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Dissipative neutrino oscillations in randomly fluctuating matter

F. Benatti

R. Floreanini

  • Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy

Phys. Rev. D 71, 013003 – Published 6 January, 2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.013003

Abstract

The generalized dynamics describing the propagation of neutrinos in randomly fluctuating media is analyzed: It takes into account matter-induced, decoherence phenomena that go beyond the standard Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) effect. A widely adopted density fluctuation pattern is found to be physically untenable: A more general model needs to be instead considered, leading to flavor changing effective neutrino-matter interactions. They induce new, dissipative effects that modify the neutrino oscillation pattern in a way amenable to a direct experimental analysis.

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