Constraints on neutrino lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Aharmim, B.; Ahmed, S. N.; Anthony, A. E.; Barros, N.; Beier, E. W.; Bellerive, A.; Beltran, B.; Bergevin, M.; Biller, S. D.; Bonventre, R.; Boudjemline, K.; Boulay, M. G.; Cai, B.; Callaghan, E. J.; Caravaca, J.; Chan, Y. D.; Chauhan, D.; Chen, M.; Cleveland, B. T.; Cox, G. A.; Dai, X.; Deng, H.; Descamps, F. B.; Detwiler, J. A.; Doe, P. J.; Doucas, G.; Drouin, P. -L.; Dunford, M.; Elliott, S. R.; Evans, H. C.; Ewan, G. T.; Farine, J.; Fergani, H.; Fleurot, F.; Ford, R. J.; Formaggio, J. A.; Gagnon, N.; Gilje, K.; Goon, J. TM.; Graham, K.; Guillian, E.; Habib, S.; Hahn, R. L.; Hallin, A. L.; Hallman, E. D.; Harvey, P. J.; Hazama, R.; Heintzelman, W. J.; Heise, J.; Helmer, R. L.; Hime, A.; Howard, C.; Huang, M.; Jagam, P.; Jamieson, B.; Jelley, N. A.; Jerkins, M.; Kéfélian, C.; Keeter, K. J.; Klein, J. R.; Kormos, L. L.; Kos, M.; Krüger, A.; Kraus, C.; Krauss, C. B.; Kutter, T.; Kyba, C. C.  M.; Land, B. J.; Lange, R.; Law, J.; Lawson, I. T.; Lesko, K. T.; Leslie, J. R.; Levine, I.; Loach, J. C.; MacLellan, R.; Majerus, S.; Mak, H. B.; Maneira, J.; Martin, R. D.; Mastbaum, A.; McCauley, N.; McDonald, A. B.; McGee, S. R.; Miller, M. L.; Monreal, B.; Monroe, J.; Nickel, B. G.; Noble, A. J.; O’Keeffe, H. M.; Oblath, N. S.; Okada, C. E.; Ollerhead, R. W.; Orebi Gann, G. D.; Oser, S. M.; Ott, R. A.; Peeters, S. J.  M.; Poon, A. W.  P.; Prior, G.; Reitzner, S. D.; Rielage, K.; Robertson, B. C.; Robertson, R. G.  H.; Schwendener, M. H.; Secrest, J. A.; Seibert, S. R.; Simard, O.; Sinclair, D.; Skensved, P.; Sonley, T. J.; Stonehill, L. C.; Tešić, G.; Tolich, N.; Tsui, T.; Van Berg, R.; VanDevender, B. A.; Virtue, C. J.; Wall, B. L.; Waller, D.; Wan Chan Tseung, H.; Wark, D. L.; Wendland, J.; West, N.; Wilkerson, J. F.; Wilson, J. R.; Winchester, T.; Wright, A.; Yeh, M.; Zhang, F.; Zuber, K.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.032013

Title: Constraints on neutrino lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Journal Article · Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.032013· OSTI ID:1523428

Aharmim, B.; Ahmed, S. N.; Anthony, A. E.; Barros, N.; Beier, E. W.; Bellerive, A.; Beltran, B.; Bergevin, M.; Biller, S. D.; Bonventre, R.; Boudjemline, K.; Boulay, M. G.; Cai, B.; Callaghan, E. J.; Caravaca, J.; Chan, Y. D.; Chauhan, D.; Chen, M.; Cleveland, B. T.; Cox, G. A. more »

The long baseline between Earth and the Sun makes solar neutrinos an excellent test beam for exploring possible neutrino decay. The signature of such decay would be an energy-dependent distortion of the traditional survival probability which can be fit for using well-developed and high-precision analysis methods. Here a model including neutrino decay is fit to all three phases of B-8 solar neutrino data taken by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). This fit constrains the lifetime of neutrino mass state ν2 to be > 8.08 × 10^-5 s/eV at 90% confidence. An analysis combining this SNO result with those from other solar neutrino experiments results in a combined limit for the lifetime of mass state ν2 of > 1.92×10^-3 s/eV at 90% confidence.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Contributing Organization:: SNO Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; FG02-97ER41033; FG02-97ER41041; AC02-05CH11231; 89233218CNA000001; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1523428

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1501562; OSTI ID: 1503196; OSTI ID: 1505527; OSTI ID: 1658821; OSTI ID: 1658951

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-18-773-ESH; arXiv:1812.01088; BNL-211416-2019-JAAM; LA-UR-18-31262; PRVDAQ; 1706869

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 99, Issue 3; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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