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Title: 
Probing the LSND mass scale and four neutrino scenarios with a neutrino telescope
Author(s): 
Institution: 
  • Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
  • University of California
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
  • Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
ISSN: 
0370-2693
Abstract: 
We show in this Letter that the observation of the angular distribution of upward-going muons and cascade events induced by atmospheric neutrinos at the TeV energy scale which can be performed by a kilometer-scale neutrino telescope, such as the IceCube detector, can be used to probe a large neutrino mass splitting, |Δm 2| ∼ (0.5-2.0) eV 2, implied by the LSND experiment and discriminate among four neutrino mass schemes. This is due to the fact that such a large mass scale can promote non-negligible v μ → v e, v τ/v μ → v e, v τ conversions at these energies by the MSW effect as well as vacuum oscillation, unlike what is expected if all the neutrino mass splittings are small. © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Issue Date: 
12-Jun-2003
Citation: 
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 562, n. 3-4, p. 279-290, 2003.
Time Duration: 
279-290
Keywords: 
  • atmosphere
  • atomic particle
  • energy
  • mass
  • oscillation
  • physics
  • vacuum
Source: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00603-8
URI: 
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Type: 
outro
Source:
http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/67318
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