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Gravitational waves and neutrino oscillations in Chern-Simons axion gravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-01-16 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the modifications in the neutrino flavor oscillations under the influence of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), in a scenario in which General Relativity is modified by an additional Chern-Simons (CS) term. Assuming that the dark matter halo is in the form of axions, the CS coupling modifies the pattern of the neutrino flavor oscillations at Earth up to a total suppression in some frequency range. At the same time, the SGWB in the halo could stimulate the axion decay into gravitons over a narrow frequency range, leading to a potentially detectable resonance peak in the enhanced SGWB strain. A consistent picture would require these features to potentially show up in neutrino detection from supernovae, gravitational wave detectors, and experiments aimed at the search for axions in the Milky Way halo.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08067,
  title  = {Gravitational waves and neutrino oscillations in Chern-Simons axion gravity},
  author = {Gaetano Lambiase and Leonardo Mastrototaro and Luca Visinelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08067},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

28 pages, 3 figures. Matches the version published on JCAP