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arxiv: 1812.01088 · v1 · submitted 2018-12-03 · ✦ hep-ex · nucl-ex

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Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration: B. Aharmim , S. N. Ahmed , A. E. Anthony , N. Barros , E. W. Beier , A. Bellerive , B. Beltran , M. Bergevin
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The long baseline between the Earth and the Sun makes solar neutrinos an excellent test beam for exploring possible neutrino decay. The signature of such decay would be an energy-dependent distortion of the traditional survival probability which can be fit for using well-developed and high precision analysis methods. Here a model including neutrino decay is fit to all three phases of $^8$B solar neutrino data taken by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. This fit constrains the lifetime of neutrino mass state $\nu_2$ to be ${>8.08\times10^{-5}}$ s/eV at $90\%$ confidence. An analysis combining this SNO result with those from other solar neutrino experiments results in a combined limit for the lifetime of mass state $\nu_2$ of ${>1.04\times10^{-3}}$ s/eV at $99\%$ confidence.

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