Solar neutrino oscillation diagnostics at SuperKamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Majumdar, Debasish ; Raychaudhuri, Amitava (1999) Solar neutrino oscillation diagnostics at SuperKamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Pramana - Journal of Physics, 52 (5). L529-L536. ISSN 0304-4289

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Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02830099

Abstract

Results for solar neutrino detection from the SuperKamiokande collaboration have been presented recently while those from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are expected in the near future. These experiments are sensitive to the B neutrinos from the sun, the shape of whose spectrum is well-known but the normalization is less certain. We propose several variables, insensitive to the absolute flux of the incident beam, which probe the shape of the observed spectrum and can sensitively signal neutrino oscillations. They provide methods to extract the neutrino mixing angle and mass splitting from the data and also to distinguish oscillation to sequential neutrinos from those to a sterile neutrino.

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Keywords:Neutrino Oscillation; Solar Neutrino; SuperKamiokande; Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
ID Code:43244
Deposited On:10 Jun 2011 13:42
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