Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992phr...211..167p&link_type=abstract
Physics Reports, Volume 211, Issue 4, p. 167-199.
Physics
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Scientific paper
The physics of the proposed solution to the solar neutrino puzzle based on the neutrino magnetic moment is reviewed. The magnetic moment transition mechanism from active to sterile neutrinos can be either resonant or non-resonant and its kinship to matter enhanced oscillations is shown. The transition probability in the adiabatic approximation is calculated and the limits to adiabaticity are discussed. The full probability incorporating both the adiabatic and non-adiabatic regimes is derived using the Landau-Zener approximation for the non-adiabatic regimes. The available experimental data from the three existing solar neutrino experiments (Davis, Kamiokande II and SAGE) are compared with the results of the theory. From this comparison one can predict for the flavour square mass difference Δ2m21 = (0.5-1.5) x 10-8eV2 and for the magnetic moment μ > (6-7) × 10-12 μB. The uncertainties in the solar magnetic field are considerable and the ansatz used takes a value of 10 5 G along the solar core and the radiation zone, decreasing then linearly along the convection zone. A change in B by one or two orders of magnitude has the main effect of modifying the lower bound on μ by the same proportion, while leaving Δ2m21 practically unaltered. An anticorrelation between neutrino flux and solar activity, although consistent with the theory, cannot be clearly predicted.
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