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Nonmaximal θ_{23} Mixing at NOvA from Neutrino Decoherence
João A B Coelho1,2, W Anthony Mann1, Saqib S Bashar1
1Physics Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
Abstract:
In a study of a muon-neutrino disappearance at 810 km, the NOvA experiment finds flavor mixing of the atmospheric sector to deviate from maximal (sin^{2}θ_{23}=0.5) by 2.6σ. The result is in tension with the 295-km baseline measurements of T2K, which are consistent with maximal mixing. We propose that θ_{23} is in fact maximal, and that the disagreement is a harbinger of environmentally induced decoherence. The departure from maximal mixing can be accounted for by an energy-independent decoherence of strength Γ=(2.3±1.1)×10^{-23} GeV.
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