Neutrino oscillations as a single Feynman diagram

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21670%2F24%3A00381084" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21670/24:00381084 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ad208e" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ad208e</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ad208e" target="_blank" >10.1088/1361-6471/ad208e</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Neutrino oscillations as a single Feynman diagram

Original language description

We propose an approach to neutrino oscillations in vacuum, based on quantum field theory (QFT). The neutrino emission and detection are identified with the charged-current vertices of a single second-order Feynman diagram for the underlying process, enclosing neutrino propagation between these two points. The key point of the presented approach is the definition of the space-time setup typical for neutrino oscillation experiments, implying macroscopically large but finite volumes of the source and detector separated by a sufficiently large distance L. We derive an L-dependent master formula for the charged lepton production rate, which provides the QFT basis for the analysis of neutrino oscillations. This formula depends on the underlying process and is not reducible to the conventional approach resorting to the concept of neutrino oscillation probability, which originates from non-relativistic quantum mechanics. We demonstrate that for some particular choice of the underlying process the derived master formula approximately coincides with the conventional one under some assumptions. In support to presented approach we show that it provides the QFT framework not only for neutrino-neutrino but also neutrino-antineutrino oscillations. It is also argued that the proposed formalism allows us to consistently incorporate medium effects, when neutrinos oscillate in dense matter.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10303 - Particles and field physics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000766" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000766: Engineering applications of microworld physics</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

ISSN

0954-3899

e-ISSN

1361-6471

Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001159794200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85184897073