668 research outputs found
Exploring Neutrino Oscillations with Superbeams
We consider the medium- and long-baseline oscillation physics capabilities of
intense muon-neutrino and muon-antineutrino beams produced using future
upgraded megawatt-scale high-energy proton beams. In particular we consider the
potential of these conventional neutrino ``superbeams'' for observing
\nu_\mu\to\nu_e oscillations, determining the hierarchy of neutrino mass
eigenstates, and measuring CP-violation in the lepton sector. The physics
capabilities of superbeams are explored as a function of the beam energy,
baseline, and the detector parameters. The trade-offs between very large
detectors with poor background rejection and smaller detectors with excellent
background rejection are illustrated. We find that it may be possible to
observe \nu_\mu\to\nu_e oscillations with a superbeam provided that the
amplitude parameter \sin^2 2\theta_{13} is larger than a few \times 10^{-3}. If
\sin^2 2\theta_{13} is of order 10^{-2} or larger, then the neutrino mass
hierarchy can be determined in long-baseline experiments, and if in addition
the large mixing angle MSW solution describes the solar neutrino deficit then
there is a small region of parameter space within which maximal CP-violation in
the lepton sector would be observable in a low-energy medium-baseline
experiment. We explicitly consider massive water Cherenkov and liquid argon
detectors at superbeams with neutrino energies ranging from 1 GeV to 15 GeV,
and baselines from 295 km to 9300 km. Finally, we compare the oscillation
physics prospects at superbeams with the corresponding prospects at neutrino
factories. The sensitivity at a neutrino factory to CP violation and the
neutrino mass hierarchy extends to values of the amplitude parameter \sin^2
2\theta_{13} that are one to two orders of magnitude lower than at a superbeam.Comment: Revtex (singlespaced), 41 pages, uses epsf.sty, 12 postscript
figures. Minor corrections and notation changes, expanded discussions, x-axis
numbers added to Fig.9(a),(c). To be published in Phys. Rev.
Confronting mass-varying neutrinos with MiniBooNE
We study the proposal that mass-varying neutrinos could provide an
explanation for the LSND signal for \bar\nu_mu to \bar\nu_e oscillations. We
first point out that all positive oscillation signals occur in matter and that
three active mass-varying neutrinos are insufficient to describe all existing
neutrino data including LSND. We then examine the possibility that a model with
four mass-varying neutrinos (three active and one sterile) can explain the LSND
effect and remain consistent with all other neutrino data. We find that such
models with a 3+1 mass structure in the neutrino sector may explain the LSND
data and a null MiniBooNE result for 0.10 < \sin^2 2\theta_x < 0.30.
Predictions of the model include a null result at Double-CHOOZ, but positive
signals for underground reactor experiments and for \nu_\mu to \nu_e
oscillations in long-baseline experiments.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Comment added about recent MINOS dat
Unknowns after the SNO Charged-Current Measurement
We perform a model-independent analysis of solar neutrino flux rates
including the recent charged-current measurement at the Sudbury Neutrino
Observatory (SNO). We derive a universal sum rule involving SNO and
SuperKamiokande rates, and show that the SNO neutral-current measurement can
not fix the fraction of solar oscillating to sterile neutrinos. The
large uncertainty in the SSM B flux impedes a determination of the sterile
neutrino fraction.Comment: Version to appear in PRL; includes analysis with anticipated SNO NC
measuremen
Probing neutrino oscillations jointly in long and very long baseline experiments
We examine the prospects of making a joint analysis of neutrino oscillation
at two baselines with neutrino superbeams. Assuming narrow band superbeams and
a 100 kt water Cerenkov calorimeter, we calculate the event rates and
sensitivities to the matter effect, the signs of the neutrino mass differences,
the CP phase and the mixing angle \theta_{13}. Taking into account all possible
experimental errors under general consideration, we explored the optimum cases
of narrow band beam to measure the matter effect and the CP violation effect at
all baselines up to 3000 km. We then focus on two specific baselines, a long
baseline of 300 km and a very long baseline of 2100 km, and analyze their joint
capabilities. We found that the joint analysis can offer extra leverage to
resolve some of the ambiguities that are associated with the measurement at a
single baseline.Comment: 23 pages, 11 figure
Ab initio calculation of the KRb dipole moments
The relativistic configuration interaction valence bond method has been used
to calculate permanent and transition electric dipole moments of the KRb
heteronuclear molecule as a function of internuclear separation. The permanent
dipole moment of the ground state potential is found to be
0.30(2) at the equilibrium internuclear separation with excess negative
charge on the potassium atom. For the potential the dipole moment
is an order of magnitude smaller (1 Cm) In addition, we
calculate transition dipole moments between the two ground-state and
excited-state potentials that dissociate to the K(4s)+Rb(5p) limits. Using this
data we propose a way to produce singlet KRb molecules by a
two-photon Raman process starting from an ultracold mixture of doubly
spin-polarized ground state K and Rb atoms. This Raman process is only allowed
due to relativistic spin-orbit couplings and the absence of gerade/ungerade
selection rules in heteronuclear dimers.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Unitarity Constraints on Anomalous Top Quark Couplings to Weak Gauge Bosons
If there is new physics associated with the top quark, it could show up as
anomalous couplings of the top quark to weak gauge bosons, such as Z\ttbar
and W\tbbar vector and axial-vector couplings. We use the processes
\ttbar\to Z^0Z^0, \ttbar\to W^+W^-, and \ttbar\to Z^0H to obtain the
unitarity constraints on these anomalous couplings, and combine these
constraints with those from precision electroweak data. The unitarity
constraints can impose additional limits on the anomalous couplings when the
scale of new physics is as low as 2 TeV. A nonzero measurement of such an
anomalous coupling leads to an upper limit on the new physics scale from the
unitarity condition.Comment: 12 pages, Latex, 4 postscipt figures included. Resubmitted with major
revisions, including the newest data on $R_b
Single Top Quark Production via FCNC Couplings at Hadron Colliders
We calculate single top-quark production at hadron colliders via the
chromo-magnetic flavor-changing neutral current couplings and . We find that the strength for the anomalous ()
coupling may be probed to () at the Tevatron with of data and
() at the LHC with of data. The two couplings may be
distinguished by a comparision of the single top signal with the direct top and
top decay signals for these couplings.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, 3 table
Probing anomalous top quark interactions at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
We study the effects of dimension-six operators contributing to the vertex in top quark pair production at the Tevatron collider. We derive both
the limits from Run 1 data and the potential bounds from future runs (Run 2 and
3). Although the current constraints are not very strong, the future runs are
quite effective in probing these operators. We investigate the possibility of
disentangling different operators with the invariant mass
distribution and the top quark polarization asymmetry. We also study the
effects of a different set of operators contributing to single top production
via the coupling. We derive the current and potential future bounds
on these anomalous operators and find that the upgraded Tevatron can improve
the existing constraints from for one of the operators.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures, REVTEX, some clarifying remarks adde
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