Título: | STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF STERILE NEUTRINOS IN BETA DECAY EXPERIMENTS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autor: |
FABIO ALEX PEREIRA DOS SANTOS |
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Colaborador(es): |
HIROSHI NUNOKAWA - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 22/OUT/2008 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12397&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12397&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.12397 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In this dissertation we study, from the phenomenological
point of view, the effects of sterile neutrinos for the
observables related to neutrino masses based on the data of
the LSND experiment and on the results releasedrecently by
the MiniBooNE collaboration. We consider the following mass
related obsevables: the kinematic mass parameter which is
obtained in tritium beta decay experiments whose current
value is provided by Mainzand Troitsk experiments; the
Majorana effective mass, it is a quantity that can be
obtained in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. In
additionto these quantities, we also consider the sum of
neutrinos masses, which isconstrained by cosmological data.
Our analysis is performed by considering the possible mass
orderings for the cases where we have two sterile
neutrinosbeyond the three standard active neutrinos, whose
addition is necessary to explain the results of LSND
andMiniBooNE simultaneously. In this scenariot here are
eight possible mass orderings, which are divided into three
groups.In the first group we have two sterile neutrinos
which are heavier thanthe three active neutrinos. In the
second group the two sterile neutrinosare lighter than the
three active neutrinos. Each of these two groups canbe
further divided into 2 subgroups depending on the mass
ordering ofthe active neutrinos that can be normal or
inverted. In the third and lastgroup we have one sterile
neutrino lighter and the other heavier than thethree active
neutrinos. In this group there are four possibilities of
ordering depending on the positioning of the sterile
neutrinos with respect to theactive ones and on the mass
ordering of the active states. We investigate
systematically the masses observable in each of these
scenarios.
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