TY - JOUR
T1 - "Just so" neutrino oscillations
AU - Glashow, Sheldon L.
AU - Krauss, Lawrence M.
N1 - Funding Information:
1 Research supported in part by NSF Grant #PHY-82-15249.
Funding Information:
3 Research supported in part by DOE Contract #DE-AC02-76ER0 3075, and also in part by a Presidential Young Inves-tigator Award.
PY - 1987/5/21
Y1 - 1987/5/21
N2 - We examine in detail the possibility that the low rates observed in the chlorine solar neutrino experiment are due to vacuum oscillations between just two neutrino species - a possibility which remains viable over a finite mass range. We calculate the expected signals, seasonal variations, and effects of time-averaging for both chlorine and gallium based solar neutrino detectors. These provide unique signals for such oscillations, and thus also allow them to be distinguished from the recently proposed resonant neutrino conversion process, as well as from other possible causes of the observed suppression. Finally we display several striking signatures of oscillations relevant to future experiments which may be sensitive to the incident neutrino energy spectrum.
AB - We examine in detail the possibility that the low rates observed in the chlorine solar neutrino experiment are due to vacuum oscillations between just two neutrino species - a possibility which remains viable over a finite mass range. We calculate the expected signals, seasonal variations, and effects of time-averaging for both chlorine and gallium based solar neutrino detectors. These provide unique signals for such oscillations, and thus also allow them to be distinguished from the recently proposed resonant neutrino conversion process, as well as from other possible causes of the observed suppression. Finally we display several striking signatures of oscillations relevant to future experiments which may be sensitive to the incident neutrino energy spectrum.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90867-7
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90867-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:25744439763
VL - 190
SP - 199
EP - 207
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 1-2
ER -