to be carefully
considered. It is concluded that a very large mass is best realised with a set
of many identical, independent units, each of 5 kt, "cloning" the technology of
the T600. Further phases may foresee extensions of MODULAr to meet future
physics goals.
The experiment might reasonably be operational in about 4/5 years, provided a
new hall is excavated in the vicinity of the Gran Sasso Laboratory and adequate
funding and participation are made available.Comment: Correspondig Author: C. Rubbia (E-mail: [email protected]), 33
pages, 11 figure
Theoretical study of lepton events in the atmospheric neutrino experiments at SuperK
Super-Kamiokande has reported the results for the lepton events in the
atmospheric neutrino experiment. These results have been presented for a 22.5kT
water fiducial mass on an exposure of 1489 days, and the events are divided
into sub-GeV, multi-GeV and PC events. We present a study of nuclear medium
effects in the sub-GeV energy region of atmospheric neutrino events for the
quasielastic scattering, incoherent and coherent pion production processes, as
they give the most dominant contribution to the lepton events in this energy
region. We have used the atmospheric neutrino flux given by Honda et al. These
calculations have been done in the local density approximation. We take into
account the effect of Pauli blocking, Fermi motion, Coulomb effect,
renormalization of weak transition strengths in the nuclear medium in the case
of the quasielastic reactions. The inelastic reactions leading to production of
leptons along with pions is calculated in a - dominance model by
taking into account the renormalization of properties in the nuclear
medium and the final state interaction effects of the outgoing pions with the
residual nucleus. We present the results for the lepton events obtained in our
model with and without nuclear medium effects, and compare them with the Monte
Carlo predictions used in the simulation and the experimentally observed events
reported by the Super-Kamiokande collaboration.Comment: 23 pages, 13 figure
Neutrino hierarchy from CP-blind observables with high density magnetized detectors
High density magnetized detectors are well suited to exploit the outstanding
purity and intensities of novel neutrino sources like Neutrino Factories and
Beta Beams. They can also provide independent measurements of leptonic mixing
parameters through the observation of atmospheric muon-neutrinos. In this
paper, we discuss the combination of these observables from a multi-kton iron
detector and a high energy Beta Beam; in particular, we demonstrate that even
with moderate detector granularities the neutrino mass hierarchy can be
determined for values greater than 4.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures. Added a new section discussing systematic errors
(sec 5.2); sec.5.1 and 4 have been extended. Version to appear in EPJ
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