Abstract

The Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment has accumulated data on atmospheric neutrino and solar neutrino events and has made improvements in their measurements over the last 20 years. A three-flavor oscillation analysis was conducted with the atmospheric neutrino data in order to study the mass hierarchy, the leptonic CP violation term, and other oscillation parameters. A stronger preference for the normal mass hierarchy was obtained with SK + T2K external data: Δχ2 = χ2NH − χ2IH = −5.2 (−3.1 was expected when assuming the best fit parameters of the SK + T2K). The analysis of the appearance of t neutrinos has been updated and a significance of 4.6σ was observed. The observation of ~84,000 solar neutrinos give precise measurements of the energy spectrum and time variation testing terrestrial and solar matter effects. This data favor a lower Δm221 value than that measured with reactor anti-neutrinos by KamLAND by more than 2s, and they determine this parameter in the solar neutrino oscillation fit.

Full Text
Published version (Free)

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call