Resonant oscillations of massless neutrinos in matter

Details Resonant oscillations of massless neutrinos in matter Resonant oscillations of massless neutrinos in matter

Dec 1987

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Physics Letters B, Volume 199, Issue 3, p. 432-436.

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Oscillations of neutrinos propagating in matter do not require that neutrinos are massive, at a fundamental level. Even if neutrinos are massless as a consequence of an exact symmetry - such as total lepton number - they can oscillate into one another if the weak interaction has a small non-universal component, whose existence would signal physics beyond the standard model. The experimental constraints and theoretical plausibility of the mechanism are discussed. Coherent neutrino and antineutrino scattering could substantially affect the late thermal phase neutrino signal from a supernova explosion.
I am thankful to Peter Rosen and Lincoln Wolfenstein, organizers of the Workshop on Solar and Astrophysical neutrinos, for the hospitality extended to me Aspen, where this work was partially done. I am also sincerely indebted to Sergey Petcov for help in deriving the evolution equation, Joe Schechter and Lincoln Wolfenstein for valuable discussions and to James Wilson and George Fuller for discussions on the Dynamics of supernovae.

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