tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post6697282500954219288..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Revised Planck Limits on the Sum Of Neutrino MassesAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-63032115321994586932014-02-07T15:13:48.985-07:002014-02-07T15:13:48.985-07:00Fits to the reactor anomaly data are discussed her...Fits to the reactor anomaly data are discussed <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3011" rel="nofollow">here</a>. <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5253" rel="nofollow">One model</a> fits the data by assuming that neutrino mixing values are not fixed by random variables with a particular distribution. <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3255" rel="nofollow">This paper</a> confirms that the Planck data disfavor a reactor anomaly sterile neutrino but believe that it could be consistent with a hot dark matter component. <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5880" rel="nofollow">This paper</a> describes boundaries on the magnitude of fourth generation sterile neutrino mixing with electron neutrinos. <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1011" rel="nofollow">This paper</a> suggests that the reactor anomaly is really a flaw in the standard version of the equation used to describe the quantum mechanical laws governing the movement of neutrinos. <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4146" rel="nofollow">This paper</a> argues that the reactor anomaly is the result of underestimates of the experimental uncertainty in the experiments where it is claimed to appear. The KamLAND experiment is working on <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0896" rel="nofollow">higher precision tests</a> of the reactor anomaly.<br /><br />Personally, I suspect that better theory and better experiments will make the reactor anomaly go away with no new physics.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-73313918575621740502014-02-07T14:25:17.602-07:002014-02-07T14:25:17.602-07:00Other potentially observable tests of reactor anom...Other potentially observable tests of reactor anomaly sterile neutrinos based upon supernova behavior are proposed <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1453" rel="nofollow">here</a>.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.com