Neutrino mass hierarchy
Figure depicting the mass hierarchy of neutrinos with two possible mass ordering, normal mass ordering, and inverted mass ordering.
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taunu/.style={draw,fill,rectangle,color=green,text=black,minimum height=1mm,font=\scriptsize},
enu/.style={draw,fill,rectangle,color=blue!60,text=black,minimum height=1mm,font=\scriptsize},
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\node[opacity=0] (bummy) {};
\node[munu,minimum width=7mm, right=1mm of bummy] (twomu) {};
\node[taunu,minimum width=6mm,right=0mm of twomu] (twotau) {};
\node[enu,minimum width=7mm,right=0mm of twotau] (twoe) {};
\node{ \tikzpictext};
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mutwo/.pic = {
\node[opacity=0] (eummy) {};
\node[munu,minimum width=12mm,right=1mm of eummy] (threemu) {};
\node[taunu,minimum width=4mm,right=0mm of threemu] (threetau) {};
\node[enu,minimum width=4mm,right=0mm of threetau] (threee) {};
\node{ \tikzpictext};
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\node[opacity=0] (dummy) {};
\node[munu,minimum height=2mm,minimum width=2mm,right=1mm of dummy] (onemu) {};
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\node[enu,minimum width=10mm,right=0mm of onetau] (onee) {};
\node{\tikzpictext};
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\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[->,thick] (-1,0) -- node [sloped, above] {$m^2$} (-1,3) ;
\pic ["$\nu_3$"] (normuone) at (0,3) {muone};
\pic ["$\nu_1$"] (normutwo) at (0,1) {mutwo};
\pic ["$\nu_2$"] (normuthree) at (0,0) {muthree};
\pic ["$\nu_2$"] (invmutwo) at (5,3) {mutwo};
\pic ["$\nu_1$"] (invmuone) at (5,2) {muone};
\pic ["$\nu_3$"] (invmuthree) at (5,0) {muthree};
\draw[dimen] (1,.2) --(1,0.8) node [right=2mm] {$\Delta m^2_{\text{sol}}$};
\draw[dimen] (1,1.2) --(1,2.8) node [right=2mm]{$\Delta m^2_{\text{atm}}$};
\draw[dimen] (6,.2) --(6,1.8) node [right=2mm] {$\Delta m^2_{\text{atm}}$};
\draw[dimen] (6,2.2) --(6,2.8) node [right=2mm]{$\Delta m^2_{\text{sol}}$};
\node[munu] (mulab) at (3.6,1) [label=below:$\nu_\mu$] {}; %}{$\nu_\mu$};
\node[taunu] (taulab) at (3.6,2) [label=below:$\nu_\tau$] {};
\node[enu] (elab) at (3.6,3) [label=below:$\nu_e$] {};
\node (norhie) at (1.2,4) {Normal Hierarchy};
\node (invhie) at (6.5,4) {Inverted Hierarchy};
\end{tikzpicture}