Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10722297 | Physics Letters B | 2012 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Reactor neutrino experiments have now observed a nonzero value for θ13 at 5Ï, and global fits to data imply a nonzero value above 10Ï. Nonzero values for θ13 and/or θ32âÏ4 break a νμ-Î½Ï symmetry, which has qualitative as well as quantitative implications for the time-evolution of neutrino flavors. In particular, the large-distance flavor evolution matrix, non-invertible with νμ-Î½Ï symmetry, is now invertible. This means that measurements of neutrino flavor ratios at Earth can now be inverted to directly reveal the flavor ratios injected at cosmically distant sources. With the updated values of the three neutrino mixing angles, we obtain the inverted large-distance evolution matrix and use it to derive several phenomenological relations between the injection flavor ratios and the observable ratios at Earth. Taking the three popular injection models as examples, we also exhibit the shift of Earthly observed flavor ratios from the corresponding values in the case with νμ-Î½Ï symmetry.
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Authors
Lingjun Fu, Chiu Man Ho, Thomas J. Weiler,