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S. J. Yellin

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arXiv2001

Large Extra Dimensions, Sterile neutrinos and Solar Neutrino Data

Solar, atmospheric and LSND neutrino oscillation results require a light sterile neutrino, $ν_B$, which can exist in the bulk of extra dimensions. Solar $ν_e$, confined to the brane, can oscillate in the vacuum to the zero mode of $ν_B$ and via successive MSW transitions to Kaluza-Klein states of $ν_B$. This new way to fit solar data is provided by both low and intermediate string scale models. From average rates seen in the three types of solar experiments, the Super-Kamiokande spectrum is predicted with 73% probability, but dips characteristic of the 0.06 mm extra dimension should be seen in the SNO spectrum.

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arXiv2001

Neutrinos, Large Extra Dimensions and Solar Neutrino Puzzle

A desirable feature of models with large extra dimensions and a TeV range string scale is the possibility to understand an ultralight sterile neutrino needed for a simultaneous understanding of solar, atmospheric and LSND results as a Kaluza-Klein state of a bulk neutrino. How these oscillation data are understood in quantitative detail is still not clear. We have recently suggested a new way to understand the solar neutrino data in this framework by a combination of vacuum and small angle MSW transition of $ν_e$ to sterile KK modes of the bulk neutrino. This mechanism can be embedded into an economical extension of the standard model in the brane to understand the atmospheric and LSND data. After a brief discussion of how small neutrino masses arise naturally in extra dimensional models, we review this new suggestion.

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