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Which solar neutrino data favour the LMA solution?

Alessandro Strumia, Carla Cattadori, Nicola Ferrari, Francesco Vissani

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0205261

Abstract

Assuming neutrino oscillations, global analyses of solar data find that the LOW solution is significantly disfavoured, leaving LMA as the best solution. But the preference for LMA rests on three weak hints: the spectrum of earth matter effects (Super-Kamiokande sees an overall day/night asymmetry only at 1 sigma), the Cl rate (but LMA and LOW predictions are both above the measured value), the Ga rate (newer data decrease towards the LOW predictions both in GNO and SAGE). Only new data will tell us if LMA is the true solution.

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