Energy-dependent solar neutrino flux depletion in the exact parity model and implications for SNO, SuperKamiokande, and BOREXINO

Raymond R. Volkas and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong
Phys. Rev. D 58, 113001 – Published 20 October 1998
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Abstract

Energy-dependent solar neutrino flux reduction caused by the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) effect is applied to the exact parity model. Several scenarios are possible, depending on the region of parameter space chosen. The interplay between intergenerational MSW transitions and vacuum “intragenerational” ordinary-mirror neutrino oscillations is discussed. Expectations for the ratio of charged to neutral current event rates at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) are estimated. The implications of the various scenarios for the boron neutrino energy spectrum and BOREXINO are briefly discussed. The consequences of MSW-induced solar neutrino depletion within the exact parity model differ in interesting ways from the standard νeνμ,τ and νeνs cases. The physical causes of these differences are determined.

  • Received 26 March 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.113001

©1998 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Raymond R. Volkas* and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

  • School of Physics, Research Centre for High Energy Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052 Australia

  • *Email address: r.volkas@physics.unimelb.edu.au
  • Email address: ywong@physics.unimelb.edu.au

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Vol. 58, Iss. 11 — 1 December 1998

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