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中微子望远镜大气中微子数据中不育粒子的特征

Signature of sterile species in atmospheric neutrino data at neutrino telescopes

Sandhya Choubey

摘要:

MiniBooNE的结果仍然不能全面排除LSND实验的振荡解释。到目前为止,能量在MeV范围内的所谓短基线实验和几米的基线一直在探测无菌中微子的存在。我们展示了如何在TeV能量范围内的大气中微子旅行数千公里的距离,这些额外的无菌状态的签名可以获得。TeV范围内的大气中微子将被即将到来的中微子望远镜探测到。当然,这些中微子的真空振荡会非常小。然而,我们表明,地球内部的共振物质效应可以将这些非常微小的振荡增强为接近最大的转变,这应该很难错过。我们表明,在这个高能量的大气中微子事件样本中,可以明确地获得不育中微子的印记。中微子望远镜不仅可以分辨出无菌中微子的存在,还可以区分不同的可能质量和混合情况,以及额外的无菌状态。

英文摘要:

The MiniBooNE results have still not been able to comprehensively rule out the oscillation interpretation of the LSND experiment. So far the so-called short baseline experiments with energy in the MeV range and baseline of few meters have been probing the existence of sterile neutrinos. We show how signatures of these extra sterile states could be obtained in TeV energy range atmospheric neutrinos travelling distances of thousands of kilometers. Atmospheric neutrinos in the TeV range would be detected by the upcoming neutrino telescopes. Of course vacuum oscillations of these neutrinos would be very small. However, we show that resonant matter effects inside the Earth could enhance these very tiny oscillations into near-maximal transitions, which should be hard to miss. We show that imprint of sterile neutrinos could be unambiguously obtained in this high energy atmospheric neutrino event sample. Not only would neutrino telescopes tell the presence of sterile neutrinos, it should also be possible for them to distinguish between the different possible mass and mixing scenarios with additional sterile states.

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