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Villaescusa-Navarro, F.; Vogelsberger, M.; Viel, M.; Loeb, A. |
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Neutrino signatures on the high-transmission regions of the Lyman alpha forest |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2013 |
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Abbreviated Journal |
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. |
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431 |
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4 |
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3670-3677 |
| Keywords |
neutrinos; intergalactic medium; quasars: absorption lines; cosmology: theory; large-scale structure of Universe |
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We quantify the impact of massive neutrinos on the statistics of low-density regions in the intergalactic medium as probed by the Lyman alpha forest at redshifts z = 2.2-4. Based on mock but realistic quasar (QSO) spectra extracted from hydrodynamic simulations with cold dark matter, baryons and neutrinos, we find that the probability distribution of weak Lyman alpha absorption features, as sampled by Lyman alpha flux regions at high transmissivity, is strongly affected by the presence of massive neutrinos. We show that systematic errors affecting the Lyman alpha forest reduce but do not erase the neutrino signal. Using the Fisher matrix formalism, we conclude that the sum of the neutrino masses can be measured, using the method proposed in this paper, with a precision smaller than 0.4 eV using a catalogue of 200 high-resolution (signal-to-noise ratio similar to 100) QSO spectra. This number reduces to 0.27 eV by making use of reasonable priors in the other parameters that also affect the statistics of the high-transitivity regions of the Lyman alpha forest. The constraints obtained with this method can be combined with independent bounds from the cosmic microwave background, large-scale structures and measurements of the matter power spectrum from the Lyman alpha forest to produce tighter upper limits on the sum of the masses of the neutrinos. |
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Univ Valencia, IFIC, CSIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: viel@oats.inaf.it |
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Oxford Univ Press |
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0035-8711 |
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WOS:000319479000057 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1458 |
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Tortola, M. |
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Status of three-neutrino oscillation parameters |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2013 |
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Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Fortschritte Phys.-Prog. Phys. |
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61 |
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4-5 |
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427-440 |
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Neutrino mass and mixing; neutrino oscillations; solar and atmospheric neutrinos; reactor and accelerator neutrinos |
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Here we review the current status of global fits to neutrino oscillation data within the three-flavour framework. In our analysis we include the most recent data from solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments as well as the latest results from the long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments and the recent measurements of reactor neutrino disappearance reported by Double Chooz, Daya Bay and RENO. We present updated determinations for the two neutrino mass splittings and the three mixing angles responsible for neutrino oscillations that, for the first time, have all been measured with 1 sigma accuracies ranging from 3 to 15%. A weak sensitivity for the CP violating phase is also reported from the global analysis. |
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Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, CSIC, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: mariam@ific.uv.es |
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Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh |
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0015-8208 |
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WOS:000317019900005 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1411 |
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Bonnet, F.; Hirsch, M.; Ota, T.; Winter, W. |
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Systematic decomposition of the neutrinoless double beta decay operator |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2013 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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03 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
055 - 34pp |
| Keywords |
Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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We discuss the systematic decomposition of the dimension nine neutrinoless double beta decay operator, focusing on mechanisms with potentially small contributions to neutrino mass, while being accessible at the LHC. We first provide a (d = 9 tree-level) complete list of diagrams for neutrinoless double beta decay. From this list one can easily recover all previously discussed contributions to the neutrinoless double beta decay process, such as the celebrated mass mechanism or “exotics”, such as contributions from left-right symmetric models, R-parity violating supersymmetry and leptoquarks. More interestingly, however, we identify a number of new possibilities which have not been discussed in the literature previously. Contact to earlier works based on a general Lorentz-invariant parametrisation of the neutrinoless double beta decay rate is made, which allows, in principle, to derive limits on all possible contributions. We furthermore discuss possible signals at the LHC for mediators leading to the short-range part of the amplitude with one specific example. The study of such contributions would gain particular importance if there were a tension between different measurements of neutrino mass such as coming from neutrinoless double beta decay and cosmology or single beta decay. |
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Univ Wurzburg, Inst Theoret Phys & Astrophys, D-97074 Wurzburg, Germany, Email: florian.bonnet@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000317521200055 |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1416 |
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Abada, A.; De Romeri, V.; Lucente, M.; Teixeira, A.M.; Toma, T. |
| Title |
Effective Majorana mass matrix from tau and pseudoscalar meson lepton number violating decays |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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02 |
Issue |
2 |
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169 - 57pp |
| Keywords |
Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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An observation of any lepton number violating process will undoubtedly point towards the existence of new physics and indirectly to the clear Majorana nature of the exchanged fermion. In this work, we explore the potential of a minimal extension of the Standard Model via heavy sterile fermions with masses in the [0.1-10] GeV range concerning an extensive array of “neutrinoless” meson and tau decay processes. We assume that the Majorana neutrinos are produced on-shell, and focus on three-body decays. We conduct an update on the bounds on the active-sterile mixing elements, vertical bar U-l alpha 4,U-l beta 4 vertical bar, taking into account the most recent experimental bounds (and constraints) and new theoretical inputs, as well as the effects of a finite detector, imposing that the heavy neutrino decay within the detector. This allows to establish up-to-date comprehensive constraints on the sterile fermion parameter space. Our results suggest that the branching fractions of several decays are close to current sensitivities (likely within reach of future facilities), some being already in conflict with current data (as is the case of K-broken vertical bar -> l(alpha)(broken vertical bar)+l(beta)(+)pi(-), and tau(-)->mu(broken vertical bar)pi(-)pi(-)). We use these processes to extract constraints on all entries of an enlarged definition of a 3 x 3 “effective” Majorana neutrino mass matrix m(v)(alpha beta). |
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[Abada, Asmaa] Univ Paris Saclay, Univ Paris Sud, CNRS, Lab Phys Theor, 15 Rue Georges Clemenceau, F-91405 Orsay, France, Email: abada@th.u-psud.fr; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000426478100001 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3511 |
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Abbar, S.; Capozzi, F. |
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Suppression of fast neutrino flavor conversions occurring at large distances in core-collapse supernovae |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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03 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
051 - 13pp |
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supernova neutrinos; core-collapse supernovae; neutrino astronomy; supernovas |
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Neutrinos propagating in dense neutrino media such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star merger remnants can experience the so-called fast flavor conversions on scales much shorter than those expected in vacuum. A very generic class of fast flavor instabilities is the ones which are produced by the backward scattering of neutrinos off the nuclei at relatively large distances from the supernova core. In this study we demonstrate that despite their ubiquity, such fast instabilities are unlikely to cause significant flavor conversions if the population of neutrinos in the backward direction is not large enough. Indeed, the scattering-induced instabilities can mostly impact the neutrinos traveling in the backward direction, which represent only a small fraction of neutrinos at large radii. We show that this can be explained by the shape of the unstable flavor eigenstates, which can be extremely peaked at the backward angles. |
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[Abbar, Sajad] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, Werner Heisenberg Inst, Fohringer Ring 6, D-80805 Munich, Germany, Email: abbar@mpp.mpg.de; |
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IOP Publishing Ltd |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000776551600002 |
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no |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5186 |
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