Neutrino oscillations, global analysis and theta(13)

Abstract

At the previous Venice meeting NO-VE 2008, we discussed possible hints in favor of a nonzero value for the unknown neutrino mixing angle theta(13), emerging from the combination of solar and long-baseline reactor data, as well as from the combination of atmospheric, CHOOZ and long-baseline accelerator nu_mu->nu_mu data. Recent MINOS 2009 results in the nu_mu->nu_e appearance channel also seem to support such hints. A combination of all current oscillation data provides, as preferred range, sin^2 theta(13) = 0.02 +- 0.01 (1σ). We review several issues raised by such hints in the last year, and comment on their possible near-future improvements and tests.

9 pages, including 4 figures. Talk presented by G.L. Fogli at NEUTEL 2009, XIII International Workshop on "Neutrino Telescopes" (Venice, Italy, March 10-13, 2009). Note: Title and abstract modified in the current arXiv version

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