Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-02-22
Phys.Rev.D64:073001,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, contains updated SuperK results and references
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.073001
String inspired models with millimeter scale extra dimensions provide a natural way to understand an ultralight sterile neutrino needed for a simultaneous explanation of the solar, atmospheric and LSND neutrino oscillation results. The sterile neutrino is the bulk neutrino ($\nu_B$) postulated to exist in these models, and it becomes ultralight in theories that prevent the appearance of its direct mass terms. Its Kaluza-Klein (KK) states then add new oscillation channels for the electron neutrino emitted from the solar core. We show that successive MSW transitions of solar $\nu_e$ to the lower lying KK modes of $\nu_B$ in conjunction with vacuum oscillations between the $\nu_e$ and the zero mode of $\nu_B$ provide a new way to fit the solar neutrino data. Using just the average rates from the three types of solar experiments, we predict the Super-Kamiokande spectrum with 73\% probability, but dips characteristic of the 0.06 mm extra dimension should be seen in the SNO spectrum. We discuss both intermediate and low string scale models where the desired phenomenology can emerge naturally.
Caldwell David O.
Mohapatra Rabindra N.
Yellin S.
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