大亚湾反应堆中微子实验

中微子振荡是目前唯一超出粒子物理标准模型的新现象，它证明了中微子质量不为零，对粒子物理、天体物理与宇宙学均有非常重要的意义．在描述中微子振荡的6个参数中，目前仍有两个未知：交叉混合角θ13与CP相角δ．作者建议在大亚湾反应堆附近建设一个中微子实验站，测量混合角sin^2θ13，在90％的置信度下达到0．01的精度，较过去的实验提高近一个数量级．这将对中微子物理的未来发展提供方向性指导，特别是对理解宇宙中“反物质消失之谜”具有重要意义．     

大亚湾反应堆中微子实验

中微子振荡是目前唯一超出粒子物理标准模型的新现象,它证明了中微子质量不为零,对粒子物理、天体物理与宇宙学均有非常重要的意义.在描述中微子振荡的6个参数中,目前仍有两个未知：交叉混合角θ13与CP相角δ. 作者建议在大亚湾反应堆附近建设一个中微子实验站,测量混合角sin22θ13在90%的置信度下达到0.01 的精度,较过去的实验提高近一个数量级.这将对中微子物理的未来发展提供方向性指导,特别是对理解宇宙中“反物质消失之谜”具有重要意义.     

中微子振荡的发现及未来

2015年诺贝尔物理学奖授予日本物理学家·田隆章和加拿大物理学家阿瑟·麦克唐纳,奖励他们发现中微子振荡现象,从而证明中微子具有非零的静止质量。这是粒子物理学唯一具有确凿实验证据的超出标准模型的新物理现象,改变了人类对物质世界基本规律的认识。文章将回顾中微子振荡现象的发现过程,介绍太阳中微子和大气中微子振荡实验的实验结果和理论解释,以及近期反应堆和加速器中微子振荡的研究成果,并展望中微子研究的前景。     

Overview on neutrinos and the Daya Bay experiment

Neutrinos are elementary particles in the Standard Model. Neutrino oscillation is a quantum mechanical phenomenon beyond the Standard Model. Neutrino oscillation can be described by two independent mass-squared differences Δm ₂₁ ² , Δm ₃₁ ² (or Δm ₃₂ ² ) and a 3 × 3 unitary matrix, containing three mixing angles θ ₁₂, θ ₂₃, θ ₁₃, and one charge-parity (CP) phase. θ ₁₂ is about 34° and determined by solar neutrino experiments and the reactor neutrino experiment KamLAND. θ ₂₃ is about 45° and determined by atmospheric neutrino experiments and accelerator neutrino experiments. θ ₁₃ can be measured by either accelerator or reactor neutrino experiments. On Mar. 8, 2012, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment reported the first observation of non-zero θ ₁₃ with 5.2 standard deviations. In June, with 2.5× previous data, Daya Bay improved the measurement of sin²2θ ₁₃ = 0.089 ± 0.010(stat) ± 0.005(syst).     

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.     

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.     

2002年度诺贝尔物理奖

对2002年度的诺贝尔物理奖和中微子天文学以及一些相关的有趣问题作了比较详细的介绍。介绍了太阳中微子短缺之谜以及长达三四十年的奋斗历程;SN1987A中微子的发现以及最近太阳中微子短缺之谜的解决。还介绍了X射线天文学的发现和进展。现在,X射线天文学已经发展成为可与光学天文学、射电天文学媲美的一门举足轻重的学科。     

Perturbation theory of neutrino oscillations with and without nonstandard interactions

After making brief comments on the Kamioka-Korea two-detector setting, I delivered a pedagogical seminar on perturbation theory of neutrino oscillations with and without nonstandard interactions. I also described a general property of neutrino flavor transformation of such a system which includes useful relationships between S matrix elements and a phase reduction theorem.     

Working group report: Astroparticle and neutrino physics

The working group on astroparticle and neutrino physics at WHEPP-9 covered a wide range of topics. The main topics were neutrino physics at INO, neutrino astronomy and recent constraints on dark energy coming from cosmological observations of large scale structure and CMB anisotropy.     

Maximal atmospheric neutrino mixing from texture zeros and quasi-degenerate neutrino masses

It is well known that, in the basis where the charged-lepton mass matrix is diagonal, there are seven cases of two texture zeros in Majorana neutrino mass matrices that are compatible with all experimental data. We show that two of these cases, namely B₃ and B₄ in the classification of Frampton, Glashow and Marfatia, are special in the sense that they automatically lead to near-maximal atmospheric neutrino mixing in the limit of a quasi-degenerate neutrino mass spectrum. This property holds true irrespective of the values of the solar and reactor mixing angles because, for these two cases, in the limit of a quasi-degenerate spectrum, the second and third row of the lepton mixing matrix are, up to signs, approximately complex-conjugate to each other. Moreover, in the same limit the aforementioned cases also develop a maximal CP-violating CKM-type phase, provided the reactor mixing angle is not too small.     

Charged-current non-standard neutrino interactions at the LHC and HL-LHC

A series of new physics scenarios predict the existence of the extra charged gauge boson \begin{document}$ W' $\end{document}, which can induce charged-current (CC) non-standard neutrino interactions (NSIs). The theoretical constraints on the simplified \begin{document}$ W' $\end{document} model and further on the CC NSI parameters \begin{document}$ \widetilde{\epsilon}^{ qq'Y}_{\alpha\beta} $\end{document} from partial wave unitarity and \begin{document}$ W' $\end{document} decays are considered. The sensitivity of the process \begin{document}$ p p \rightarrow W'\rightarrow \ell\nu $\end{document} to the \begin{document}$ W' $\end{document} model at the LHC and high-luminosity (HL) LHC experiments is investigated by estimating the expected constraints on \begin{document}$ \widetilde{\epsilon}^{qq'Y}_{\alpha\beta} $\end{document} (\begin{document}$ \alpha = \beta = e $\end{document} or μ) using a Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation. We find that the interference effect plays an important role, and the LHC can strongly constrain \begin{document}$ \widetilde{\epsilon}^{qq'L}_{\alpha\beta} $\end{document}. Compared with those at the \begin{document}$ 13 \;{\rm TeV} $\end{document} LHC with \begin{document}$ {\cal{L}}=139\;{\rm fb}^{-1} $\end{document}, the expected constraints at the \begin{document}$ 14 \;{\rm TeV} $\end{document} LHC with \begin{document}$ {\cal{L}}=3\;{\rm ab}^{-1} $\end{document} can be strengthened to approximately one order of magnitude.     

Domain of mixing angles in three flavor neutrino oscillations

We clarify the domain needed for the mixing angles in three flavor neutrino oscillations. By comparing the ranges of the transition probabilities as functions of the domains of the mixing angles, we show that it is necessary and sufficient to let all mixing angles be in . This holds irrespectively of any assumptions on the neutrino mass squared differences.     

Lorentz violation constrained by triplicity of lepton families and neutrino oscillations

In this paper we postulate an algebraic model to relate the triplet characteristic of lepton families to Lorentz violation. Inspired by the two-to-one mapping between the group SL(2, C) and the Lorentz group via the Pauli grading (the elements of SL(2, C) expressed by direct sum of unit matrix and generators of SU (2) group), we grade the SL(3, C) group with the generators of SU(3), i. e. the Gell-Mann matrices, then express the SU(3) group in terms of three SU(2) subgroups, each of which stands for a lepton species and is mapped into the proper Lorentz group as in the case of the group SL(2,C). If the mapping from group SL(3,C) to the Lorentz group is constructed by choosing one SU(2) subgroup as basis, then the other two subgroups display their impact only by one more additional generator to that of the original Lorentz group. Applying the mapping result to the Dirac equation, it is found that only when the kinetic vertex γμξμ is extended to encompass γμξμ can the Dirac-equation-form be conserved. The generalized vertex is useful in producing neutrino oscillations and mass differences.     

Kasner 时空中的中微子振荡相位

研究了质量中微子在 Kasner 时空特殊情况下的传播相位和振荡特征长度,得到了中微子的零短程线相位是短程线相位一半的关系.当参数a=0时,Kasner 时空中的传播相位和史瓦希时空中的相同.这一问题的研究在宇宙学中是有意义的^[1-3]. 关键词： 传播相位 Kasner 时空 质量中微子 振荡特征长度     

Results from solar, atmospheric and K2K experiments and future possibilities with T2K

Recent results from solar, reactor, atmospheric and long baseline (K2K) experiments are discussed. With the improved data statistics and analyses, our knowledge on the neutrino masses and mixing angles are steadily improving. T2K is the next generation neutrino oscillation experiment between J-PARC in Tokai and Super-Kamiokande. This experiment will start in 2009. This experiment is expected to improve the current knowledge on the neutrino masses and mixings substantially.     

Lorentz violation constrained by triplicity of lepton families and neutrino oscillations

In this paper we postulate an algebraic model to relate the triplet characteristic of lepton families to Lorentz violation. Inspired by the two-to-one mapping between the group SL（2, C） and the Lorentz group via the Pauli grading （the elements of SL（2, C） expressed by direct sum of unit matrix and generators of SU（2） group）, we grade the SL（3,C） group with the generators of SU（3）, i. e. the Gell-Mann matrices, then express the SU（3） group in terms of three SU（2） subgroups, each of which stands for a lepton species and is mapped into the proper Lorentz group as in the case of the group SL（2,C）. If the mapping from group SL（3,C） to the Lorentz group is constructed by choosing one SU（2） subgroup as basis, then the other two subgroups display their impact only by one more additional generator to that of the original Lorentz group. Applying the mapping result to the Dirac equation, it is found that only when the kinetic vertex -γμθ^μ is extended to encompass γ5γμθ^μ can the Dirac-equation-form be conserved. The generalized vertex is useful in producing neutrino oscillations and mass differences.     

Nuclear responses for double-beta decays by hadron, photon, and neutrino probes and MOON experiment

Neutrino-less double-beta decays (0νββ) with the mass sensitivities of the solar and atmospheric ν masses are of great interest for studying the Majorana nature of neutrinos and the absolute mass spectrum as suggested by recent ν oscillation experiments. Here nuclear responses (nuclear matrix elements) for 0νββ are crucial. They are well studied experimentally by using charge-exchange, photo-nuclear and neutrino reactions. MOON(Mo Observatory Of Neutrinos) is a high sensitivity 0νβ β experiment with the mass sensitivity of an order of 30 meV. Experimental studies of the nuclear responses and the present status of MOON are briefly discussed. Presented by the author at the Workshop on calculation of double-beta-decay matrix elements (MEDEX’05), Corfu, Greece, September 26–29, 2005.