Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in Three-Flavor Neutrinos. II

• Main Authors: Sakai, Toyokazu, Teshima, Tadayuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 05.01.1999
• Subjects: Physics - High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9901219

Prog.Theor.Phys. 102 (1999) 629-644 We analyze the atmospheric neutrino experiments of SuperKamiokande (535 days) using the three-flavor neutrino framework with the mass hierarchy m_1 nearly equal m_2 << m_3. We study the event ratios of sub-GeV, multi-GeV and upward through-going muons zenith angle distributions. Taking into account the atmospheric and terrestrial experiments, we obtain the allowed regions of mass and mixing parameters \Delta m_{12}^2, sin^22\theta_{12}, \Delta m_{23}^2, \theta_{13} and \theta_{23}. The mass parameter \Delta m^2_{23} is restricted to 0.01eV^2-0.0002eV^2. For mixing parameters, there is no difference between the large \theta_{12} angle solution and the small one, and \theta_{13}<13degrees, 28degrees<\theta_{23}<37degrees and 53degrees< \theta_{23}<62degrees for \Delta m_{23}^2=0.01eV^2, \theta_{13}<23degrees and 29degrees<\theta_{23}<61degrees for \Delta m_{23}^2=0.00eV^2, 4degrees< \theta_{13}<22degrees and 38degrees<\theta_{23}<54degrees for \Delta m_{23}^2 =0.0002eV^2.