Large extra dimensions, sterile neutrinos and solar neutrino data
Oct, 200012 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 041601
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0010353 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- UCSB-HEP-00-05,
- UMD-PP-01-020
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Abstract:
A desirable feature of models with large extra dimensions is that they lead to naturally light sterile neutrinos in the process of giving small mass to the known neutrinos. We show that extending the brane physics to make the neutrinos of Majorana type can not only accomodate all known indications of neutrino oscillations (e.g. solar, atmospheric and LSND), but also provide a novel way to understand the solar neutrino data by a combination of vacuum and MSW oscillations involving the bulk sterile neutrinos.- neutrino: sterile
- neutrino: solar
- neutrino: Majorana
- neutrino: oscillation
- resonance: oscillation
- MSW effect
- Kaluza-Klein model
- space-time: higher-dimensional
- membrane model
- neutrino: energy spectrum
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