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Neutrino Oscillation Results and Search for Neutrino Sterile States

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Neutrino oscillations are an amazing phenomenon which was suggested for the first time 65 years ago and finally confirmed experimentally about 25 yr ago. It provided an extremely important new insight of non-zero neutrino masses most popularly connected to the existence of New Physics beyond the Standard Model. Neutrino oscillation studies continue playing an important role, and there are many ongoing and future experimental projects, as well as theoretical developments aimed to improve our knowledge of oscillation parameters. In this paper, the status and prospects of oscillation measurements are described. This comprises the standard interpretation and also discussion of the existence of additional sterile states of neutrinos.

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  1. \(\Delta m_{{ij}}^{2} = m_{i}^{2} - m_{j}^{2}\,\,(i,j = 1,2,3)\), for which the correspondence \(\Delta m_{{31}}^{2} = \Delta m_{{32}}^{2} + \Delta m_{{21}}^{2}\) is true.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Most of the material presented in this report is based on contributions to the XXX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Virtual Seoul, May 30–June 4, 2022. The author is very grateful to all contributors, in particular, to the speakers: Yifang Wang, Silvia Pascoli, Joachim Kopp, Matthieu Licciardi, Peter Denton, Carlos Delgado, Steve Elliott, Anne Schukraft, Hanyu Wei and many others.

Special thanks I owe to my colleagues: Maxim Gonchar and Liudmila Kolupaeva who are maintaining the site with oscillation results and their combinations: https://git.jinr.ru/nu/osc.

I am grateful to Natalia Mazarskaya for careful reading and correcting the manuscript.

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The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant agreement 18-12-00271.

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Olshevskiy, A.G. Neutrino Oscillation Results and Search for Neutrino Sterile States. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 20, 202–212 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477123030494

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