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Limits on Lorentz invariance violation in atmospheric neutrino oscillations using MACRO data. From Colliders to Cosmic Rays 7 – 13 September 2005, Prague, Czech Republic. M. Giorgini University of Bologna, Italy, and INFN. Outline. Mass-induced n oscillations : - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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M. Giorgini
University of Bologna, Italy, and INFN
Limits on Lorentz invariance violation in atmospheric neutrino oscillations
using MACRO data
From Colliders to Cosmic Rays 7 – 13 September 2005, Prague, Czech Republic
Outline
• Mass-induced oscillations : MACRO atmospheric results• Violation of Lorentz Invariance (VLI)• VLI-induced oscillations• Mixed oscillation scenario : MACRO results• Conclusions
Mass-induced oscillations
23 ≡ mm
m3 2
es
Mass-induced atmospheric oscillations
• Strong evidence for mass-induced oscillations given by MACRO, SK, Soudan 2 :• Deficit of muon events with respect to the predictions• Distortion of the zenith distribution • Energy spectrum• First dip in the L/E distribution
• ↔ oscillations favoured (> 99% C.L.) with respect to:• ↔ sterile
(MACRO Coll., Phys. Lett. B517 (2001) 59 ; SK Coll., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 3999)
• ↔ e
(SK Coll., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 101801)
• decay, decoherence, CPT violation,… (A. Habig, 28th ICRC, Japan, 2003)
• Violation of Lorentz Invariance (VLI) (Phys. Rev. D60 (1999) 053006 ; Phys. Rev. D70 (2004) 033010 ; hep-ph/0407087)
Mass-induced oscillations : MACRO results
Category E Data MCno osc
Upthr. 50 857 1169 IU 4.2 157 285 ID+UGS 3.5 262 375
Upthroughgoing (857 events)
• Absolute flux : new MC codes have problems with the new cosmic ray fit• Zenith angle distribution : shape known within 5%
L/E distribution
E
LmP
222 27.1sin2sin1
From the shape of the muon zenith distribution
From the measurement of the muon energy using the Multiple Coulomb Scattering (PLB566 (2003) 35).
Upthr. data (~300 events)IU data
12% point-to-point syst. error
MC predictions for oscillations with the best
MACRO parameters
• Zenith distribution
Final results (Eur. Phys. J. C36 (2004) 357)
• E estimate by MCS
• IU, ID and UGS
R1= N(cos < -0.7) / N(cos> -0.4)
R2= N(low E) / N(high E)
R3= N(ID+UGS) / N(IU)
{H.E.
NO OSCILLATION HYPOTHESISRULED OUT BY ~ 5
L.E.
Adding the absolute flux information (Bartol96 correct within 17%)
NO OSCILLATION HYPOTHESISRULED OUT BY ~ 6
Only 3 ratios
Best parameters for m2 = 2.3 10-3 eV2 ; sin2 2 =1
3 ratios + 2 normalizations
90% C.L.
Violation of Lorentz Invariance (VLI)
If VLI is introduced, particles could have different Maximum Attainable Velocities (MAVs) vi (p=∞) ≠ c
3 2
Mixed oscillation scenario
Mixed oscillations scenario• While in the “pure” cases probabilities do not depend on the sign of v, m2 and mixing angles, in the mixed scenario relative signs are important
• Domain of variability : m2 ≥ 0v ≥ 0 0 ≤ m ≤ /4 -/4 ≤ v ≤ /4
• Oscillations induced by the Violation of the Equivalence Principle (VEP) may be treated similarly to VLI-induced oscillations
• Due to the L and E dependence, VLI effects are emphasized for large L and large E
Survival probability vs E
(L=10000 km , m2=2.3.10-3 eV2 , m= /4
+0.3
-0.3
+0.7 -0.7 +1 -1
Main effect are mass-induced oscillationsVLI is considered as a subdominant effect, at least for the accessible energies
Mixed scenario: MACRO data analyses
We used the data with E reconstructed by Multiple Coulomb Scattering (~300 events). Phys. Lett. B566 (2003) 35
Two different techniques were used to estimate the upper limits of possible exotic contributions to atmospheric neutrino oscillations
• Conventional Feldman-Cousins analysis based on the χ2 criterion
• Analysis based on the Maximum Likelihood function
χ2 analysis
η= 0
high>
Cuts optimizedwith MC
Results (Phys. Lett. B615 (2005) 14)Neutrino flux used in MC: Honda et al., Phys Rev. D70 (2004) 043008
Likelihood analysis
Minimization of the function:
F = -2 ∑ ln f(Ei,Li ; m2,v,m23,v
23)i
f(x:a) = K × pMC × p( → )
Event by event analysis to exploit the full information
Analysis procedure
We allowed the oscillation mass parameters to vary along the 90%C.L. contour of the final MACRO solution without normalization.For each point of the contour we performed maximum likelihood fits for the VLI parameters
We used the events (106) with the most accurate energy reconstruction
25 GeV ≤ E ≤ 75 GeV
Results
The 90% C.L. limits obtained from the convolution of the local 90% C.L. upper/lower limits.
Conclusions
•We re-analyzed the L and E distributions of MACRO neutrino data to include the possibility of exotic effects (Violation of Lorentz Invariance)
•Two different analyses were performed on 2 different data subsamples, both yielding |v| upper limits of the order of 10-25
•Very large volume neutrino experiments could tell more in the next years…