http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10884
We continue examining statistical data assimilation (SDA), an inference methodology, to infer solutions to neutrino flavor evolution, for the first time using real – rather than simulated – data. The model represents neutrinos streaming from the Sun’s center and undergoing a Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) resonance in flavor space, due to the radially-varying electron number density. The model neutrino energies are chosen to correspond to experimental bins in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and Borexino experiments, which measure electron-flavor survival probability at Earth. The procedure successfully finds consistency between the observed fluxes and the model, if the MSW resonance – that is, flavor evolution due to solar electrons – is included in the dynamical equations representing the model.
C. Laber-Smith, A. Ahmetaj, E. Armstrong, et. al.
Fri, 21 Oct 22
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