Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2014)047
Keywords
Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model
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- DST/INSPIRE Research Grant, Department of Science & Technology, India [IFA-PH-12]
- IFIC-CSIC, University of Valencia, Spain
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG05-92ER40677 task A]
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
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We argue that the neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter are best understood by allowing the mixing angles and mass-squared differences in the standard parametrization to 'run' with the matter effect parameter a = , where N (e) is the electron density in matter and E is the neutrino energy. We present simple analytical approximations to these 'running' parameters. We show that for the moderately large value of theta (13), as discovered by the reactor experiments, the running of the mixing angle theta (23) and the CP violating phase delta can be neglected. It simplifies the analysis of the resulting expressions for the oscillation probabilities considerably. Approaches which attempt to directly provide approximate analytical expressions for the oscillation probabilities in matter suffer in accuracy due to their reliance on expansion in theta (13), or in simplicity when higher order terms in theta (13) are included. We demonstrate the accuracy of our method by comparing it to the exact numerical result, as well as the direct approximations of Cervera et al., Akhmedov et al., Asano and Minakata, and Freund. We also discuss the utility of our approach in figuring out the required baseline lengths and neutrino energies for the oscillation probabilities to exhibit certain desirable features.
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