On the treatment of neutrino oscillations without resort to weak eigenstates
May 21, 199319 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 48 (1993) 4310-4317
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9305276 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- JHU-TIPAC-930011,
- DFTT-22-93
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Abstract:
We discuss neutrino oscillations in the framework of the quantum field theory without introducing the concept of neutrino weak eigenstates. The external particles are described by wave packets and the different mass eigenstate neutrinos propagate between the production and detection interactions, which are macroscopically localized in space-time. The time-averaged cross section, which is the measurable quantity in the usual experimental setting, is calculated. It is shown that only in the extremely relativistic limit the usual quantum mechanical oscillation probability can be factored out of the cross section.- neutrino: oscillation
- neutrino: mass
- mass: neutrino
- neutrino: interaction
- interaction: neutrino
- amplitude analysis
- particle: semileptonic decay
- semileptonic decay: particle
- cross section
- saddle-point approximation
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