Neutrino oscillations in curved spacetime: an heuristic treatment

Preprint

26 October 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9610494

Abstract

We discuss neutrino oscillations in curved spacetime. Our heuristic approach can accomodate matter effects and gravitational contributions to neutrino spin precession in the presence of a magnetic field. By way of illustration, we perform explicit calculations in the Schwarzschild geometry. In this case, gravitational effects on neutrino oscillations are intimately related to the redshift. We discuss how spacetime curvature could affect the resonance position and adiabaticity of matter-enhanced neutrino flavor conversion.

Keywords

OSCILLATIONS IN CURVED
NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS
HEURISTIC TREATMENT
CURVED SPACETIME
GRAVITATIONAL
SPACETIME
GEOMETRY

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Version 1, 1996-10-26, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review D, 55 (12), 7960.

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