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Three-Neutrino Vacuum Oscillation Solutions to the Solar and Atmospheric Anomalies

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Full three-neutrino fits to the solar and atmospheric neutrino data seem to favor a decoupling of the parameters associated with the solar and atmospheric oscillations, and also indicate maximal or nearly maximal mixing for each type of experiment. There are many scenarios that could give bi-maximal or quasi bi-maximal mixing. Furthermore, the data strongly favors separate δm 2 scales for the solar and atmospheric oscillations, which means that apparently four neutrinos are required to also explain the LSND result. Once the solar and atmospheric oscillation scales are assumed, current beta decay limits on m ve, may be extended to include m vμ and m vτ in a three-neutrino model. Finally, future long-baseline and solar neutrino experiments should be able to greatly constrain the allowed ranges of the three–neutrino parameters.

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Whisnant, K. (2002). Three-Neutrino Vacuum Oscillation Solutions to the Solar and Atmospheric Anomalies. In: Kursunoglu, B.N., Mintz, S.L., Perlmutter, A. (eds) Confluence of Cosmology, Massive Neutrinos, Elementary Particles, and Gravitation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47094-2_5

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