Impact of two mass-scale oscillations on the analysis of atmospheric and reactor neutrino data

Details Impact of two mass-scale oscillations on the analysis of atmospheric and reactor neutrino data Impact of two mass-scale oscillations on the analysis of atmospheric and reactor neutrino data

2002-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0202218v3

Eur.Phys.J.C26:417-428,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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Scientific paper

10.1140/epjc/s2002-01064-7

We study the stability of the results of 3-nu oscillation analysis of atmospheric and reactor neutrino data under departures of the one--dominant mass scale approximation. In order to do so we perform the analysis of atmospheric and reactor neutrino data in terms of three--neutrino oscillations where the effect of both mass differences is explicitly considered. We study the allowed parameter space resulting from this analysis as a function of the mass splitting hierarchy parameter alpha = Delta m^2/Delta M^2 which parametrizes the departure from the one--dominant mass scale approximation. We consider schemes with both direct and inverted mass ordering. Our results show that in the analysis of atmospheric data the derived range of the largest mass splitting, Delta M^2$, is stable while the allowed ranges of mixing angles sin^2 theta_{23} and sin^2 theta_{13} are wider than those obtained in the one--dominant mass scale approximation. Inclusion of the CHOOZ reactor data in the analysis results into the reduction of the parameter space in particular for the mixing angles. As a consequence the final allowed ranges of parameters from the combined analysis are only slightly broader than when obtained in the one--dominant mass scale approximation.

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