# Indiana University

 dc.contributor.author Aharmin, Bassam dc.contributor.author Levine, Ilan dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-26T16:53:38Z dc.date.available 2021-01-26T16:53:38Z dc.date.issued 2019-02 dc.identifier.citation To cite this article: Aharmim, B., et al. “Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.” Physical. RevIew D, vol. 99, no. 3, American Physical Society, Feb. 2019, p. 032013, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.032013. en dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/2022/26102 dc.description.abstract The long baseline between 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 8B solar neutrino data taken by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). This fit constrains the lifetime of neutrino mass state ν2 to be >8.08×10−5  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 ν2 of >1.92×10−3  s/eV at 90% confidence. dc.format.extent 11 pages dc.format.mimetype PDF dc.language.iso en en dc.publisher American Physical Society en dc.subject.lcsh Neutrinos dc.title Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory en dc.type Article en dc.identifier.doi 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.032013
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