Sterile neutrinos after the first MiniBooNE results

dc.creatorMaltoni, Michele
dc.date2007-11-13
dc.date2007-12-04
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dc.descriptionIn view of the recent results from the MiniBooNE experiment we revisit the global neutrino oscillation fit to short-baseline neutrino data by adding one, two or three sterile neutrinos with eV-scale masses to the three Standard Model neutrinos. We find that four-neutrino oscillations of the (3+1) type, which have been only marginally allowed before the recent MiniBooNE results, become even more disfavored with the new data. In the framework of so-called (3+2) five-neutrino mass schemes the MiniBooNE results can be nicely reconciled with the LSND appearance evidence thanks to the possibility of CP violation available in such oscillation schemes; however, the tension between appearance and disappearance experiments represents a serious problem in (3+2) schemes, so that these models are ultimately not viable. This tension remains also when a third sterile neutrino is added, and we do not find a significant improvement of the global fit in a (3+3) scheme.
dc.description5 pages, LaTeX file using jpconf style, 3 figures included. Proceedings of "The 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics", Manchester, England, July 19-25, 2007. Typos corrected
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2018
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2018
dc.identifierJ.Phys.Conf.Ser.110:082011,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1742-6596/110/8/082011
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/199652
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleSterile neutrinos after the first MiniBooNE results
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