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Is large mixing angle MSW the solution of the solar neutrino problems
Recent results on solar neutrinos provide hints that the LMA MSW solution could be correct. We perform accurate calculations for potential ‘‘smoking-gun’’ effects of the LMA solution in the SuperKamiokande solar neutrino experiment, including ~1! an almost constant reduction of the standard recoil electron energy spectrum ~with a weak, ,10%, relative increase below 6.5 MeV!, ~2! an integrated difference in day-night rates ~2%‐ 14%!, ~3! an approximately constant zenith-angle dependence of the nighttime event rate, ~4! a new test for the difference in the shape of the equally normalized day-night energy spectra ~;1%!, and ~5! annual variations of the signal due to the regeneration effect ~;6 times smaller than the integrated day-night effect!. We also establish a relation between the integrated day-night asymmetry and the seasonal asymmetry due to LMA regeneration. As a cautionary example, we simulate the effect of an absolute energy calibration error on the shape ~distortion! of the recoil energy spectrum. We compare LMA predictions with the available SuperKamiokande data for 708 days of operation and discuss the possibilities for distinguishing experimentally between LMA and vacuum oscillations. If LMA is correct, global solutions combining data from different types of measurements made by SuperKamiokande or by different solar neutrino experiments could reveal in the next few years a many s indication of neutrino oscillations. @S0556-2821~99!07919-9#
119540272
Self-induced spectral splits in supernova neutrino fluxes
In the dense-neutrino region above the neutrino sphere of a supernova (r < or approx. 400 km), neutrino-neutrino refraction causes collective flavor transformations. They can lead to 'spectral splits' where an energy E{sub split} splits the transformed spectrum sharply into parts of almost pure but different flavors. Unless there is an ordinary MSW resonance in the dense-neutrino region, E{sub split} is determined by flavor-lepton number conservation alone. Spectral splits are created by an adiabatic transition between regions of large and small neutrino density. We solve the equations of motion in the adiabatic limit explicitly and provide analytic expressions for a generic example.
59164737
Recent developments in neutrino phenomenology
The first phase of studies of the neutrino mass and mixing is essentially over. The outcome is the discovery of non-zero neutrino mass and determination of the dominant structure of the lepton mixing matrix. In some sense this phase was very simple, and nature was very collaborative with us: Two main effects - the vacuum oscillations and the adiabatic conversion in matter (the MSW-effect) - provide complete interpretation of the experimental results. Furthermore, with the present accuracy of measurements the $3\nu-$mixing analysis is essentially reduced to the $2\nu$ consideration. I will present a concise and comprehensive description of this first phase. The topics include: (i) the concept of neutrino mixing in vacuum and matter; (ii) physics of the oscillations and adiabatic conversion; (iii) the experimental evidences of the flavor transformations and determination of the oscillation parameters. Some implications of the obtained results are discussed. Comments are given on the next phase of the field that will be much more involved.
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Solar neutrinos: Theoretical aspects
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Multiple spectral splits of supernova neutrinos.
Collective oscillations of supernova neutrinos swap the spectra f(nu(e))(E) and f(nu[over ](e))(E) with those of another flavor in certain energy intervals bounded by sharp spectral splits. This phenomenon is far more general than previously appreciated: typically one finds one or more swaps and accompanying splits in the nu and nu[over ] channels for both inverted and normal neutrino mass hierarchies. Depending on an instability condition, swaps develop around spectral crossings (energies where f(nu(e))=f(nu(x)), f(nu[over ](e))=f(nu[over ](x)) as well as E-->infinity where all fluxes vanish), and the widths of swaps are determined by the spectra and fluxes. Washout by multiangle decoherence varies across the spectrum and splits can survive as sharp spectral features.
18492548
Pontecorvo's original oscillations revisited
Abstract We show that a left-handed neutrino ν L can oscillate into its CPT -conjugate state ν R with maximal amplitude, in direct analogy with K 0 − K 0 oscillations. Peculiarities of such oscillations under different conditions are studied.
118565164
Cross Section and Forward-Backward Asymmetry of $t\bar{t}$ Production in the Model with Four Color Symmetry
The contributions to the cross section $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ and to the forward-backward asymmetry $A_{\rm FB}^{t \bar t}$ of $t\bar{t}$ production at the Tevatron from $Z'$-boson and scalar leptoquarks $S^{(\pm)}_a$ and scalar gluons $F_a$ predicted by the minimal model with four color quark-lepton symmetry are calculated. These contributions are shown to be small in tree approximation and can be significant with account of the 1-loop $gt\bar{t}$ effective vertex induced by the scalar doublets. The lower mass limit for scalar gluons $m_F \gtrsim 320\, GeV$ from the Tevatron data is obtained and it is shown that for $m_{F_1}\lesssim 990\,GeV$ the scalar gluon $F_1$ can be evident at LHC at the significance not less that $3\sigma$ (for $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV, $L=10\,fb^{-1}$).
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Production of colored scalar particles in pp collisions and masses of scalar gluons from future LHC data
AbstractThe production of pairs of scalar particles belonging to an arbitrary color multiplet of the SUc(3) group in proton-proton collisions is considered, and the differential and total cross sections for the corresponding partonic processes are obtained. The total cross section for the production of octets of scalar gluons F1 and F2 at LHC is calculated versus their mass, and their dominant decays, which are necessary for their searches, are discussed. It is shown that, for mF1 ≲ 1000 GeV, the number of signal $$
t\tilde tb\tilde b
$$ events fromthe decays of the scalar gluon F1 may exceed substantially (by not less than three standard deviations) the Standart Model background and that the cross section for the production of scalar gluons F1 and F2 having masses in the region mF1,mF2 ≲ 1300 GeV may be sufficient for the efficient (Nevents ≲ 100–1000 at L = 10–100 fb−1) production of these particles at LHC.
118529983
ON MASS LIMIT FOR CHIRAL COLOR SYMMETRY G'-BOSON FROM TEVATRON DATA ON $t\bar t$ PRODUCTION
The contributions of G'-boson predicted by the chiral color symmetry of quarks to the cross section $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ and to the forward–backward asymmetry $A_{{\rm FB}}^{p \bar p}$ of $t\bar{t}$ production at the Tevatron are calculated with account of the difference of the strengths of the $\bar q q G$ and $\bar q q G^\prime$ interactions. The results are analyzed in dependence on two free parameters of the model, the mixing angle θG and G' mass mG'. The G'-boson contributions to $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ and $A_{{\rm FB}}^{p \bar p}$ are shown to be consistent with the Tevatron data on $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ and $A_{{\rm FB}}^{p \bar p}$, the allowed region in the mG' - θG plane is discussed and around mG' = 1.2 TeV, θG = 14° the region of 1σ consistency is found.
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THE CHIRAL COLOR SYMMETRY OF QUARKS AND G′-BOSON CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHARGE ASYMMETRY IN $t \bar t$-PRODUCTION AT THE LHC AND TEVATRON
The contributions of G′-boson predicted by the chiral color symmetry of quarks to the charge asymmetry in -production at the LHC and to the forward–backward asymmetry in -production at the Tevatron are calculated and analyzed in dependence on two free parameters of the model, the G′ mass mG′ and mixing angle θG. The mG′ - θG regions of 1 σ consistency with the CMS data on the cross-section and on the charge asymmetry are found and compared with those resulted from the CDF data on the cross-section and on the forward–backward asymmetry of -production at the Tevatron with account of the current SM predictions for .
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ON A POSSIBLE MANIFESTATION OF THE FOUR-COLOR SYMMETRY Z' BOSON IN μ+μ- EVENTS AT THE LHC
The cross section of the μ+μ- pair production in pp-collisions at the LHC is calculated with account of the Z' boson induced by the minimal four-color quark–lepton symmetry (MQLS). The μ+μ- invariant mass spectrum with account of the MQLS Z' boson is analyzed in dependence on the Z' mass. The mass region for the MQLS Z' boson observable at the LHC is found in dependence on the significance and on the integrated luminosity.