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Ivan Martinez-Soler

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Updated fit to three neutrino mixing: exploring the accelerator-reactor complementarity

We perform a combined fit to global neutrino oscillation data available as of fall 2016 in the scenario of three-neutrino oscillations and present updated allowed ranges of the six oscillation parameters. We discuss the differences arising between the consistent combination of the data samples from accelerator and reactor experiments compared to partial combinations. We quantify the confidence in the determination of the less precisely known parameters $θ_{23}$, $δ_\text{CP}$, and the neutrino mass ordering by performing a Monte Carlo study of the long baseline accelerator and reactor data. We find that the sensitivity to the mass ordering and the $θ_{23}$ octant is below $1σ$. Maximal $θ_{23}$ mixing is allowed at slightly more than 90% CL. The best fit for the CP violating phase is around $270^\circ$, CP conservation is allowed at slightly above $1σ$, and values of $δ_\text{CP} \simeq 90^\circ$ are disfavored at around 99% CL for normal ordering and higher CL for inverted ordering.

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Non-standard neutrino interactions in the Earth and the flavor of astrophysical neutrinos

We study the modification of the detected flavor content of ultra high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in the presence of non-standard interactions of neutrinos with the Earth matter. Unlike the case of new physics affecting the propagation from the source to the Earth, non-standard Earth matter effects induce a dependence of the flavor content on the arrival direction of the neutrino. We find that, within the current limits on non-standard neutrino interaction parameters, large deviations from the standard 3-nu oscillation predictions can be expected, in particular for fluxes dominated by one flavor at the source. Conversely they do not give sizable corrections to the expectation of equalized flavors in the Earth for sources dominated by production via pion-muon decay-chain.

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