Flavor Oscillations in Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-02-03 v2
Abstract
Neutrino flavor oscillations are discussed in terms of two coupled Dirac fields. The interacting Lagrangian is diagonalized to obtain the exact eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Flavor wave functions are then derived directly from the quantized neutrino fields. Probability density obtained by squaring these wave functions upon taking into account the neutrino chirality are in agreement with the standard neutrino oscillation probabilities.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9609476,
title = {Flavor Oscillations in Field Theory},
author = {Elisabetta Sassaroli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9609476},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages, no figures, RevTex. The theoretical discussion has been improved to take into account the neutrino chirality. Agreement with the standard treatment of neutrino flavor oscillations is obtained. Some parts of the paper have been revised