Solar Neutrinos and the Principle of Equivalence

Details Solar Neutrinos and the Principle of Equivalence Solar Neutrinos and the Principle of Equivalence

1994-10-23

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9410353v1

Phys.Rev.D52:1770-1779,1995

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

20 pages + 4 figures, IASSNS-AST 94/54

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.52.1770

We study the proposed solution of the solar neutrino problem which requires a flavor nondiagonal coupling of neutrinos to gravity. We adopt a phenomenological point of view and investigate the consequences of the hypothesis that the neutrino weak interaction eigenstates are linear combinations of the gravitational eigenstates which have slightly different couplings to gravity, $f_1G$ and $f_2G$, $|f_1-f_2| << 1$, corresponding to a difference in red-shift between electron and muon neutrinos, $\Delta z/(1+z) \sim |f_1 - f_2|$. We perform a $\chi^2$ analysis of the latest available solar neutrino data and obtain the allowed regions in the space of the relevant parameters. The existing data rule out most of the parameter space which can be probed in solar neutrino experiments, allowing only $|f_1 - f_2| \sim 3 \times 10^{-14}$ for small values of the mixing angle ($2 \times 10^{-3} \le \sin^2(2\theta_G) \le 10^{-2}$) and $10^{-16} \stackrel{<}{\sim} |f_1 - f_2| \stackrel{<}{\sim}10^{-15}$ for large mixing ($0.6 \le \sin^2(2\theta_G) \le 0.9$). Measurements of the $^8{\rm B}$-neutrino energy spectrum in the SNO and Super-Kamiokande experiments will provide stronger constraints independent of all considerations related to solar models. We show that these measurements will be able to exclude part of the allowed region as well as to distinguish between conventional oscillations and oscillations due to the violation of the equivalence principle.

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