Neutrino decay confronts the SNO data

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2002-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204173v2

Phys.Lett.B555:33-42,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, LaTex. Updated with the full SNO day-night spectrum data

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00044-3

We investigate the status of the neutrino decay solution to the solar neutrino problem in the context of the recent results from Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). We present the results of global $\chi^2$-analysis for both two and three generation cases with one of the mass states being allowed to decay and include the effect of both decay and mixing. We find that the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) region which is the currently favoured solution of the solar neutrino problem is affected significantly by decay. We present the allowed areas in the $\Delta m^2-\tan^2\theta$ plane for different allowed values of $\alpha$ and examine how these areas change with the inclusion of decay. We obtain bounds on the decay constant $\alpha$ in this region which implies a rest frame life time $\tau_0/m_{2} > 8.7 \times 10^{-5}$ sec/eV for the unstable neutrino state. We conclude that the arrival of the neutral current results from SNO further disfavors the neutrino decay solution to the solar neutrino problem leaving a very small window for the decay constant $\alpha$ which could still be allowed.

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