Derivation of the formalism for neutrino matter oscillations from the neutrino relativistic field equations

1 April 1988

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 37 (7) , 1935-1941
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.37.1935

Abstract

We derive the standard formalism of Mikheyev, Smirnov, and Wolfenstein for the oscillation of neutrinos in matter taking into account the Lorentz and second-quantized structure of the neutrino fields. We consider neutrinos with Dirac or Majorana masses.

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