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Results for solar neutrino detection from the SuperKamiokande collaboration have been presented recently while those from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are expected in the near future. These experiments are sensitive to the8B neutrinos from the sun, the shape of whose spectrum is well-known but the normalization is less certain. We propose several variables, insensitive to the absolute flux of the incident beam, which probe the shape of the observed spectrum and can sensitively signal neutrino oscillations. They provide methods to extract the neutrino mixing angle and mass splitting from the data and also to distinguish oscillation to sequential neutrinos from those to a sterile neutrino.
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Majumdar, D., Raychaudhuri, A. Solar neutrino oscillation diagnostics at SuperKamiokande and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Pramana - J Phys 52, L529–L536 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02830099
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