中微子振荡与中微子的静止质量

简要回顾了中微子的发现过程,论述了中微子的基本性质及三种不同类型的中微子,讨论了中微子振荡的最新实验结果及其与中微子静止质量的关系,指出了中微子的静止质量在物理学与天文学中的重要性以及确定中微子的静止质量有待进一步解决的问题。     

中微子的探索

从中微子概念的提出、中微子的发现及中微子振荡等方面,回顾了对中微子的探索历程.着重叙述了1988年、1995年、2002年获得诺贝尔物理学奖的中微子研究成果及我国大亚湾中微子实验的重大成就,并扼要介绍了未来的中微子研究方向.     

中微子物理

近十几年来积累的数据表明,有相当数量的太阳中微子流在从太阳到地球探测器的漫长旅程中丢失了。最新的大气中微子实验结果指出,宇宙射线引起的大气中νμ与νｅ的比例不是原有理论预言的２：１,而是接近１：１,而且发现从上而下的νμ数目比从下而上的多,νｅ的数量却基本不变,这两种现象可能是源于中微子振荡或其他的机制,然而这些机制并没有包含在２０世纪的最成功的理论－最小标准模型中。换言之,要合理解释反观测到的中     

中微子质量和中微子振荡实验

本介绍中微子质量测量的历史和现状。介绍太阳中微子丢失实验的结果和大气μ中微子丢失实验结果。这些结果表明存在中微子振荡,即中微子具有质量。它是超出标准模型的信号。本还介绍了21世纪初研究中微子振荡的若干重要实验,例如长基线中微子振荡实验以及建造μ子 贮存环来产生高能电子中微子束进行中微子振荡的实验以及测量中微子振荡时的CP破坏的设想。     

太阳中微子问题研究进展

系统评述了国际上对太阳中微子研究的进展 ,说明了核物理实验对研究太阳中微子问题作出的贡献 ,对未来的中微子实验作了展望.The comparison between experimental results and theoretical predictions has yielded the solar neutrino problem. Over the years, the large communities of astrophysics and of nuclear physics took enormous efforts in solving this problem. The current progress on the study of solar neutrino problem is reviewed. Nuclear physics can make a significant contribution to this problem. The importance of the nuclear physics experiment is introduced. To minimize the uncertainties of neutrino detection has led to new...     

A New Type of Accessible Environmental Influences on Neutrino Oscillation

Considering a new type of environment influences,we use a two-energy-level(ν1-ν2) quantum system to investigate neutrino oscillations in medium.Besides the matter effects derived by Wolfenstein,there may exist extra terms due to a unitary evolution of the system between pure and mixed states,so the evolution equation is modified obviously.We show that the extra terms may play some role and induce observable effects in solar neutrino problem,especially,in the long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments which are under serious consideration recently,if the parameters fall into a suitable region.     

探索中微子之谜:回顾与展望

中微子的静质量是２０世纪末物理学中一个有待解决的重要问题,它在粒子物理学、宇宙学和天体物理学中占有重要的地位。文章首先评述了太阳中微子实验、大气中微子实验、超新星中微子实验和加速器中微子实验的历史、现状和发展。多年来的实验显示,中微子具有不为零的静质量,可以通过 不同的味之间转换。至少有两个理论描述了中微子振荡,即真空振荡机制和ＭＳＷ机制,文章讨论了这两个理论及其实验判据。最后,介绍了测量中微子静     

认识中微子

由于中微子的作用截面很小而不容易被探测和认识，从而人们给予中微子一些独特的性质，如中微子没有确定的内禀宇称，没有静止质量和磁矩或存在所谓中微子振荡现象等。     

2002年诺贝尔物理奖的启示

本文论述2002年诺贝尔物理奖获得者,R.Davis在探测太阳中微子丢失的成就;M.Koshiba在证实存在太阳中微子丢失,探测超新星中微子和大气μ中微子丢失以及证明μ中微子振荡的成就。此外,本文还叙述2002年诺贝尔物理奖给我们的启示。     

中微子振荡实验——超出标准模型的实验检验（Ⅰ）

文章总结了中微子振荡实验在历史和现状,介绍了几个太阳中微子丢失实验的结果和几个大气μ中微子丢失实验结果,这些结果表明存在中微子振荡,即中微子具有质量,它是超出标准模型的信号,文章还介绍了21世纪初研究中微子振荡和若干重要实验,噬基线中微子振荡实验以及建造μ子贮存环来产生高能电子中微子束进行中微子振荡的实验以及测量中微子振荡时的CP破坏的设想。     

Systematic impact of spent nuclear fuel on θ13 sensitivity at reactor neutrino experiment

Reactor neutrino oscillation experiments, such as Daya Bay, Double Chooz and RENO are designed to determine the neutrino mixing angle θ13 with a sensitivity of 0.01--0.03 in sin2 2θ13 at 90% confidence level, an improvement over the current limit by more than one order of magnitude. The control of systematic uncertainties is critical to achieving the sin2 2θ13 sensitivity goal of these experiments. Antineutrinos emitted from spent nuclear fuel (SNF) would distort the soft part of energy spectrum and may introduce a non-negligible systematic uncertainty. In this article, a detailed calculation of SNF neutrinos is performed taking account of the operation of a typical reactor and the event rate in the detector is obtained. A further estimation shows that the event rate contribution of SNF neutrinos is less than 0.2% relative to the reactor neutrino signals. A global χ2 analysis shows that this uncertainty will degrade the θ13 sensitivity at a negligible level.     

TEXONO中微子实验屏蔽效果的Monte Carlo研究

TEXONO实验采用CsI (T1)晶体量能器测量反应堆低能中微子的能谱和通量,确定中微子ν_e的反常磁矩并为中微子振荡实验做技术准备.详细描述了屏蔽体的安排,本底的主要来源,基于GEANT3软件包做了Monte Carlo研究,得到屏蔽体对本底的屏蔽效果.     

利用超新星爆发测量电子中微子静止质量

综述了中微子静止质量ｍυｅ的测量方法与结果,侧重介绍了超新星ＳＮ８７Ａ中微子测量的结果,即得到具有能量为８ＭｅＶ和３６ＭｅＶ的中微子飞行时间差,对于Ｋａｍｉｏｋａｎｄｅ,ＩＭＢ,Ｂａｋｓｏｎ分别为１．９ｓ,６ｓ和９ｓ,由此给出电子中微子静止质量上限为１４ｅＶ「９５％置信水平（Ｃ．Ｌ．）」,并且描述了计划建造的新型太阳中微子能谱仪,该谱仪在观测太阳中微子能谱的同时,将兼测超新星中微子,提供了在ｍυｅ〈１ｅＶ范围内测量中微子静止质量的可能性。     

IceCube Neutrinos: from Oscillations to PeV-Energy Events

With IceCube and its low-energy extension DeepCore, a neutrino detector with an energy reach from tens of gigaelectronvolt to exaelectronvolt has been commissioned. It measures the atmospheric neutrino spectrum from the lower energies where neutrinos oscillate to energies as large as 100 TeV with a statistic of more than 100,000 events per year. The initial results suggest that IceCube can measure the oscillation parameters in an energy range that exceeds existing observations by 1 order of magnitude, thus opening a new window on neutrino physics. We emphasize the search for sterile neutrinos particularly relevant to cosmology. We also discuss the first observation of (PEV) petaelectronvolt-Energy events that cannot be accommodated by the flux anticipated by extrapolation of the present atmospheric neutrino measurements.     

Search for charm-quark production via dimuons in neutrino telescopes

Dimuon events induced by charm-quark productions from neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) processes have been studied in traditional DIS experiments for decades. The recent progress in neutrino telescopes makes it possible to search for such dimuon events at energies far beyond the laboratory scale. In this study, we construct a simulation framework to calculate yields and distributions of dimuon signals in an IceCube-like km³ scale neutrino telescope. Owing to the experimental limitation in the resolution of double-track lateral distance, only dimuons produced outside the detector volume are considered. Detailed information about simulation results for a 10-year exposure is presented. As an earlier paper[Physical Review D 105, 093005 (2022)] and ours report on a similar situation, we use that paper as a baseline to conduct comparisons. We then estimate the impacts of different calculation methods of muon energy losses. Finally, we study the experimental potential of dimuon searches under the hypothesis of single-muon background only. Our results based on a simplified double-track reconstruction indicate a moderate sensitivity, especially with the ORCA configuration. Further developments on both the reconstruction algorithm and possible detector designs are thus required and are under investigation.     

Atmospheric neutrinos and discovery of neutrino oscillations

Neutrino oscillation was discovered through studies of neutrinos produced by cosmic-ray interactions in the atmosphere. These neutrinos are called atmospheric neutrinos. They are produced as decay products in hadronic showers resulting from collisions of cosmic rays with nuclei in the atmosphere. Electron-neutrinos and muon-neutrinos are produced mainly by the decay chain of charged pions to muons to electrons. Atmospheric neutrino experiments observed zenith-angle and energy dependent deficit of muon-neutrino events. Neutrino oscillations between muon-neutrinos and tau-neutrinos explain these data well. Neutrino oscillations imply that neutrinos have small but non-zero masses. The small neutrino masses have profound implications to our understanding of elementary particle physics and the Universe. This article discusses the experimental discovery of neutrino oscillations.     

Neutrino oscillation beyond the Standard Model

A short review of the theory of neutrino oscillation for non-standard neutrino interaction (NSI) which may exist at low energy is presented. Depending on the NSI, initial neutrino states can be mixed and final oscillation rates not necessarily factorize.     

Hunting potassium geoneutrinos with liquid scintillator Cherenkov neutrino detectors

The research on geoneutrinos is a new interdisciplinary subject involving particle experiments and geo-science.Potassium-40(40K)decays contribute roughly to 1/3 of the radiogenic heat of the Earth,which is not yet accounted for by experimental observation.Solar neutrino experiments with liquid scintillators have observed uranium and thorium geoneutrinos and are the most promising experiments with regard to low-background neutrino detection.In this study,we present the new concept of using liquid-scintillator Cherenkov detectors to detect the neutrino-electron elastic scattering process of 40K geoneutrinos.Liquid-scintillator Cherenkov detectors using a slow liquid scintillator achieve this goal with both energy and direction measurements for charged particles.Given the directionality,we can significantly suppress the dominant intrinsic background originating from solar neutrinos in conventional liquid-scintillator detectors.We simulated the solar-and geo-neutrino scatterings in the slow liquid scintillator detector,and implemented energy and directional reconstructions for the recoiling electrons.We found that 40K geoneutrinos can be detected with three-standard-deviation accuracy in a kiloton-scale detector.     

Detecting dark energy in long baseline neutrino oscillations

In this paper, we discuss a possibility of studying properties of dark energy in long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. We consider two types of models of neutrino dark energy. For one type of models the scalar field is taken to be quintessence-like and for the other phantom-like. In these models the scalar fields couple to the neutrinos to give rise to spatially varying neutrino masses. We will show that the two types of models predict different behaviors of the spatial variation of the neutrino masses inside the Earth and consequently result in different signals in long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments.