Solar Mass-Varying Neutrino Oscillations

2005/02/28 by V. Barger, Patrick Huber, Danny Marfatia · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Measurements of neutrino speed #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino oscillation #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Solar neutrino #Solar neutrino problem #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.211802

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.95:211802,2005 · 4 pages, 3 figures. Version to appear in PRL

arxiv created 2005/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2005/11/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We propose that the solar neutrino deficit may be due to oscillations of mass-varying neutrinos (MaVaNs). This scenario elucidates solar neutrino data beautifully while remaining comfortably compatible with atmospheric neutrino and K2K data and with reactor antineutrino data at short and long baselines (from CHOOZ and KamLAND). We find that the survival probability of solar MaVaNs is independent of how the suppression of neutrino mass caused by the acceleron-matter couplings varies with density. Measurements of MeV and lower energy solar neutrinos will provide a rigorous test of the idea.

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