Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-03-04
Nucl.Phys.B805:356-376,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
31 pages; A discussion on "coherent broadening" is added
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.07.028
For cosmic neutrinos we study the conditions and the effects of the coherence loss as well as coherent broadening of the spectrum. We evaluate the width of the neutrino wavepacket produced by charged particles under various circumstances: in an interaction-free environment, in a radiation-dominated medium (typical of the sources of the gamma ray bursts) and in the presence of a magnetic field. The effect of the magnetic field on the wavepacket size appears to be more important than the scattering. If the magnetic field at the source is larger than $\sim$10 Gauss, the coherence of neutrinos will be lost while traveling over cosmological distances. Various applications of these results have been considered. We find that for large magnetic fields ($B> 10^9$ Gauss) and high energies ($E_\nu>{\rm PeV}$), "coherent broadening" can modify the energy spectrum of neutrinos. In the coherent case, averaging out the oscillatory terms of the probabilities does not induce any statistical uncertainty beyond what expected in the absence of these terms. A deviation from the standard quantum mechanics that preserves average energy and unitarity cannot alter the picture.
Farzan Yasaman
Smirnov Alexei Yu.
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