Solving Solar Neutrino Puzzle via LMA MSW Conversion

We analyze the existing solar neutrino experiment data and show the allowed regions. The result from SNO‘s salt phase itself restricts quite a lot the allowed region‘s area. Reactor neutrinos play an important role in determining oscillation parameters. KamLAND gives decisive conclusion on the solution to the solar neutrino puzzle, in particular, the spectral distortion in the 766.3 Ty KamLAND data gives another new improvement in the constraint of solar MSW-LMA solutions. We confirm that at 99. 73% C.L. the high-LMA solution is excluded.     

Solar Neutrino Problem in Seesaw Model

A specific texture for the Dirac and Majorana mass matrices in the seesaw model leading to a pair of almost degenerate neutrinos is discussed. This texture can be obtained by imposing a global U(1) symmetry. This model could solve the solar neutrino problem through the MSW mechanism and offer the hot component of the dark matter of the universe which requires Σm_vi = 7 eV.     

Solar neutrino oscillation diagnostics at SuperKamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

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 the⁸B 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.     

新型太阳中微子闪烁探测器的研制

概述了一种新型太阳中微子闪烁探测器的研制,其中载钆(Gd)液体闪烁体的Gd浓度达到5%、光的衰减长度≥150cm、对60keV的Gamma-ray之能量分辨率为21%(σ);直径1cm、厚3cm的GSO:Ce晶体,其发光产额约为NaI(Tl)晶体的20%、光的衰减时间为60ns、对662keVGamma-ray之能量分辨率为9.2%(σ).文章讨论了由这两种闪烁体构成的复合探测器的特点及作为太阳中微子探测器其本底的降低措施.对直径10cm、厚50cm的这种复合探测器的模拟计算表明其光的收集效率可达20%.     

Quantum Mechanics of Neutrino Oscillations

We present a simple but general treatment of neutrino oscillations in the framework of quantum mechanics, using plane waves and intuitive wave packet principles when necessary. We attempt to clarify some confusing statements that have recently appeared in the literature.     

Optimization of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters Using Differential Evolution

We show how the traditional grid based method for finding neutrino oscillation parameters m2 and tan 2θ can be combined with an optimization technique,Differential Evolution(DE),to get a significant decrease in computer processing time required to obtain minimal chi-square(χ2) in four different regions of the parameter space.We demonstrate efficiency for the two-neutrinos case.For this,the χ2 function for neutrino oscillations is evaluated for grids with different density of points in standard allowed regions of the parameter space of m2 and tan 2θ using experimental and theoretical total event rates of chlorine(Homestake),Gallex+GNO,SAGE,Superkamiokande,and SNO detectors.We find that using DE in combination with the grid based method with small density of points can produce the results comparable with the one obtained using high density grid,in much lesser computation time.     

Neutrino anomaly and ν-nucleus interactions

A review of various calculations of the inclusive quasi-elastic reactions and pion production processes in neutrino reactions for various nuclei at intermediate energies relevant to solar, atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos is presented     

中微子质量矩阵和中微子转换矩阵间的一种可能的关系

我们探讨了以ν_e,ν_μ,ν_τ为基的, 具有一种新的对称性的中微子质量矩阵M. 首先在没有T(时间)破坏的前提下, 假定该质量矩阵具有一个简单的三参数形式. 这一矩阵确定了3种中微子的质量m₁, m₂, m₃以及使M对角化的转换矩阵U. 因为无T破坏的U给出3个可测量参数s₁₂, s₂₃, s₁₃, 我们的形式用3个参数表示6个可测量的物理量, 其结果与实验数据符合得很好. 更精确的测量将对模型给出严格的检验, 并确定这3个参数的值. 本文还推广讨论了包含T破坏的情况.     

Neutrino Production via e~-e~+ Collision at Z-Boson Peak

The production of the three normal neutrinos via e-e+ collision at Z-boson peak(neutrino production in a Z-factory) is investigated thoroughly. The differences of νe-pair production from νμ-pair and ντ-pair production are presented in various aspects. Namely the total cross sections, relevant differential cross sections and the forwardbackward asymmetry etc. for these neutrinos are presented in terms of figures as well as numerical tables. The restriction on the room for the mixing of the three species of light neutrinos with possible externals(heavy neutral leptons and/or sterile neutrinos) from refined measurements of the invisible width of Z-boson is discussed.     

Neutrino Production via e-e+ Collision at Z-Boson Peak

The production of the three normal neutrinos via e^-e⁺ collision at Z-boson peak (neutrino production in a Z-factory) is investigated thoroughly. The differences of v_e-pair production from v_μ-pair and v_τ-pair production are presented in various aspects. Namely the total cross sections, relevant differential cross sections and the forward-backward asymmetry etc. for these neutrinos are presented in terms of figures as well as numerical tables. The restriction on the room for the mixing of the three species of light neutrinos with possible externals (heavy neutral leptons and/or sterile neutrinos) from refined measurements of the invisible width of Z-boson is discussed.     

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.     

Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay and Neutrino Mass Spectrum

Implications of the neutrinoless double-beta (₀) decay searches for the neutrino mass and mixing spectrum are discussed. We consider properties of the effective Majorana mass, m _ee, relevant for ₀ decay. We find predictions or limits for m _ee in the three neutrino schemes which explain the atmospheric and solar neutrino data. We show how combined analysis of results from ₀-decay searches, oscillation experiments as well as direct measurements of neutrino mass will allow to identify the spectrum. In this connection, several test equalities which relate m _ee and the oscillation parameters in the context of certain neutrino spectra are suggested. Two issues are important for realization of the identification program: (i) high enough accuracy of determination of m _ee which requires reliable knowledge of the nuclear matrix elements, and (ii) possibility to identify the mechanism of the ₀ decay, in particular, to disentangle the decay due to exchange of the light Majorana neutrino and mechanisms related to exchange of heavy particles with m1/r _nuclei.     

Dirac Neutrino Masses in NCG

Several models in nonocmmutative geometry(NCG) with mild changes to the standard model are introduced to discuss the neutrino mass problem.we use two constraints,Poincare duality and gauge anomaly free,to discuss the possibility of containing right-handed neutrinos in them.Our work shows that no model in this paper,with each generation containing a right-handed neutrino,can satisfy these two constraints at the same time.So,to consist with neutrino oscillation experiment results,maybe fundamental changes to the present version of NCG are usually needed to include Dirac massive neutrinos.     

India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)

We present some physics possibilities with an iron calorimeter detector (ICAL) and a status report on the feasibility study to construct such a detector at a future possible India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). This talk was given at the workshop on high energy physics phenomenology, WHEPP-8, in Jan. 2004, at IIT Bombay.     

Solar neutrino oscillation phenomenology

This article summarises the status of the solar neutrino oscillation phenomenology at the end of 2002 in the light of the SNO and KamLAND results. We first present the allowed areas obtained from global solar analysis and demonstrate the preference of the solar data towards the large-mixing-angle (LMA) MSW solution. A clear confirmation in favour of the LMA solution comes from the KamLAND reactor neutrino data. The KamLAND spectral data in conjunction with the global solar data further narrows down the allowed LMA region and splits it into two allowed zones a low Δm ² region (low-LMA) and high Δm ² region (high-LMA). We demonstrate through a projected analysis that with an exposure of 3 kton-year (kTy) KamLAND can remove this ambiguity.     

Neutrino astronomy: Present and future

I briefly review the present and future status of the burgeoning field of neutrino astronomy. I outline the astrophysics and particle physics goals, design, and performance of the various current and proposed neutrino telescopes. Also described are present results and future expectations.     

Bi-large Neutrino Mixing See-Saw Mass Matrix with Texture Zeros and Leptogenesis

We study constraints on neutrino properties for a class of bi-large mixing See-Saw mass matrices with texture zeros and with the related Dirac neutrino mass matrix to be proportional to a diagonal matrix of the form diag(ε,1,1). Texture zeros may occur in the light (class a) or in the heavy (class b) neutrino mass matrices. Each of these two classes has 5 different forms which can produce non-trivial three generation mixing with at least one texture zero. We find that two types of texture zero mass matrices in both class a and class b can be consistent with present data on neutrino masses and mixing. None of the neutrinos can have zero masses and the lightest of the light neutrinos has a mass larger than about 0.046 eV for class a and 0.0027 eV for class b. In these models although the CKM CP violating phase vanishes, the non-zero Majorana phases can exist and can play an important role in producing the observed baryon asymmetry in our universe through leptogenesis mechanism. The requirement of producing the observed baryon asymmetry can further distinguish different models and also restrict the See-Saw scale to be in the range of 10¹²～10¹⁵ GeV. We also discuss RG effects on V₁₃.     

Neutrino Mixing in the BLMSSM

Abstract In recent years, a nonzero value for the neutrino mixing angle θ13 has been successively measured by the international famous reactor oscillation experiments, which is greater than 5 standard deviations. Our study is in the framework of the MSSM, where baryon and lepton numbers are local gauged symmetries （BLMSSM）. This model can generate three tiny neutrino masses at the tree level through TeV scale seesaw mechanism. In our paper, we analyze the neutrino masses and their corresponding mixing angles with a ＂top-down＂ method, assuming neutrino mass spectrum with normal ordering （NO） and inverted ordering （IO）.