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Reviving the energy independent suppression of the solar neutrino flux

dc.contributor.authorChoubey, Sandhya
dc.contributor.authorGoswami, Srubabati
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Nayantara
dc.contributor.authorRoy, D.P.
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-07T10:35:38Z
dc.date.available2012-05-07T10:35:38Z
dc.date.issued2001-09
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en
dc.description.abstractWe explore the possibility of an energy independent suppression of the solar neutrino flux in the context of the recent SuperKamiokande data. From a global analysis of the rate and spectrum data, this scenario is allowed at only 14% probability with the observed Cl rate. If we allow for a 20% upward renormalization of the Cl rate along with a downward renormalization of the B neutrino flux then the fit improves considerably to a probability of ~50%. We compare the quality of these fits with those of the MSW solutions. These renormalizations are also found to improve the quality of the fits with MSW solutions and enlarge the allowed region of their validity in the parameter space substantially. Over much of this enlarged region the matter effects on the suppression of the solar neutrino flux are found to be very weak, so that the solutions become practically energy independent.en
dc.identifier.citationPhysical Review D, 2001, Vol.64, p053002en
dc.identifier.issn1550-7998
dc.identifier.issn1550-2368 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/4459
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherThe American Physical Societyen
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001PhRvD..64e3002Cen
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0103318en
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/ 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.053002en
dc.rights2001 The American Physical Societyen
dc.subjectNeutrino mass and mixingen
dc.subjectDecays of heavy neutrinosen
dc.subjectSolar neutrinosen
dc.titleReviving the energy independent suppression of the solar neutrino fluxen
dc.typeArticleen

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