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Title: Simple and precise factorization of the Jarlskog invariant for neutrino oscillations in matter

Abstract

For neutrino propagation in matter, we show that the Jarlskog invariant, which controls the size of true CP violation in neutrino oscillation appearance experiments, factorizes into three pieces: the vacuum Jarlskog invariant times two simple two-flavor matter resonance factors that control the matter effects for the solar and atmospheric resonances independently. If the solar effective matter potential and the atmospheric effective Δm2 are chosen carefully for these two resonance factors, then the fractional corrections to this factorization are an impressive 0.04% or smaller. We also show that the inverse of the square of the Jarlskog in matter (1/$$\hat{J}^2$$) is a fourth order polynomial in the matter potential which guarantees that it can be factored into two quadratics which immediately implies the functional form of our approximate, factorized expression.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1561336
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1529342; OSTI ID: 1562465
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1902.07185; FERMILAB-PUB-19-072-T; BNL-212090-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 053004
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D.
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; neutrino; CP; violation; quarks; lepton; neutrinos; Jarlskog

Citation Formats

Denton, Peter B., and Parke, Stephen J. Simple and precise factorization of the Jarlskog invariant for neutrino oscillations in matter. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.053004.
Denton, Peter B., & Parke, Stephen J. Simple and precise factorization of the Jarlskog invariant for neutrino oscillations in matter. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.053004
Denton, Peter B., and Parke, Stephen J. 2019. "Simple and precise factorization of the Jarlskog invariant for neutrino oscillations in matter". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.053004.
@article{osti_1561336,
title = {Simple and precise factorization of the Jarlskog invariant for neutrino oscillations in matter},
author = {Denton, Peter B. and Parke, Stephen J.},
abstractNote = {For neutrino propagation in matter, we show that the Jarlskog invariant, which controls the size of true CP violation in neutrino oscillation appearance experiments, factorizes into three pieces: the vacuum Jarlskog invariant times two simple two-flavor matter resonance factors that control the matter effects for the solar and atmospheric resonances independently. If the solar effective matter potential and the atmospheric effective Δm2 are chosen carefully for these two resonance factors, then the fractional corrections to this factorization are an impressive 0.04% or smaller. We also show that the inverse of the square of the Jarlskog in matter (1/$\hat{J}^2$) is a fourth order polynomial in the matter potential which guarantees that it can be factored into two quadratics which immediately implies the functional form of our approximate, factorized expression.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.053004},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1561336}, journal = {Physical Review. D.},
issn = {2470-0010},
number = 5,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: The fractional precision in $$\hat{J}$$ compares our approximate expression with the exact expression calculated from [10], or Eqs. (15) and (16). The orange curves our approximate expression from Eqs. (5) and (6). The green curves are the analytic approximation of the precision shown in Eq. (19). The yellowmore » and blue vertical lines are the solar and atmospheric resonances, respectively. The vertical strip is the amount of matter potential that DUNE will probe. The downward spikes occur where the exact and approximate expressions cross. The normal mass ordering (NO) is assumed.« less

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