Comparative Periodogram Analysis of 22 Years of Super-Kamiokande Solar 8 B Neutrino Data: Classical, Phase-Based, and Information Theoretic Methods

arXiv:2607.27979 · astro-ph.HE, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Liangliang Ren, Ze-Lin Zhang, Bing Xu, Tian-Cheng Huang, Ran Wang, Jia-Xin Dong, Yan-Ping Wang

astro-ph.HE, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Comments: 42 pages,24 figures,3 tables,submitted to JCAP,comments welcome

Code: https://github.com/renlliang3/sk-neutrino-periodicityhttps:

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Generalized Lomb-Scargle — 19× in this paper
• Core — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Bayesian Framework — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Box-Fitting Least Squares — 3× in this paper
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Harmonic Analysis of Variance — 3× in this paper
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Arbiter — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Bayesian Information Criterion — 2× in this paper
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Heteroscedasticity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quadratic Mutual Entropy — 2× in this paper
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• False Alarm Probability — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generalized Extreme Value — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quadratic Mutual Information — 1× in this paper
• Signal Residue — 1× in this paper
• Temporal Correlations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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