We present an up-to-date global analysis of solar, atmospheric, reactor, and accelerator neutrino data in the framework of three-neutrino oscillations. We provide results on the determination of theta_13 from global data and discuss the dependence on the choice of reactor fluxes. We study in detail the statistical significance of a possible deviation of theta_23 from maximal mixing, the determination of its octant, the ordering of the mass states, and the sensitivity to the CP violating phase, and discuss the role of various complementary data sets in those respects
The IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole has measured the atmospheric
muon neutrino spectrum as a function of zenith angle and energy in the
approximate 320 GeV to 20 TeV range, to search for the oscillation signatures
of light sterile neutrinos. No evidence for anomalous $\nu_\mu$ or
$\bar{\nu}_\mu$ disappearance is observed in either of two independently
developed analyses, each using one year of atmospheric neutrino data. New
exclusion limits are placed on the parameter space of the 3+1 model, in which
muon antineutrinos would experience a strong MSW-resonant oscillation. The
exclusion limits extend to $\mathrm{sin}^2 2\theta_{24} \leq$ 0.02 at $\Delta
m^2 \sim$ 0.3 $\mathrm{eV}^2$ at the 90\% confidence level. The allowed region
from global analysis of appearance experiments, including LSND and MiniBooNE,
is excluded at approximately the 99\% confidence level for the global best fit
value of $|$U$_{e4}|^2$.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
We quantify our present knowledge of the size and flavor structure of nonstandard neutrino interactions which affect the matter background in the evolution of solar, atmospheric, reactor and long-baseline accelerator neutrinos as determined by a global analysis of oscillation data -both alone and in combination with the results on coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering from the COHERENT experiment. We consider general neutral current neutrino interactions with quarks whose lepton-flavor structure is independent of the quark type. We study the dependence of the allowed ranges of non-standard interaction coefficients, the status of the LMA-D solution, and the determination of the oscillation parameters on the relative strength of the non-standard couplings to up and down quarks. Generically we find that the conclusions are robust for a broad spectrum of up-to-down strengths, and we identify and quantify the exceptional cases related to couplings whose effect in neutrino propagation in the Earth or in the Sun is severely suppressed. As a result of the study we provide explicit constraints on the effective couplings which parametrize the non-standard Earth matter potential relevant for long-baseline experiments.
Abstract:We revisit the production of baryon asymmetries in the minimal type I seesaw model with heavy Majorana singlets in the GeV range. In particular we include "washout" effects from scattering processes with gauge bosons, Higgs decays and inverse decays, besides the dominant top scatterings. We show that in the minimal model with two singlets, and for an inverted light neutrino ordering, future measurements from SHiP and neutrinoless double beta decay could in principle provide sufficient information to predict the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. We also show that SHiP measurements could provide very valuable information on the PMNS CP phases.
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