Gravitational effects on the neutrino oscillation

Fornengo, N.; Giunti, C.; Kim, C.W.; Song, J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1895

Gravitational effects on the neutrino oscillation

N. Fornengo
(
- Johns Hopkins U. and
- INFN, Turin
)
,
C. Giunti
(
- INFN, Turin and
- Turin U.
)
,
C.W. Kim
(
- Johns Hopkins U.
)
,
J. Song
(
- Johns Hopkins U.
)

Nov, 1996

15 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 56 (1997) 1895-1902

e-Print:

hep-ph/9611231 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1895

Report number:

JHU-TIPAC-96026,
DFTT-72-96

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Abstract: (arXiv)

The propagation of neutrinos in a gravitational field is studied. A method of calculating a covariant quantum-mechanical phase in a curved space-time is presented. The result is used to calculate gravitational effects on the neutrino oscillation in the presence of a gravitational field. We restrict our discussion to the case of the Schwartzschild metric. Specifically, the cases of the radial propagation and the non-radial propagation are considered. A possible application to gravitational lensing of neutrinos is also suggested.

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15 pages, RevTex, No figures. Minor modifications and some typos corrected

14.60.Lm
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95.85.Ry
neutrino: oscillation
gravitation: effect
space-time: Schwarzschild
gravitation: lens

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