Monte Carlo simulation of an experiment looking for radiative solar neutrino decays

摘要

We analyse the possibility of detecting visible photons from a hypothetical radiative decay of solar neutrinos. Our study is focused on the simulation of such measurements during total solar eclipses and it is based on the BP2000 Standard Solar Model and on the most recent experimental information concerning the neutrino properties. Our calculations yield the probabilities of the decays, the shapes of the visible signals and the spectral distributions of the expected photons, under the assumption that solar neutrino oscillations occur according to the LMA model. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.