Ghulam Mustafa, Faisal Akram, Bilal Masud
理论物理通讯. 2013, 59(03): 324-330.
We show how the traditional grid based method for finding neutrino oscillation parameters Δm2 and tan2 θ can be combined with an optimization technique, Differential Evolution (DE), to get a significant decrease in computer processing time required to obtain minimal chi-square (χ2) in four different regions of the parameter space. We demonstrate efficiency for the two-neutrinos case. For this, the χ2 function for neutrino oscillations is evaluated for grids with different density of points in standard allowed regions of the parameter space of Δm2 and tan2 θ using experimental and theoretical total event rates of chlorine (Homestake), Gallex+GNO, SAGE, Superkamiokande, and SNO detectors. We find that using DE in combination with the grid based method with small density of points can produce the results comparable with the one obtained using high density grid, in much lesser computation time.