Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-07-24
Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 013005; Erratum-ibid. D64 (2001) 119902
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
35 pages, 14 png figures: good quality postscript figures can be found in http://neutrinos.if.usp.br/gefan/papers/publicados/p
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.119902
We investigate the current status of the long-wavelength vacuum oscillation solution to the solar neutrino problem and to what extent the presence of a third neutrino can affect and modify it. Assuming that the smaller mass squared difference that can induce such oscillations, $\Delta m^2_{12}$, is in the range $10^{-11}-10^{-8}$ eV$^2$ and the larger one, $\Delta m^2_{23}$, in the range relevant to atmospheric neutrino observations, we analyze the most recent solar neutrino data coming from Homestake, SAGE, GALLEX, GNO and Super-Kamiokande experiments in the context of three neutrino generations. We include in our vacuum oscillation analysis the MSW effect in the Sun, which is relevant for some of the parameter space scrutinized. We have also performed, as an extreme exercise, the fit without Homestake data. % While we found that the MSW effect basically does not affect the best fitted parameters, it significantly modifies the allowed parameter space for $\Delta m^2_{12}$ larger than $\sim 3 \times 10^{-10}$ eV$^2$, in good agreement with the result obtained by A. Friedland in the case of two generations. % Although the presence of a third neutrino does not essentially improve the quality of the fit, the solar neutrino data alone can give an upper bound on $\theta_{13}$, which is constrained to be less than $\sim 60^\circ$ at 95 % C.L.
Funchal Renata Zukanovich
Gago Alberto M.
Nunokawa Hiroshi
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