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Status of 3-neutrino and 4-neutrino scenarios
Some aspects of the current neutrino oscillation phenomenology are briefly
discussed, with emphasis on the status of mass-mixing parameters relevant for
scenarios with three active neutrinos, and with an additional fourth sterile
neutrino.Comment: 3 pages (including 1 figure). Talk presented at NOW 2000, 2nd
International Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (Conca Specchiulla,
Otranto, Italy), September 9-16, 2000, to be published in Nucl. Phys. B
(Proc. Suppl.
Statistical treatment of detection cross-section uncertainties in the analysis of solar neutrino data
We propose a modification to the standard statistical treatment of the
detection cross-section uncertainties in the analysis of solar neutrino data.
We argue that the uncertainties of the energy-averaged cross sections of the
different neutrino fluxes in the same experiment should be treated as
correlated. We show that the resulting allowed regions for the neutrino
oscillation parameters are significantly larger than the ones obtained with
uncorrelated uncertainties.Comment: 12 pages. Corrected Figures 4 and 5 (vacuum oscillations
Phenomenology of Neutrino Oscillations
We review the status of several phenomenological topics of current interest
in neutrino oscillations: (i) Solar neutrino oscillations after the first
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory measurements, including both model-independent and
model-dependent results; (ii) Dominant nu_mu-->nu_tau oscillations of
atmospheric and K2K neutrinos, and possible subdominant oscillations induced by
either extra states or extra interactions; and (iii) Four-neutrino scenarios
embedding the controversial LSND evidence for oscillations.Comment: 9 pages, including 12 figures. Presented at TAUP 2001: Topics in
Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Assergi, Italy, 8-12 Sep. 200
Analysis of oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos
We briefly review the current status of standard oscillations of atmospheric
neutrinos in schemes with two, three, and four flavor mixing. It is shown that,
although the pure \nu_\mu-->\nu_\tau channel provides an excellent 2\nu fit to
the data, one cannot exclude, at present, the occurrence of additional
subleading \nu_\mu-->\nu_e oscillations (3\nu schemes) or of sizable
\nu_\mu-->\nu_s oscillations (4\nu schemes). It is also shown that the wide
dynamical range of energy and pathlength probed by the Super-Kamiokande
experiment puts severe constraints on nonstandard explanations of the
atmospheric neutrino data, with a few notable exceptions.Comment: Talk at the 19th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and
Astrophysics - Neutrino 2000 (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 16-21 June 2000
Neutrino Oscillation and CP Violation
We reconsider the meaning of observing CP violation in neutrino oscillation.Comment: Talk given at the NUFACT'00: International Workshop on Muon Storage
Ring for a Neutrino Factory, Monterey, California, 22-26 May 2000. Several
typographical errors are correcte
Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrinos: Status of subdominant oscillations
In the context of the recent (79.5 kTy) Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino
data, we concisely review the status of muonic-tauonic flavor oscillations and
of the subdominant electron or sterile neutrino mixing, in schemes with three
or four families and one dominant mass scale. In the three-family case, where
we include the full CHOOZ spectral data, we also show, through a specific
example, that ``maximal'' violations of the one-dominant mass scale
approximation are not ruled out yet.Comment: 8 pages + 10 figure
Is neutrino decay really ruled out as a solution to the atmospheric neutrino problem from Super-Kamiokande data?
In this paper we do a detailed -analysis of the 848 days of
Super-Kamiokande(SK) atmospheric neutrino data under the assumptions of
oscillation and neutrino decay. For the latter we take the
most general case of neutrinos with non-zero mixing and consider the
possibilities of the unstable component in decaying to a state with
which it mixes (scenario (a)) and to a sterile state with which it does not mix
(scenario (b)). In the first case (mass squared difference between
the two mass states which mix) has to be 0.1 from constraints on
decays while for the second case can be unconstrained. For case
(a) does not enter the -analysis while in case (b) it
enters the -analysis as an independent parameter. In scenario (a) there
is \dm averaged oscillation in addition to decay and this gets ruled out at
100.0% C.L. by the latest SK data. Scenario (b) on the other hand gives a
reasonably good fit to the data for \dm .Comment: Version to appear in Astropart. Phy
Four-neutrino mixing solutions of the atmospheric neutrino anomaly
Solutions to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly which smoothly interpolate
between nu_mu -> nu_tau and nu_mu -> nu_s oscillations are studied. It is shown
that, although the Super-Kamiokande data disfavor the pure nu_mu -> nu_s
channel, one cannot exclude sizable amplitude for the nu_mu -> nu_s channel in
addition to nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations.Comment: Talk given at Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW2000),
Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Lecce, Ita, 9-16 Sep 200
Solar neutrino oscillations in the quasi-vacuum regime
Motivated by recent experimental data, we study solar neutrino oscillations
in the range 10^-10 < delta m^2/E < 10^-7 eV^2/MeV. In this range vacuum
oscillations become increasingly affected by (solar and terrestrial) matter
effects for increasing delta m^2, smoothly reaching the MSW regime. A numerical
study of matter effects in such "quasi-vacuum" regime is performed. The results
are applied to the analysis of the recent solar neutrino phenomenology.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation
Workshop (NOW 2000), Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Lecce, Italy, 9-16 Sep 2000.
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Three-flavor solar neutrino oscillations with terrestrial neutrino constraints
We present an updated analysis of the current solar neutrino data in terms of
three-flavor oscillations, including the additional constraints coming from
terrestrial neutrino oscillation searches at the CHOOZ (reactor),
Super-Kamiokande (atmospheric), and KEK-to-Kamioka (accelerator) experiments.
The best fit is reached for the subcase of two-family mixing, and the
additional admixture with the third neutrino is severely limited. We discuss
the relevant features of the globally allowed regions in the oscillation
parameter space, as well as their impact on the amplitude of possible
CP-violation effects at future accelerator experiments and on the
reconstruction accuracy of the mass-mixing oscillation parameters at the
KamLAND reactor experiment.Comment: 10 pages + 8 figure
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