Statistical treatment of detection cross-section uncertainties in the analysis of solar neutrino data
arXiv:hep-ph/0006026 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00866-2
Abstract
We propose a modification to the standard statistical treatment of the detection cross-section uncertainties in the analysis of solar neutrino data. We argue that the uncertainties of the energy-averaged cross sections of the different neutrino fluxes in the same experiment should be treated as correlated. We show that the resulting allowed regions for the neutrino oscillation parameters are significantly larger than the ones obtained with uncorrelated uncertainties.
12 pages. Corrected Figures 4 and 5 (vacuum oscillations)