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MSW-like Enhancements without Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study the effects of a scalar field, coupled only to neutrinos, on oscillations among weak interaction current eigenstates. The effect of a real scalar field appears as effective masses for the neutrino mass eigenstates, the same for \nbar\nbar as for \n\n. Under some conditions, this can lead to a vanishing of δm2\delta m^2, giving rise to MSW-like effects. We discuss some examples and show that it is possible to resolve the apparent discrepancy in spectra required by r-process nucleosynthesis in the mantles of supernovae and by Solar neutrino solutions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9610317,
  title  = {MSW-like Enhancements without Matter},
  author = {G. J. Stephenson and T. Goldman and B. H. J. McKellar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9610317},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, latex, 1 figure