Status of four-neutrino mass schemes: a global and unified approach to current neutrino oscillation data

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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32 pages, 8 Figures included, REVTeX4.Improved discussion in sec. XI, references added, version accepted by Phys. Rev. D

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10.1103/PhysRevD.65.093004

We present a unified global analysis of neutrino oscillation data within the framework of the four-neutrino mass schemes (3+1) and (2+2). We include all data from solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, as well as information from short-baseline experiments including LSND. If we combine only solar and atmospheric neutrino data, (3+1) schemes are clearly preferred, whereas short-baseline data in combination with atmospheric data prefers (2+2) models. When combining all data in a global analysis the (3+1) mass scheme gives a slightly better fit than the (2+2) case, though all four-neutrino schemes are presently acceptable. The LSND result disfavors the three-active neutrino scenario with only $\Delta m^2_{sol}$ and $\Delta m^2_{atm}$ at 99.9% CL with respect to the four-neutrino best fit model. We perform a detailed analysis of the goodness of fit to identify which sub-set of the data is in disagreement with the best fit solution in a given mass scheme.

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