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Gravitational effects on neutrino decoherence in Lense-Thirring metric

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-25 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We analyze gravity effects on neutrino wave packet decoherence. As a specific example, we consider the gravitational field of a spinning spherical body described by the Lense-Thirring metric. By working in the weak-field limit and employing Gaussian wave packets, we show that the characteristic coherence length of neutrino oscillation processes is nontrivially affected, the corrections being dependent on the mass and angular velocity of the gravity source. Possible experimental implications are finally discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2110.00971,
  title  = {Gravitational effects on neutrino decoherence in Lense-Thirring metric},
  author = {Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano and Massimo Blasone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.00971},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures