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- Akhmedov, Evgeny, et al.
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1-3 leptonic mixing and the neutrino oscillograms of the Earth
- 2007
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In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1126-6708 .- 1029-8479. ; :5, s. 077-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We develop a detailed and comprehensive description of neutrino oscillations driven by the 1-3 mixing in the matter of the Earth. The description is valid for the realistic (PREM) Earth density profile in the whole range of nadir angles and for neutrino energies above 1 GeV. It can be applied to oscillations of atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos. The results are presented in the form of neutrino oscillograms of the Earth, i.e. the contours of equal oscillation probabilities in the neutrino energy-nadir angle plane. A detailed physics interpretation of the oscilligrams, which includes the MSW peaks, parametric ridges, local maxima, zeros and saddle points, is given in terms of the amplitude and phase conditions. Precise analytic formulas for the probabilities are obtained. We study the dependence of the oscillation pattern on theta(13) and find, in particular, that the survival probability P-ee < 1/2 appears for sin(2) 2 theta(13) as small as similar to 0.009. We consider the dependence of the oscillation pattern on the matter density profile and comment on the possibility of the oscillation tomography of the Earth.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny, et al.
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Duality in left-right symmetric seesaw
- 2006
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In: Physica Scripta. - 0031-8949 .- 1402-4896. ; T127, s. 59-61
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We perform a reconstruction of the mass matrix of heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos in the framework of the left - right symmetric type I + II seesaw mechanism. An intriguing pairwise duality relation between different solutions is shown to exist.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny
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Duality in left-right symmetric seesaw
- 2007
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In: Nuclear physics B, Proceedings supplements. - : Elsevier BV. - 0920-5632 .- 1873-3832. ; 168, s. 369-371
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A reconstruction of the mass matrix of heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos is performed in the framework of the left-right symmetric type I+II seesaw mechanism. An intriguing pairwise duality relation between different solutions is shown to exist.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny, et al.
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Interplay of type I and type II seesaw contributions to neutrino mass
- 2007
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In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1126-6708 .- 1029-8479. ; :1, s. 043-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Type I and type II seesaw contributions to the mass matrix of light neutrinos are inherently related if left-right symmetry is realized at high energy scales. We investigate implications of such a relation for the interpretation of neutrino data. We proved recently that the left-right symmetric seesaw equation has eight solutions, related by a duality property, for the mass matrix of right-handed neutrinos M-R. In this paper the eight allowed structures of M-R are reconstructed analytically and analyzed numerically in a bottom-up approach. We study the dependence of right-handed neutrino masses on the mass spectrum of light neutrinos, mixing angle theta(13), leptonic CP violation, scale of left-right symmetry breaking and on the hierarchy in neutrino Yukawa couplings. The structure of the seesaw formula in several specific SO(10) models is explored in the light of the duality. The outcome of leptogenesis may depend crucially on the choice among the allowed structures of M-R and on the level crossing between right-handed neutrino masses.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny Kh
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Neutrino oscillations : Theory and phenomenology
- 2006
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In: NEUTRINO - Proc. Int. Conf. Neutrino Phys. Astrophys.. ; , s. 16-22
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A brief overview of selected topics in the theory and phenomenology of neutrino oscillations is given. These include: oscillations in vacuum and in matter; phenomenology of 3-flavour neutrino oscillations; CP and T violation in neutrino oscillations in vacuum and in matter; matter effects on νμ ↔ ντ oscillations; parametric resonance in neutrino oscillations inside the earth; oscillations below and above the MSW resonance; unsettled issues in the theory of neutrino oscillations.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny K., et al.
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Series expansions for three-flavor neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter
- 2004
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In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). - : IOP Publishing. - 1126-6708 .- 1029-8479. ; 2004:04, s. 078-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present a number of complete sets of series expansion formulas for neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter of constant density for three flavors. In particular, we study expansions in the mass hierarchy parameter alpha = Deltam(21)(2)/Deltam(31)(2) and mixing parameter s(13) = sin theta(13) up to second order and expansions only in alpha and only in s(13) up to first order. For each type of expansion we also present the corresponding formulas for neutrino oscillations in vacuum. We perform a detailed analysis of the accuracy of the different sets of series expansion formulas and investigate which type of expansion is most accurate in different regions of the parameter space spanned by the neutrino energy E, the baseline length L, and the expansion parameters alpha and s(13). We also present the formulas for series expansions in alpha and in s(13) up to first order for the case of arbitrary matter density profiles. Furthermore, it is shown that in general all the 18 neutrino and antineutrino oscillation probabilities can be expressed through just two independent probabilities.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny
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Neutrino oscillations : Theory and phenomenology
- 2011
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In: Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. - : Elsevier BV. - 0920-5632. ; 221, s. 19-25
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A brief overview of selected topics in the theory and phenomenology of neutrino oscillations is given. These include: oscillations in vacuum and in matter; phenomenology of 3-flavour neutrino oscillations; CP and T violation in neutrino oscillations in vacuum and in matter; matter effects on ν μ↔ν τ oscillations; parametric resonance in neutrino oscillations inside the earth; oscillations below and above the MSW resonance; unsettled issues in the theory of neutrino oscillations.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny, et al.
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Stability and leptogenesis in the left-right symmetric seesaw mechanism
- 2007
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In: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1126-6708 .- 1029-8479. ; 4, s. 022-1-022-25
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We analyze the left-right symmetric type I+II seesaw mechanism, where an eight-fold degeneracy among the mass matrices of heavy right-handed neutrinos M-R is known to exist. Using the stability property of the solutions and their ability to lead to successful baryogenesis via leptogenesis as additional criteria, we discriminate among these eight solutions and partially lift their eight-fold degeneracy. In particular, we find that viable leptogenesis is generically possible for four out of the eight solutions.
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- Akhmedov, Evgeny, et al.
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T violation in neutrino oscillations in matter
- 2001
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In: Nuclear Physics B. - : Elsevier Science B.V.. - 0550-3213 .- 1873-1562. ; 608:02-jan, s. 394-422
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We consider the interplay of fundamental and matter-induced T violation effects in neutrino oscillations in matter. After discussing the general features of these effects we derive a simple approximate analytic expression for the T-violating probability asymmetry DeltaP(ab)(T) for three-flavour neutrino oscillations in a matter with an arbitrary density profile in terms of the two-flavour neutrino amplitudes. Explicit examples are given for the cases of a two-layer medium and for the adiabatic Emit in the general case. We then discuss implications of the obtained results for long baseline experiments. We show, in particular, that asymmetric matter effects cannot hinder the determination of the fundamental CP- and T-violating phase delta (CP) in the long baseline experiments as far as the error in this determination is larger than 1% at 99% CL. Since there are no T-violating effects in the two-flavour case, and in the limits of vanishing theta (13) or Deltam(21)(2) the three-flavour neutrino oscillations effectively reduce to the two-flavour ones, studying the T-violating asymmetries ApT ab can in principle provide us with a complementary means of measuring theta (13) and Deltam(21)(2).
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