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arxiv: hep-ph/0009269 · v1 · submitted 2000-09-22 · ✦ hep-ph

Analysis of oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos

classification ✦ hep-ph
keywords oscillationsatmosphericmu--schemesdataneutrinosadditionalalthough
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We briefly review the current status of standard oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos in schemes with two, three, and four flavor mixing. It is shown that, although the pure \nu_\mu-->\nu_\tau channel provides an excellent 2\nu fit to the data, one cannot exclude, at present, the occurrence of additional subleading \nu_\mu-->\nu_e oscillations (3\nu schemes) or of sizable \nu_\mu-->\nu_s oscillations (4\nu schemes). It is also shown that the wide dynamical range of energy and pathlength probed by the Super-Kamiokande experiment puts severe constraints on nonstandard explanations of the atmospheric neutrino data, with a few notable exceptions.

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