Comment on "Gravitationally Induced Neutrino-Oscillation Phases"
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We critically examine the recent claim (gr-qc/9603008) of a ``new effect'' of gravitationally induced quantum mechanical phases in neutrino oscillations. A straightforward exercise in the Schwarzschild coordinates appropriate to a spherically symmetric non-rotating star shows that, although there is a general relativistic effect of the star's gravity on neutrino oscillations, it is not of the form claimed, and is too small to be measured.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9605074,
title = {Comment on "Gravitationally Induced Neutrino-Oscillation Phases"},
author = {Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Salman Habib and Emil Mottola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9605074},
year = {2007}
}
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