Do two flavour oscillations explain both KamLAND data and the solar neutrino spectrum?

DOI10.1007/S10773-010-0660-3zbMATH Open1213.85037arXivhep-ph/0503092OpenAlexW3099969827MaRDI QIDQ539619FDOQ539619

S. Uma Sankar, Bipin Singh Koranga, Mohan Narayan

Publication date: 30 May 2011

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The recent measurement of Delta_{sol} by the KamLAND experiment with very small errors, makes definitive predictions for the energy dependence of the solar neutrino survival probability P_{ee}. We fix Delta_{sol} to be the KamLAND best fit value of 8*10^{-5} eV^2 and study the energy dependence of P_{ee} for solar neutrinos in the framework of two flavour oscillations and also of three flavour oscillations. For the case of two flavour oscillations, P_{ee} has a measurable slope in the 5-8 MeV range but the solar spectrum measurements in this range find P_{ee} to be flat. The predicted values of P_{ee}, even for the best fit value of theta_{sol}, differ by 2 to 3 sigma from the Super-K measured values in each of the three energy bins of the 5-8 MeV range. If future measurements of solar neutrinos by Super-K and SNO find a flat spectrum with reduced error bars (by a factor of 2), it will imply that two flavour oscillations can no longer explain both KamLAND data and the solar spectrum. However a flat solar neutrino spectrum and the Delta_{sol} measured by KamLAND can be reconciled in a three flavour oscillation framework with a moderate value of theta_{13} approx 13 degrees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0503092

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zbMATH Keywords

neutrino oscilationsolar neutrino spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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• Variations on KamLAND: likelihood analysis and frequentist confidence regions

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