Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect with flavor-changing neutrino interactions
- 15 August 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 44 (4) , R935-R938
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.44.r935
Abstract
We consider the effect that flavor-nondiagonal neutrino interactions with matter have on the resonant oscillations. It is shown that, even in the absence of mixing in a vacuum, an efficient conversion of the electron neutrinos from the Sun to another flavor can result if the strength of this interaction is . We show how this can be implemented in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with -parity breaking. Here, the -violating couplings induce neutrino masses, mixings, and the flavor-nondiagonal neutrino interactions that can provide a Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein-like solution to the solar-neutrino problem even for negligible vacuum mixings.
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