Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-05-09
Phys.Rev.D83:113013,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
16 pages, 3 figures; minor changes; matches version published in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.113013
Motivated by the accumulating hints of new sterile neutrino species at the eV scale, we explore the consequences of such an hypothesis on the solar sector phenomenology. After introducing the theoretical formalism needed to describe the MSW conversion of solar neutrinos in the presence of one (or more) sterile neutrino state(s) located "far" from the (nu_1,nu_2) "doublet", we perform a quantitative analysis of the available experimental results, focusing on the electron neutrino mixing. We find that the present data posses a sensitivity to the amplitude of the lepton mixing matrix element U_e4 --- encoding the admixture of the electron neutrino with a new mass eigenstate --- which is comparable to that achieved on the standard matrix element U_e3. In addition, and more importantly, our analysis evidences that, in a 4-flavor framework, the current preference for |U_e3|>0 is indistinguishable from that for |U_e4|>0, having both a similar statistical significance (which is ~ 1.3 sigma adopting the old reactor fluxes determinations, and ~ 1.8 sigma using their new estimates). We also point out that, differently from the standard 3-flavor case, in a 3+1 scheme the Dirac CP-violating phases cannot be eliminated from the description of solar neutrino conversions.
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