Interpreting the LSND anomaly: Sterile neutrinos or CPT violation or...?

Jan, 2002
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 539 (2002) 91-101
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IFUP-TH-2002-3,
  • CERN-TH-2002-3

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We first study how sterile neutrinos can fit the 5 σ ν ̄ μ → ν ̄ e LSND anomaly: 2+2 solutions are strongly disfavoured by solar and atmospheric data, while 3+1 solutions can still give a poor fit (for a specific range of oscillation parameters, to be tested by MiniBooNE). If MiniBooNE will see no ν μ → ν e transitions, we will have a hint for CPT violation. Already now, unlike sterile neutrinos, CPT-violating neutrino masses can accommodate all safe and unsafe data. We study how much CPT must be conserved according to atmospheric and K2K data and list which CPT-violating signals could be discovered by forthcoming solar and long-baseline experiments.
Note:
  • 12 pages. Version 2: update about SNO. Version 3: addendum about KamLAND. Version 4: addendum at pages 11,12 discussing how much the recent WMAP data disfavour the 3+1 sterile solution
  • neutrino: sterile
  • antineutrino: oscillation
  • antineutrino/e
  • antineutrino/mu
  • violation: CPT
  • neutrino: mass
  • neutrino: cosmic radiation
  • numerical calculations: interpretation of experiments