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Monte Carlo neutrino oscillations

James P. Kneller^1,2,* and Gail C. McLaughlin^1,†

¹Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA
²School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

^*Electronic address: Kneller@physics.umn.edu
^†Electronic address: Gail_McLaughlin@ncsu.edu

Phys. Rev. D 73, 056003 – Published 29 March, 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.056003

Abstract

We demonstrate that the effects of matter upon neutrino propagation may be recast as the scattering of the initial neutrino wave function. Exchanging the differential, Schrodinger equation for an integral equation for the scattering matrix $S$ permits a Monte Carlo method for the computation of $S$ that removes many of the numerical difficulties associated with direct integration techniques.

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