A New Fit to Solar Neutrinos Using Extra Dimensions
| dc.creator | Caldwell, David O. | |
| dc.date | 2001-05-25 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:44:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:44:36Z | |
| dc.description | A neutrino mass-mixing scheme which explains qualitatively all present evidence for neutrino mass (the solar and atmospheric neutrino deficits, LSND, and hot dark matter), and also makes possible heavy-element nucleosynthesis by supernovae, requires at least one light sterile neutrino. String-inspired models with sub-millimeter extra dimensions provide naturally light sterile neutrinos, as is needed to explain the solar nu_e deficit. This bulk sterile neutrino provides a better fit to the solar data than conventional models by having vacuum oscillations of the nu_e to its zero mode and MSW oscillations to its first few Kaluza-Klein modes. While the prediction of the Super-Kamiokande energy spectrum gives a fit probability of 73%, the superior energy resolution of SNO's charged-current spectrum will determine whether this neutrino scheme is correct and can demonstrate that an extra dimension of ~60 mu m exists. Should this be the case, there are important implications for supernovae, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, double beta decay, and dark matter. | |
| dc.description | 14 pages, 2 figures, Invited paper for the 9th International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venice, Italy | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0105275 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0105275 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/40628 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | A New Fit to Solar Neutrinos Using Extra Dimensions | |
| dc.type | text |