Matter-Enhanced Neutrino Oscillations in the Quasi-Adiabatic Limit
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We introduce simple analytic expressions for the neutrino survival probability in media valid in the quasi-adiabatic limit. These expressions provide a quick but accurate alternative to numerical solution of the neutrino propagation equations for the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect. They can also be used to extract information about the density scale height from the neutrino data. As an example, we present calculations for solar neutrinos.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9712390,
title = {Matter-Enhanced Neutrino Oscillations in the Quasi-Adiabatic Limit},
author = {A. B. Balantekin and J. F. Beacom and J. M. Fetter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9712390},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Submitted to Physics Letters B. 8 pages of Revtex, 5 figures. This paper is also available at http://nucth.physics.wisc.edu/preprints/