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Fogli, G.L.; Lisi, E.; Palazzo, A.; Rotunno, A.M. |
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Combined analysis of KamLAND and Borexino neutrino signals from Th and U decays in the Earth's interior |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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82 |
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9 |
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093006 - 9pp |
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The KamLAND and Borexino experiments have detected electron antineutrinos produced in the decay chains of natural thorium and uranium (Th and U geoneutrinos). We analyze the energy spectra of current geoneutrino data in combination with solar and long-baseline reactor neutrino data, with marginalized three-neutrino oscillation parameters. We consider the case with unconstrained Th and U event rates in KamLAND and Borexino, as well as cases with fewer degrees of freedom, as obtained by successively assuming for both experiments a common Th/U ratio, a common scaling of Th + U event rates, and a chondritic Th/U value. In combination, KamLAND and Borexino can reject the null hypothesis (no geoneutrino signal) at 5 sigma. Interesting bounds or indications emerge on the Th + U geoneutrino rates and on the Th/U ratio, in broad agreement with typical Earth model expectations. Conversely, the results disfavor the hypothesis of a georeactor in the Earth's core, if its power exceeds a few TW. The interplay of KamLAND and Borexino geoneutrino data is highlighted. |
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[Fogli, G. L.; Rotunno, A. M.] Dipartimento Interateneo Fis Michelangelo Merlin, I-70126 Bari, Italy |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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331 |
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Fonseca, R.M.; Hirsch, M.; Srivastava, R. |
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Delta L=3 processes: Proton decay and the LHC |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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97 |
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7 |
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075026 - 7pp |
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We discuss lepton number violation in three units. From an effective field theory point of view, Delta L = 3 processes can only arise from dimension 9 or higher operators. These operators also violate baryon number, hence many of them will induce proton decay. Given the high dimensionality of these operators, in order to have a proton half-life in the observable range, the new physics associated to Delta L = 3 processes should be at a scale as low as 1 TeV. This opens up the possibility of searching for such processes not only in proton decay experiments but also at the LHC. In this work we analyze the relevant d = 9, 11, 13 operators which violate lepton number in three units. We then construct one simple concrete model with interesting low- and high-energy phenomenology. |
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[Fonseca, Renato M.; Hirsch, Martin; Srivastava, Rahul] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: renato.fonseca@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000430459800005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Fonseca, R.M.; Hirsch, M. |
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SU(5)-inspired double beta decay |
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Journal Article |
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2015 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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92 |
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1 |
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015014 - 14pp |
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The short-range part of the neutrinoless double beta amplitude is generated via the exchange of exotic particles, such as charged scalars, leptoquarks and/or diquarks. In order to give a sizable contribution to the total decay rate, the masses of these exotics should be of the order of (at most) a few TeV. Here, we argue that these exotics could be the “light” (i.e., weak-scale) remnants of some B – L violating variants of SU(5). We show that unification of the standard model gauge couplings, consistent with proton decay limits, can be achieved in such a setup without the need to introduce supersymmetry. Since these nonminimal SU(5)-inspired models violate B – L, they generate Majorana neutrino masses and therefore make it possible to explain neutrino oscillation data. The light colored particles of these models can potentially be observed at the LHC, and it might be possible to probe the origin of the neutrino masses with Delta L = 2 violating signals. As particular realizations of this idea, we present two models, one for each of the two possible tree-level topologies of neutrinoless double beta decay. |
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[Fonseca, Renato M.; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: renato.fonseca@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000357860200006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2300 |
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Fonseca, R.M.; Hirsch, M. |
Title |
Lepton number violation in 331 models |
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Journal Article |
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2016 |
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Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
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94 |
Issue |
11 |
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115003 - 16pp |
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Different models based on the extended SU(3)(C) x SU(3)(L) x U(1)(X) (331) gauge group have been proposed over the past four decades. Yet, despite being an active research topic, the status of lepton number in 331 models has not been fully addressed in the literature, and furthermore many of the original proposals can not explain the observed neutrino masses. In this paper we review the basic features of various 331 models, focusing on potential sources of lepton number violation. We then describe different modifications which can be made to the original models in order to accommodate neutrino (and charged lepton) masses. |
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[Fonseca, Renato M.; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Parc Cient Paterna,Calle Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: renato.fonseca@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000389026700005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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2874 |
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Fonseca, R.M.; Hirsch, M. |
Title |
Gauge vectors and double beta decay |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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95 |
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3 |
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035033 - 14pp |
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We discuss contributions to neutrinoless double beta (0 nu beta beta) decay involving vector bosons. The starting point is a list of all possible vector representations that may contribute to 0 nu beta beta decay via d = 9 or d = 11 operators at tree level. We then identify gauge groups which contain these vectors in the adjoint representation. Even though the complete list of vector fields that can contribute to 0 nu beta beta up to d = 11 is large (a total of 46 vectors), only a few of them can be gauge bosons of phenomenologically realistic groups. These latter cases are discussed in some more detail, and lower (upper) limits on gauge boson masses (mixing angles) are derived from the absence of 0 nu beta beta decay. |
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[Fonseca, Renato M.; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cient Paterna,Calle Catedrat Jose Beltran, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: renato.fonseca@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000396024300010 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3012 |
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Fonseca, R.M.; Hirsch, M. |
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Delta L >= 4 lepton number violating processes |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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98 |
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1 |
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015035 - 12pp |
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We discuss the experimental prospects for observing processes which violate lepton number (Delta L) in four units ( or more). First, we reconsider neutrinoless quadruple beta decay, deriving a model independent and very conservative lower limit on its half- life of the order of 10(41) ys for Nd-150. This renders quadruple beta decay unobservable for any feasible experiment. We then turn to a more general discussion of different possible low-energy processes with values Delta L >= 4. A simple operator analysis leads to rather pessimistic conclusions about the observability at low-energy experiments in all cases we study. However, the situation looks much brighter for accelerator experiments. For two example models with Delta L = 4 and another one with Delta L = 5, we show how the LHC or a hypothetical future pp collider, such as the FCC, could probe multilepton number violating operators at the TeV scale. |
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[Fonseca, Renato M.; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Spain Edificio Inst Paterna,Apartado 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: renato.fonseca@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000439791500005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3675 |
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Fontoura, C.E.; Krein, G.; Valcarce, A.; Vijande, J. |
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Production of exotic tetraquarks QQ(q)over-bar (q)over-bar in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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99 |
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9 |
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094037 - 8pp |
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We investigate the production of exotic tetraquarks, QQ (q) over bar (q) over bar T-QQ (Q = c or b and q = u or d), in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using the quark coalescence model. The T-QQ yield is given by the overlap of the density matrix of the constituents in the emission source with the Wigner function of the produced tetraquark. The tetraquark wave function is obtained from exact solutions of the four-body problem using realistic constituent models. The production yields are typically one order of magnitude smaller than previous estimations based on simplified wave functions for the tetraquarks. We also evaluate the consequences of the partial restoration of chiral symmetry at the hadronization temperature on the coalescence probability. Such effects, in addition to increasing the stability of the tetraquarks, lead to an enhancement of the production yields, pointing towards an excellent discovery potential in forthcoming experiments. We discuss further consequences of our findings for the search of exotic tetraquarks in central Pb + Pb collisions at the LHC. |
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[Fontoura, C. E.] DCTA, Inst Tecnol Aeronaut, BR-12228900 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil, Email: ce.fontoura@unesp.br; |
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WOS:000469331100006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4030 |
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Forero, D.V.; Morisi, S.; Romao, J.C.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Neutrino mixing with revamped A(4) flavor symmetry |
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2013 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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88 |
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1 |
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016003 - 7pp |
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We suggest a minimal extension of the simplest A(4) flavor model that can induce a nonzero theta(13) value, as required by recent neutrino oscillation data from reactors and accelerators. The predicted correlation between the atmospheric mixing angle theta(23) and the magnitude of theta(13) leads to an allowed region substantially smaller than indicated by neutrino-oscillation global fits. Moreover, the scheme correlates CP violation in neutrino oscillations with the octant of the atmospheric mixing parameter theta(23) in such a way that, for example, maximal mixing necessarily violates CP. We briefly comment on other phenomenological features of the model. |
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[Forero, D. V.; Romao, J. C.] Univ Tecn Lisboa, Dept Fis, Inst Super Tecn, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal, Email: dvanegas@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000321125000011 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1507 |
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Forero, D.V.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Global status of neutrino oscillation parameters after Neutrino-2012 |
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Journal Article |
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2012 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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86 |
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7 |
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073012 - 8pp |
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Here we update the global fit of neutrino oscillations in Refs. [T. Schwetz, M. Tortola, and J. W. F. Valle, New J. Phys. 13, 063004 (2011); T. Schwetz, M. Tortola, and J. W. F. Valle, New J. Phys. 13, 109401 (2011)] including the recent measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance reported by the Double Chooz, Daya Bay, and RENO experiments, together with latest MINOS and T2K appearance and disappearance results, as presented at the Neutrino-2012 conference. We find that the preferred global fit value of theta(13) is quite large: sin(2)theta(13) similar or equal to 0.025 for normal and inverted neutrino mass ordering, with theta(13) = 0 now excluded at more than 10 sigma. The impact of the new theta(13) measurements over the other neutrino oscillation parameters is discussed as well as the role of the new long-baseline neutrino data and the atmospheric neutrino analysis in the determination of a non-maximal atmospheric angle theta(23). |
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[Forero, D. V.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: dvanegas@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000309999100003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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1193 |
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Forero, D.V.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F. |
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Neutrino oscillations refitted |
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2014 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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90 |
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9 |
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093006 - 10pp |
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Here, we update our previous global fit of neutrino oscillations by including the recent results that have appeared since the Neutrino 2012 conference. These include the measurements of reactor antineutrino disappearance reported by Daya Bay and RENO, together with latest T2K and MINOS data including both disappearance and appearance channels. We also include the revised results from the third solar phase of Super-Kamiokande, SK-III, as well as new solar results from the fourth phase of Super-Kamiokande, SK-IV. We find that the preferred global determination of the atmospheric angle theta(23) is consistent with maximal mixing. We also determine the impact of the new data upon all the other neutrino oscillation parameters with an emphasis on the increasing sensitivity to the CP phase, thanks to the interplay between accelerator and reactor data. In the Appendix, we present the updated results obtained after the inclusion of new reactor data presented at the Neutrino 2014 conference. We discuss their impact on the global neutrino analysis. |
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[Forero, D. V.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J. W. F.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, CSIC, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: dvanegas@ific.uv.es; |
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