Mass Varying Neutrino Oscillation in Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-10-17 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We investigate how matter density affects neutrino oscillations by considering a mass-varying neutrino scenario where the neutrino mass depends on a scalar field. This scalar field is non-minimally coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) invariant, causing its profile to be implicitly influenced by the surrounding matter distribution. Using data from solar neutrino experiments, we derive constraints on the model parameters, providing new insights into the properties of mass-varying neutrino within the Gauss-Bonnet scalar-tensor framework.
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@article{arxiv.2510.00704,
title = {Mass Varying Neutrino Oscillation in Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity},
author = {H. Mohseni Sadjadi and H. Yazdani Ahmadabadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00704},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 6 figures, typos corrected