Neutrino oscillations: A Global analysis

Fogli, G. L.; Marrone, A.; Montanino, D.; Lisi, E.; Palazzo, A.; Rotunno, A. M.

Report/Contribution to a conference proceedings

PUBDB-2016-03511

Neutrino oscillations: A Global analysis

Fogli, G. L. ; Lisi, E. ; Marrone, A. ; Montanino, D. (Corresponding author) ; Palazzo, A. ; Rotunno, A. M.

2003

23rd International Conference on Physics in Collision, PIC 2003, Zeuthen, Germany, 26 Jun 2003 - 28 Jun 2003 49-64 (2003)

Report No.: PIC-2003-THAT05; hep-ph/0310012

Abstract: We review the status of the neutrino oscillation physics (as of June 2003), with a particular emphasis on the present knowledge of the neutrino mass-mixing parameters in a three generation approach. We consider first the nu_mu-->nu_tau flavor transitions of atmospheric neutrinos. It is found that standard oscillations provide the best description of the SK+K2K data, and that the associated mass-mixing parameters are determined at 1 sigma (and dof=1) as: Delta m^2=(2.6 +-0.4) x 10^-3 eV^2 and sin^2(2theta)=1.00+0.00-0.05. Such indications, presently dominated by SK, could be strengthened by further K2K data. Then we analyze the energy spectrum of reactor neutrino events recently observed at KamLAND and combine them with solar and terrestrial neutrino data. We find that the solution to the solar neutrino problem at large mixing angle (LMA) is basically split into two sub-regions, that we denote as LMA-I and LMA-II. The LMA-I solution, characterized by lower values of the squared neutrino mass gap, is favored by the global data fit. Finally, we briefly illustrate how prospective data from the SNO and KamLAND can increase our confidence in the occurrence of standard matter effects in the Sun, which are starting to emerge from current data.

Keyword(s): talk: Zeuthen 2003/06/26 ; review ; neutrino: oscillation ; neutrino: mass ; neutrino: mixing angle ; neutrino: flavor ; flavor: 2 ; flavor: 3 ; neutrino: cosmic radiation ; neutrino: solar ; neutrino: particle source ; neutrino: mass difference ; model: solar ; matter: effect ; statistical analysis ; numerical calculations: interpretation of experiments ; bibliography