Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-05-18
Phys. Rev.D82:013006,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, v.2: discussions added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.013006
In charged current weak interaction processes, neutrinos are produced in an entangled state with the charged lepton. This correlated state is disentangled by the measurement of the charged lepton in a detector at the production site. We study the dynamical aspects of disentanglement, propagation and detection, in particular the conditions under which the disentangled state is a coherent superposition of mass eigenstates. The appearance and disappearance far-detection processes are described from the time evolution of this disentangled "collapsed" state. The familiar quantum mechanical interpretation and factorization of the detection rate emerges when the quantum state is disentangled on time scales \emph{much shorter} than the inverse oscillation frequency, in which case the final detection rate factorizes in terms of the usual quantum mechanical transition probability provided the final density of states is insensitive to the neutrino energy difference. We suggest \emph{possible} corrections for short-baseline experiments. If the charged lepton is unobserved, neutrino oscillations and coherence are described in terms of a reduced density matrix obtained by tracing out an un-observed charged lepton. The diagonal elements in the mass basis describe the production of mass eigenstates whereas the off diagonal ones provide a measure of coherence. It is shown that coherences are of the same order of the diagonal terms on time scales up to the inverse oscillation frequency, beyond which the coherences oscillate as a result of the interference between mass eigenstates.
Boyanovsky Daniel
Holman Richard
Hutasoit Jimmy A.
Wu Jun
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